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Show LOS ANGELES -TIMES BUILDING BLOWN . OP AND UNKNOWN NUMBER HILLED Immediately Following the Explosion, Flames Burst (lit and the Imprisoned Editors and Printers Are Burned to Death'-Alany Jump From Windows and Are Crushed to the Pavements. . had no boilers to explode; there was no gasoline in the placi exceptlong a small can or two, in the composing room It Is true that the building was equipped with gn.s, but no explosion of gas could ho-o caused such a catastrophe "For years we have been receiving threatening letters from people who said flint the paper ought to be blown up. I have not received any such letters lately, although I have had several telephone calls within the past few weeks threatening us wlih destruction.' Chief of Police Galloway said today: to-day: "That the Times building was wrecked by dynamite tveins certain from all my mean can learn Tbout 10 patrolmen and most of the. detectives detec-tives were on duty at the lire. We have found some things that seem to us to point t the- authors of the calamity. Whether they will end In any real result it la Impossible to tell now, but 1 do know that whether they do or not the police will keep at it without rest until the whole matter is laid bare '' Union Parade Called Off. Major Alexander, the city council, the city attorney, chief of police and other municipal officials, and officials of tho various labor couuclls, today mutually agreed to call off the scheduled sched-uled union parade which was to have been held in the city next Monday. The parade was arrunged by the unions for the purpeso of protesting against Ihg recent anii-plcketlng ordinance or-dinance an'd other alleged autl-un'on lalor conditions existing In the city. It was agreed that such an asaemblq, during the present excitement, would be unwise. Bomb Is Found. Additional exclieiueni was caused during tho forenoon by news that a dynam'le bomp had been found under the residence of Secretary .1. F. Zee-handeln.ir Zee-handeln.ir of the Merchants & Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association, on Garland street. Mr. Zechandclaar, as secretary secre-tary of the Merchants & Manufacturers' Manufac-turers' association, has been very active ac-tive In conjunction with the Los Angeles An-geles Times in opposition to the labor la-bor unions, and much personal animosity ani-mosity has been aroused against hint among the labor men. , The bomb was found by Special Officer I Jendrlcrson, who reported to police headquarters, and Chief . i.f Police Calloway dispatched a detail of officers to the scene. The bomb, which was of clockwork design, couslstea of fifteen sticks of dynamite attached to a fuse connected connect-ed with the clockwork. It was taken by the police to a vacant lot In the vicinity. As soon as word of the discovery of the bomb became known, there was a general exodus of residents in the neighborhood. The police are undetermined un-determined as to what time the bomb was to have exploded. I ' A telegram was Trctivcd today by ; General Manager Chandler from General Gen-eral Otis, en route to this citv from HI Paso. The text of General Oils' telegram was not made public, bi;t Mr. Chandler said that General Otis was not at all perturbed over the de-struct'on de-struct'on of his newspaper, but, on The contrary, stated in u9ltlve terms j that the fight against the labor unions would be continued. ' The Times issued an extra, from j its press In the auxiliary ofllce at College and San Fernando streets, during the early morning hours, giving giv-ing the details of the explosion and hie. Editors Escaped Harm. Los Angeles. Olt. 1. Assistant General Gen-eral Manager c Handler of the Times had a narrow escape from death in 1 (he lire. He had Just left his ofllce i on the first door and gone to the street w hen t lie explosion occurred ! Managing Editor Andrews and City Editor Von Blop had been in their offices durlug the evening, bi;t had gone to their homes a short time before be-fore the explosion. Assistant City Editor Ellis was still on duty when the lire leaped up all around the building. He ran to the window and jumped three stories j to the pavement. His right leg was broken and he was otherwise serious- ! ly injured. None of the rcportorial staff, so far j as could be learned, were In the local room at the time of the, explosion. One man, whose name is unknown, I leaped from a second story window' and alighted on his