Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-10-05
LABOR UNIONS ARE BLAMED.
Unknown Enemies Blow up Los Angeles
Times Building; Many Perish in Ruins.

Times Building; Many Perish in Ruins.
Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 1.---Ap
attempt to destroy the residence
General Harrison Gray Otis. pub
Usher Of The Los Angeles Times,
by means of an internal machine
was made late today, following al
explosion which carly today caus-
ed great loss of life and destroyed
the buildings and plant Of The
Times, entailing a loss of nearly
half million dollars, and sus j.
pected effort to blow up the auxi-
liary plant of the paper. A pow
erful internal machine was also
found today i'll the residence OF
Secretary Zeehaade!aar, of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION.
General Otis, who is on his way
home from Mexico, and the OF 81
responsible heads of The Tini s
unequivoeH'.T charge The Tin IS
building anu-.. or and the narr, .
ly avarted attempts at fu'tE, it,
structlon Of life and property tt
labor union sources
With equal emphasis til lead
ers of union labor re~udlata the
accusations and otf9r al; aid il
their power TO detect the culprlts.
This afternoon The Times made
public the following telegl am from
General Otis:
"Your wire with its terrible
news reached me this morning. ]
am amazed at the desperation
the criminal conspirators iii de-
stroying The Times building and
slaying its loyal defenders, whose
loss I deeply deplore; but The
Times itself will live on, bravely
defending the vital and essential
principle of industrial freedom
under law which must yet trl-
umph in the eptlre nation.
(Signed)
HARRISON GRAY OTIS"
For twenty years, following q
quarrel with the typographical
union and the changing of The
Times to a non.union paper, Gen.
eral Otis has foughtunionism with
every resource in his command.
He has been ably seconded in the
fight by the Merchants and Man.
ufacturers Association, whose Sec
retary was the object of frustrated
dynamiting today.
Feeling ran high throughout
the city during the day over The
Times disaster and was augment
ed by the discovery that q dyna
mite bomb had been found under
the residence of Secretary Zeehan-
delaar. The public reached 8
state of alarm and CONSERVATION
when the attempt to blow uE
General Otls' residence became
known.
The Otis home, known as "The
Bivouac," stands on Wiltshire
Avenue in the most fashionable
quarter of the city, After the
finding of the internal machine al
the Zeehandelaar residence, De
tective Rice was sent to "The
Bivouac" to search the premises
Aided by Charles Flocker, tb'
gardener, he found a suit cast
hidden in bunch Of vines under
bay window on the side of thu
house fronting West Lake park
Detective Rice telephoned Chic
of Police Galloway, VINO went i'm
mediately to General Otis house
The officers examined the sui
case.- Chief of Police Galloway
waited to take it to the police
station without opening it.
Rice insisted on opening it there
and finally stuck knife through
the side Of the case. A buzz O
mechanism was heard and smok'
oozed out. Convinced that tn
suit case contained explosives
Chief Galloway hurled it as far a
he could. 1t landed against tn
curbstone Oh the opposite side o
the street running along the park
immediately there was lou'
explosion, and the suit case wa
shattered into a thousand pieces
A hole was torn in the ground an
the curbstone was ripped out fo
some distance.
In the house at the time wer
Mrs. Marion Otis Chandler, wifi
of the assistant general manage