Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-10-05
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4 NEWSPAPER
Plant Of the Los Angeles Times
Reduced to Ruins
MANY LIVES LOST IN WRECK

MANY LIVES LOST IN WRECK
Internal Machine Later Found at Home
of General Otis, Who Has For
Twenty Years Been Waging War
With Union Labor-Another For
Secretary OF Merchants Association,
Also Opponent of Unionism
Los Angeles. Cal, Oct. Am at
tempt to destroy the residence OF
General Harrison G Otis, publisher
OF the Los Angeles Times, by means
of an internal machine, was made
after an explosion which. an hour af-
ter midnight, caused great loss OF
life and destroyed the buildings and
plant Of The Times and a suspected
effort to blow up the auxiliary plant
Of that paper. A powerful Internal
machine was also found in the resi-
dence of Secretary Zeehaidelaar, of
the Merchants and Manufacturers
association
General Otis, who is Oh the way
home from Mexico, and the other re-
sponsible heads of The Times, I'M
eQuivCcally charge The Times build
ing disaster and the narrowly averted
attempts at further destruction of life
and property to labor union sources.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor repudiate the accusation
and offer all aid in their power to de-
tect the culprits.
Three arrests have been made since
the explosion One of the suspects is
an alleged anarchist, Martin Eagan
In the hope Of obtaining information
as to the perpetrators of the outrage,
Mayor Alexander increased the city's
offer of reward to $40, 900.
This, together with the efforts of
! local newspapers and labor Organiza-
! tons, whose leaders have announced
! determination 70 assist in the search
for the criminals, raises the total
| amount Of rewards to SIS, 500. There
are no conditions.
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with the Typographical union and The
Times becoming a non union paper,
Otis has fought uniOnism with every
resource in his command He has
been ably seconded in this fight by
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
ISOLATION, whose secretary was the
| object of frustrated dynamiting
The succession of tragic events and
| the rumOrs Of other attempted out
| RACES set the pOpulace of Los Angeles
in state of mind bordering on panic
Hundreds of policemen and detectives
are busy in every direction running
down clues and endeavoring to find the
perpetrators Of the crimes.
Mayor Alexander and the city coun-
Gil, meeting with other city officers
and labor union leaders, agreed to call
off the union labor parade planned for
tonight as a demonstration against
local conditions alleged to be hostile
to the interests of union labor
The death list Of The Times disaster
will probably total nineteen. There
are five known dead and fourteen miss
| ing, whose bodies probably lie in the
smoking ruins Of The Times building.
The original suspicion of the police
that The Times building disaster was
! due to heavy charge of a high ex
! plOsiVe was circumstantially con-
| firmed by the finding of the other
i bombs, and the statements of those
| persons in the building or nearby at
| the time of the explosion. 1t is also
| almost certain that the explosion &C.
CURED in narrow alley which sep
arated the two buildings occupied by
The Times.
The building in which The Times
was housed was Of stone and brick
! Tie American Engraving company and
| American Electrical company. both
subsidiary companies of The Times
Mirror Printing company, were housed
in the building. The financial loss is
estimated at $3.50 900, with insurance
of 1928 900.
The dead and missing come princi
pally from the composing room, which
was directly above the spot where the
explosion occurred.