head, breaking his neek. Two hours after the first explosion ! occurred, a dozen streams of water ! were still pouring into the crumbling stone building, from which an occa- ' sional flash of flame shot up. Hun I dred of people surrounded the build- 1 ing In all directions, held back Tor a block distant by the police-. j was estimated to be worth over $300,-000 $300,-000 and is a total loss. List of Injured. Among the Injured taken to tho receiving re-ceiving hospital were the following. MaDy others injured were taken to other hospitals: S. W, Crabill, foreman composing rooms, severe bruises. Randolph Rossi, linotype operator: Jumped from second Moor; severely Injured. Within a few minutes after the explosion ex-plosion the police arrested two men in the Boadway tunnel, two blocks north of the Times building, and they are being held for Investigation. The police hud their Arc lines stretched around the scene and reserves re-serves were soon patrolling the district dis-trict armed with riot guns, but the half-clad crowd which silently watched the flames from lchind the. fire lines was orderly and not an arrest ar-rest was made from among the crowd. List of tUt Miss'nfj. The following list of missing; furnished fur-nished by the times, have not been accounted for up 10 1:30 this morn J Ing: J. C. Galllghr. linotype operator; married, live children. W. G. Tunstall, linotype operator; married Fred Llewellyn, linotype operator; married, e.ne child Grant Moore, machinist, married, three children, Ed Wasson, printer, married Elmer Frlnk, lluol.vpe operator; married. Eugene Cares, linotype operator: married, one child I Don E. Johnson, linotype operator; married. Ernest Jordan, linotype operator; married, one child. Frank Underwood, printer; married; mar-ried; one child. J. Wesley Beaver, stenographer R. L Sawyer, telegraph operator; married, two children. Harry L. Crane, assistant telegraph editor; marrled. one child Charles Gulliver, compositor, married. mar-ried. Carl Sallida. linotype operator. j Harvey C. Elder, assistant city editor of the Times, leaped from the third story window und died in the ! hospital. Charles E. Lovelace, country editor, leaped from the , third story window and died In the hospital. J. Wesley Reaves, secretary to As slstant General Manager Chaudler; believed body In ruins. R Ix. Sawyer, telegraph operator, aged 34, married, two children; body believed to be in ruins. '" Harry L. Crane, assistant telegraph editor, married, one child; believed to" be in tho ruins. Fell Back Into the Flames. The entire force of editors and operators op-erators were at work In the telegraph room, exception Telegraph Editor R. X. Whitney. Harry L. Crane, the assistant as-sistant telegraph editor, was seen attempting at-tempting to mane his way out of the building. He was not found among the survvors. Several men were seen by spectators specta-tors to come to the upper windows a few minutes after the lire broke out I and cry for help. The ilremen could not get their ladders l quickly enough and the flames burst about them. Those at the windows were urged to jump. Many did and slighter slight-er safely; others hesitated and fell back Into the flames. Foreman Grayblll of the composing room estimates that there were about 115 men in the building. 83 of whom were in his department. He believes that twehe of his men Were killed and that the fatalities In the other departments de-partments totaled about the same number. About fifteen men were !n the stereotyping departmen, but all are believed to have made their way out. H. D. Sallada, in charge of the proof reading room, located next to the telegraph room on the third floor, had fifteen employes in his department, depart-ment, eight of whom were women. All ercaped. Another- Attempt Made. Assistant General Manager Chandler Chan-dler Is authority for the statement that an attempt was made to blow up the Times auxiliary plant, at College Col-lege and Fernando streets, was made a few minutes before the explosion occurred which destroyed the main I office nt First and Broadway. Mr. Chandler said today that one of his men had reported that, shortly before 1 o'clock this morning, two men were seen by a special officer plae'ng a ladder at the rear of their branch building and climbing to the I roof. He watched the men while thev were at work trying to effect an eti- tmucc through tho skylight. He fired at them twice w-Hh his revolver and the men fled. Mr. Chandler interprets