The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-03
S1S,5OO REWARD.
FOR ANY CLUE TO
DYNAM|TERS
Searching for Bodies in Wreck
Gage at Los Angeles
AN ANARCHIST ARRESTED
Police Guard Homes Of General Otis
and Business Manager of the
AN ANARCHIST ARRESTED

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. ga large
force of workmen, after digging for
30 hours into the debris of the Times
building, wrecked by an explosion on
Saturday morning, have unearthed
FIVE of the 10 bodies buried in the ru-
ms. The men are still at work, aid
ed by a huge railway crane and der
rick which is lifting out the masses
of heavy steel In the meantime the
police are guarding the homes of Gen
Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor of the
Times and of Gen Manager Harry
Chandler Guards are also watching
over the plants of several concerns
involved in strikes.
Three arrests have been made
since the explosion. One of the sus-
poets is an alleged anarchist, Martin
| A. Egan In the hope of securing in
formation as to the perpetrators OF
the outrage, Mayor Alexander in
creased the clty's offer of reward to-
| day to $4,000.
This, with the offers of local news
papers and labor organizations whose
! leaders have announced n determine
ton to assist in the search for the
I criminals. raises the total amount OF
rewards to S1S,500. The city's offer
is intended to tempt anyone having
knowledge OF a dynamite conspiracy
Ito divuge the secret. There are no
conditions
II The body of J. Wesley Reaves, sec
rotary to Harry Chandler, Is one Of
those recovered today. 1t was burn
led into fragments and so were the
four other bodies taken out today
| One OF the bodies Is supposed to be
that OF Howard Cordaway. young
stereotyper. Mrs. Elder. wife of the
night editor, who died of his burns
and injuries yesterday, arrived here
| from San Francisco, and shortly af-
forwards collapsed. She is In ser
ious condition tonight. John Howard
Jr.. son Of one of the lineotypers,
whose body is believed to be in the
ruins, also collapsed. Since the ex-
plosion, he has been watching the
ruins The inquest will be held on
Tuesday At that time the commit
tee OF dynamite experts and engin-
GERS appointed by Chief OF Police Gal
loway to investigate the werckage In
an effort to learn the character OF
the explosives used. will report their
findings. Little evidence has been
found. Detectives have spent hours
investigating at the home Of F. J..
Zeehandelaar, secretary of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers associa-
ton, near whose home a bomb was
found. but nothing tangible has been
discovered
II Among the remarkable escapes In
the explosion and fire were those Of
George w. Long and his force OF en-
gravers. They were on the sixth
floor OF the building. In the few sec
onds between the explosion and the
development Of the building In flames
they made their way to safety while
the linotype men and printers on the
second floor we're trapped by fire and
persisted Only one OF the engraving
force was hurt. He has a few bruis-
es on one hand.
Similar escapes were made by
Mark Bentley chief pressman, and
his associates. Bentley and his men
were preparing to run OF a section
of the Sunday paper when the explos-
ion occurred and the floors overhead
fell. The press room was filled with
smoke and dust. Flames blocked all
the doorways and ventilators. II
seemed as II they we're doomed to die
in the basement when one OF the men
remembered a hole had been cut near
the sidewalk for some temporary pur-
pose. The pressmen made n rush for
this exit and found Il. despite the
smoke and crawled TO safety. Most
OF those who escaped by other exits
and by jumping from windows, were
only slightly injured.
II Charles Lovelace, suburban news
editor. one OF the few In the editorial
room at the ,ime OF the explosion,
will be confined to hospital for
many months. He was horribly burn
cd.
The FIRST explosion which wrecked
large part OF The building. occurred
In n Mind alley separating two sec
tons ~ he building. At i.07 o'clock
more than 30 men we're at work In
tho compc' ne room. In less than
n Wllult 1. ST. were lNTtt OAhtl w
plosons In various parts of the build.
ing. One In the basement seemed to
rack the whole building. In q nom.
ent the structure was In naE'cs.
The main loss OF life occurred In
an elevator shaft leading from the
composing room TO the basement.
Linotype operators and advertising
men piled down the shaft one after
another Before the firemen could
arrive with life nets escape was shut
on from the upper floors. 1mprlson.
ed men crowded to the windows and
freescapes with flames raging about
them.
III Most OF the editorial force had gone
home for the night. Churchill Har.
vey Elder, the assistant city editor
Harry L. Crane. assistant telegraph
editor and William Tribbitt. a copy
reader we're still on duty. Harry II
Andrews. managing editor was on his
way home. For the first night In
many years Harry Chandler. assis
tant general manager OF the paper
was not IN his ONCE at that hour. He
had gone to catch an early train on
y his way % meet Gen Otis, who IN re-
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