Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-02 | Page 2 | Scranton Sun, Hit by Blast, Issues Editions

on I SC SCRANTON SUN I L HIT II Of BY BLAST J ISSUES EDITIONS SCRANTON Pa Jan 2 AP AP- AP Its building and equipment dam- dam ag d by a blast of dynamite the Scranton Sun afternoon newspaper went went about tho the business of ot getting out its editions as usual today while authorities were searching for the tho per perpetrators of the explosion The Sun building was shaken and Windows In dwellings and other structures in toe vicinity were broken by a he heavy v vy charge of explosive explosive sive live that went off oft orf as the bells bens of the city were tolling the beginning of the New Ye Year Tear r. r Three persons were cut by flying glass and only the fact that the paper does not pu publish a a. Sunday edition probably prevented prevent prevent- ed any loss of ot life lIle No one was in the building at the time of the blast For several months the tho Sun has made mado a campaign against violators of th tho liquor and other laws Officials Officials Of Of- of the paper and the police I expressed the belief that the explosion I slon sion was the work of ot bootleggers or others who sought revenge against the newspaper The charge believed to consist of ot sixteen sticks sUcks of ot dynamite was set setoff of off offin in the rear of the building near the press and directly under th thI the 1 composing room The explosion I broke every window in the building ripped huge rolls of Ot paper in the tho pressroom in half haIr and tore up the the floors How badly the press and Linotype machines were damaged I could not be ascertained but officials officials officials made mado arrangements to publish pub pub- lish USh the paper from another newspaper newspaper news news- paper plant in case they could not operate ate their own machinery Those injured were Mrs 1 Lucy and her y year 5 aroM ar- ar old oM niece who live in an a court in the rear of the building and Gerald Burke who was passing the Plant at the time Ume of the explosion on