this as further fur-ther proof that a carefull planned effort ef-fort was made last night to destroy bo'.h the Times main and branch offices. Threats Had Been Made "There Is no doubt but that the explosion ex-plosion was cnued by a charge of dynamite dy-namite placed apparently in the little blind alley In the center of the main building," 6ald Mr. Chandler. "No other agency could have caused it. There was no oil In the building; we : 1 Loa Angeles. Oct. I. Tho building and plant of tho Los Angeles Times, one t-f the best known newspapers of the routhwest of which General Harrison Gray Otis is editor and principal prin-cipal owner were destroyed by an explosion and fire shortly after 1 o'clock this morning resulting In the death of upward of twenty of lie employes em-ployes and financial I0J8 of nearly a tali' million dollars. I The management expresses the conviction con-viction that the exptoslon was plan ncd by men In sympathy with union labor, wl'h which, th paper has long been engaged In bitter warfare. It ls charged that unknown persons set off a heavy charge of dynamite in a blind alley which ran into the center of the bu'lldins:, completely wrecking the interior and setting it on fire freni roof to basement. The force of the explosion was terrific. ter-rific. It was hoord for miles and all the windows in the vicinity of the Times building, at First street and Ftroadway were shattered. Between firtv and soventy-flvo employes were In the building at the time of the explosion ex-plosion and. until the whole list of employes of the paper can be cheeked iivpt if will not be known how many lives were lost-Had lost-Had Narrow Escapes. The responsible heads of the paper, Including Assistant General Manager Harry Chandler, had narrow escapes from death, many of them having left the building a short time before the explosion. The fire spread with amaz Ing rapldltv and. in the course of a few seconds, flames were bursting from every window and door and shooting high above , the roof. The building was equipped with gas fittings fit-tings and the explosion, tearing these pipes into bits, released gas which ignited Instantly In every department. No other theory than a dnnmito c-xploslon was advanced by witnesses, except In the case of a Western Union telegraph operator, William F. win, who said that he detected the odor of gas throughout the building earlier in the night and had called atten tlon to it. The Impact of the explosion came from the direction of the alley running run-ning Inio the middle of the building. Here, according to .the belief of the Tlrnt?3 owners, the charge of dynamite dyna-mite had been placed. Arrests Are Made. A few minutes after the catastrophe catastro-phe the police arrested Harry Plake, who was making his way through the Broadway tunnel a few blocks distant. Me was locked up on suspicion. William Wil-liam Irwin was arrested later and taken tak-en to the station. The police are without clues, however, as to the probable perpetrators Assistant General Manager Chandler's Chand-ler's office was on the ground floor and he had left U only a few minutes before the explosion. He was accustomed ac-customed to remaining unlil later, but cm this occasion his wife had coinp for Mm and he had gone to his homo a fc-w blor-ks distant. His secretary, J. Wesley Reaves, remained in the office of-fice and perished. Bitter War and Labor Troubles. The Times was established in 1RS1 and General Otis purchased tho paper six months Inter For twenty jeavs the paper and Its owner have ben entaged in a bitter war with the la-I'or la-I'or unions, starting with a strike by members .of the Typographical Union employed on the paper. General Otis was absent from the f'i'' when his newspaper plant was destroyed. He Is on hla way hack to l.os Angeles from the City of Mexico, whither he went foine weeks aso as a r preventative of tlie United S'ates vovernmmt by appointment of President Presi-dent Tuft, to' the celebration of the Mexican Central. General 0"is is to arrive In lis Angeles todov. "he building In which the Tlrnea was locale, was of stone and brick. A part of it was of four stories, of tr'e. aud uan built in 1SS7. Six Modes of brick were added later.. The American Engraving company aud the a "er can Electrical company, both .oiLisKiiary companies of the Times-, Times-, r,r0r Print,nK company, were hous-",) hous-",) n the building. Ch;!nd,or estimated the ilnan-3223,nftfl ilnan-3223,nftfl ;i5,fK'0' wtlh ins"rc (,r T(, 