The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-03

N or tnlS clty, stated tonight that w. < J. Burns, formerly connected with -< > the San Francisco graft prosecu- < < ton and now head of the secret Y < service of the American Bankers Y < association, and M. J. Moran of the < < United States secret service, in- Y < spected the ruins of the Times % -< and declared it to be their opinion < \ that the building was destroyed < < by a charge of nitroglycerine. <
 
 Los Angeles, Cal, October 2.--Three hundred men digging increasingly for 30 hours into the debris of the wrecked Times building have unearthed five of the 19 bodies in the ruins. The shovel brigade is still at work tonight aided by a huge railway crane and derrick, which is lifting out the remains of heavy steel. In the meantime the po- lice are guarding the homes of Gen. Times, and General Manager Harry Chandler. Guards also are watching over the plants of several concerns re- gently involved in strikes.
 But three arrests have been made since the explosion Saturday morning and one since last night, when an all legged anarchist, Martin Eagan, was taken into custody. In the hope of securing information as to the perpe- trators of the outrage, Mayor Alexan- der increased the citys offer of reward today to $10.000.
 This, together with the offers of To- cal newspapers and labor organizations. ', data imitation to assist in the search for tn e criminals, raises the total amount of proffered rewards to s1S,500. The city's offer is intended to tempt anyone hay ing Knowledge of a dynamite conspir- acy to divulge the secret. There are no conditions.
 As no trace of those previously re- corded as missing has been found, it is concluded they are dead.
 The dead:
 Churchill Harvey Elder. assistant city editor: died at Clara Barton hos pital at 7:30 o'clock yesterday.
 Harry L. Crane, assistant telegraph editor, 3S. married, one child; body not recovered.
 ried two children; body not recov- cred.
 ]. Wesley Reaves, stenographer, mar ried body recovered. J. c. Galiher, 45, linotype operator, married, five children; body not recov- cred.
 w. G. Tunstall, 45, linotype operator, married; body not recovered.
 Fred Llewellyn, 45, linotype operator, married body not recovered.
 Grant Moore, AZ, machinist married; body not recovered
 Edward Wasson, 35, printer, married; body not recovered.
 Elmer Brink, 25, linotype operator, married; body not recovered.
 Eugene Caress, 35, linotype operator, married one child; body not recovered. Don E. Johnson, 36, linotype opera tor, married; body not recovered.
 Ernest Jordan, 32 linotype operator, married, one child; body not recovered. Frank Underwood, 43 printer, mar ried one child body not recovered.
 Charles Gulliver, 35, compositor, mar ried; body not recovered.
 Carl Salada, 32. linotype operator; body not recovered.
 Charles Haggerty, pressman; body not recovered.
 Howard Cordaway, linotype operator; body not. recovered.
 Harry Flynn, linotype operator; body not recovered.
 Unidentified:
 Employe, went down with composing room floor.
 The body of J. Wesley Reaves. secre- tary to Harry Chandler, is the identified one recovered today. Identity in his case was established more by the place in which 1t was found than by any evidence on the body itself It was burned into fragments and so were the four other bodies taken out today.
 The first body was found shortly after o'clock this morning and between that time and 730 o'clock three more were recovered, all burned beyond human sem blance. One of the bodies is supposed to be that of Howard Cordaway, young stereoptyper, who was caught with many of the other victims on the stairs near the front of the building. \ Reaves' body was found lying behind [ the warped frame of a typewriter, and the remains of his chiefs desk, down in the cellar under what was once the gen seral managers office.
 Mrs. Elder Paints
 Mrs Churchill Harvey Elder, wife of the night editor, who died of his burns and injuries yesterday, arrived here from San Francisco and shortly afterward col lapsed from the strain under which she had labored since learning of the catas- trOpne. Sne IS III a SeTlOuS coluilioI tonight John Howard, Jr.. son of one of the linotype operators, whose body is believed to be in the ruins, also collapsed today. Since the morning of the ex- plosion he had been watching the ruins and waiting for the shovel men to work their way to the body.
 The inquest will be held Tuesday. Al that time the committee of dynamite ex' perts and engineers appointed by Chief of Police Galloway to investigate the wreckage in an effort to learn the char acter of the explosive used, will report their findings. Little in the way of evi- dence that might lead to the discovery of clews has been found. Detectives have spent many hours Investigating al the home of F. J. Zeehandelaar. secre- tarv of the Merchants' and Manufact- urers association, but nothing tangible has been discovered.
 Remarkable Escapes
 Among the remarkable escaped chroni- c,ed since the explosion and Ire were
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