The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-10-07
DETAILS Of
Los ANGELES
TIMES OUTRAGE
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OIoWus IhaJ gathered early say they
saw many men fall back from the win
dows into the flames. Others leaped
and were injured.
The editorial rooms were on the
third floor, but it is believed the great
er part of the men on this floor es-
capped death.
The force Of the explosion was ex-
erted on the mechanical departments
of the paper and most of the dead and
injured were members Of those de-
partments. At 2 o'clock. % injured
had been taken to the receiving hos
pital,
Thomas p. Smith, lad" compositor
working on the second floor when the
explosion occurred, gives the follow
ing version:
There were at least so men at
work on my floor, and we all made
for the door. / believe that half of
this number may not have escaped.
THE explosion appeared to be in
the basement or on the first floor of
the new six story building.
Flames followed the explosion inn
mediately. When l reached the side
walk the whole front was ablaze, both
the old and the new buildings"
Two Suspects Are Caught by Police.
Two men are said to have been ar
rested Immediately after the explo-
sion, one of them as he was going
through the railroad tunnel a block
north of the Times.
In the Herald office half a block
away the explosion shook the entire
eight story building, and the news
papermen at work on the ground floor
rushed out and saw the Times build.
ing wrapped in flames.
The first explosion occurred in an
alleyway which separated the third
and seven story parts of the building.
The force of this was borne by the
mechanical department Several limo
| type machines were on this floor. Fri
day night, being an unusually heavy
period at the Times, something over
thirty men were at work on the limo
types and about fifty in the lad" sec
ton. Because of the fact that so
many extra men were at work it will
probably be several days before all
are accounted for.
There were three distinct explosions.
The Times plant was run by cleo
tricity throughout, and as far as is
known there was no steam boiler of
any kind in the building.
The entire building was Quilted at
1:45 and but two walls were stand
ing.
Harvey Coleman, one of the crew
of seven photo engravers quartered on
the sixth floor of the building, tells
a thrilling tale of death narrowly
averted, a moment of suspense in
which it was thought that newcomer
of the force had met death, and then
of thrilling escape across adjacent
roofs, spanning an alley with ladder
and then safety for all.
Says Coleman:
1--WE were working at about one
o'clock, when suddenly there came a
roar that nearly hurled us to the floor,
followed by a glare of light as the
flames shot through the windows. We
realized Immediately that the whole
building was a mass of flames and
that the only thing to do was to try to
escape. Some of the men started to
rush for their clothes, but then it was
remembered that the room was stock
ed with ether and guncotton, so we
rushed down stairs as we were. AT
the third floor we crawled on to an
adjoining roof. Then in our flight
we came to an alley, and for time il
seemed as though there was no escape
But the inmates of the rooming house
which adjoined the office, managed tC
throw ladder across the gap and we
went over safely. Then we realized
that one of the boys, Bruce, a new
conner, was not with us. We started
to go back for him, when he Joined us
! he had come nand over hand on &
wire from the building"
LOS ANGELES, October 1-Manag
ing Editor Harry E. Andrews of the
Times at o'clock this morning said;
THE Times building was destroyed
by dynamite this morning by the enc
mics of the paper The Times itsel
cannot be destroyed. 1t will soon be
reissued from it's auxiliary plant anC
will fight its battles to the end.
THE horror of the loss of life anC
manning men precludes furthel
statement at this hour.
General Otis, owner of the Times
will arrive here from Mexico this aft
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