1 .Prln,er Killed. nallv from .tfnd m,5s,n coniR ,r,m 1 rri"?1 -mpor.ng room of the Ln.' h u'88 ,,lrl' above the v' STr !u PlMon occurred J?""1" f tho Printers and linotype d to Z ,re,m,,8 and are bellev-t bellev-t d to be Lur' In the sUi burning debris in the basement of the building. build-ing. In the local room' of tho paper all of the editors ond reporters had gone home, with thy exception oi two or three men. Assistant City Editor Ed-itor Harvey C. Elder was still on duty. When the explosion eaaie and the flames shot up through all parts of the building, Elder was badly stunned, but attempted to escape. Finding exit by the stairway shut off. he ran to the windows, which opened out from tho third floor on Broadway. There was m Are escape there, and, hemmed hem-med in by flames, he was forced to lump. Firemen below held a net. but he missed It and struck the pavement. He died soon afterward. Night Editor Tapgart was at work in the composing room. He leaped through a window and made his way out across the roofs of adjoining buildings to safety. Persons who were first on the scone state that there were three distinct dis-tinct explosions. The first seemed to be the heaviest and occurred on the second floor, which is used as the composing room The Times plant was run by electricity throughout, and. as far as is known, there was no steam loller of any kind in the building. The building occupied by the Tlmes-Mlrror Tlmes-Mlrror publishing plant is located on the southeast corner of Broadway and First street, fronting about 30 feet on First and extending !ibout 73 or 100 feet along Broadway. The main build-i build-i ing of brick, with a heavy stone frout, van three slories in height, and back tf this was a brick annex of two stories and basement. The editorial department . of the Times was on the' third' floor of the main building, and the business office on the ground floor. Th? annex contained con-tained the presses, liuotvpes, big job printing plant and the Times school for training linotype operators. The Times employed non-union printers and maintained a large battery of linotypes for teaching and training operators in the' uso of the machines. The llames followed the explosion so quickly that those in the building had little chance to escape. Many leaped from the windows and were severely injured. The building burned rapidly, and before those awakened by the explosion or at work in nearby structures could reach the street, it was a mass of flames. The force of the explosion was exerted ex-erted on the mechanical derailment of the paper and most of the dead and Injured were members of these departments. At 2 o'clock 22 Injured had been taken to the receiving hospital. hos-pital. Managing Editor Statement. Managing Editor Ilarrv R. Andrews at 2 o'clock thisnornlug said: "The Times building was destroyed by dynamite this morning by the enemies en-emies of industrial freedom. The Times itself cannot be destroyed. It will soon be reissued from its auxiliary aux-iliary plant and will fight its battles to the lost. "The horror of loss of life and the maiming of men precludes a further statement at this hour. "General Otis, owner of the Times, will arrive home from Mexlco.thls afternoon." af-ternoon." Mr. Andrews said that in his opinion opin-ion the estimate of loss of life had been exaggerated. "Men employed in most of the departments de-partments had, I think, some chance to get through the front exits. 1 do not believe there were 100 persons In the building. 1 was not there. Mr. Chandler, the nianag-r, was not there. Mr. Von Blon, ojt city editor, got out. also Mr. Whitney, our telegraph editor. edi-tor. I feel sure that most of our men escaped." First Explosion in Alley. According to another statement, the lirf-t explosion occurred in an alleyway alley-way which separated the third and seventh story -parU of the building. Friday night, being an unusually heavy period at the Times, something over thirty men were at work on the linotypes and about fifty In ths "ad" section. Because of the fact that so many extra men were at work. It will probably be several das before all are accounted for. Immediately after the fire heads of depart merits, and other employes gathered gath-ered at the Herald office, a block away. At that time there were about fifty persons accounted for. During the fire nt the Times several sev-eral surrounding buildings were threatened, but hard work by the firemen saved thera. Tho Times plant j |