Show T r KILLED BY all los angeles times Is destroyed by explosion and fire LOS ANGELES gala cala oct I 1 the building and plant of the los angeles times one of the beat known newspapers of the southwest of which gen geri II arrison gray oils otis ia U editor and principal owner wen were destroyed by an explosion and fire shortly after I 1 this morning resulting in the death of upward of twenty of its employed emp loyes and a finan cial losa loss of nearly a half million dollars the management of the tho paper ex presses the conviction that tho the explosion waa was planned hy by men man in sympathy with union labor with which the paper has long been engaged in bitter warfare it is charged that unknown persons set off a heavy charge of dynamite in a blind alley which ran into the center of the building completely wrecking tho the interior and setting it on fire from roof to basement the force of the explosion vaa was ter rifle it was heard for miles and all the windows in tho the vicinity of the times building at first street and broadway v 4 ro re shattered bet between con fifty and seventy severity five employed emp loyes were in the building at tha the time of the explosion and until tho tile whole list of employed emp loyes of the paper can cart be checked over it will not bo be known how many lives were acre lost the responsible heads of mhd paper including assistant general manager hany harry chandler had narrow escapes from death many of them having left the building a short time before the explosion the fire spread with amazing rapidity and antho in alie course of bf a few seconds flames were bursting from cairy window and door and shooting high above the roof the building was w as equipped with gas fittings and the explosion tearing these pipes into bits released gaa gas which i wa ignited instantaneously in every department |