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Show DYNAMITE OUTRAGE PLANT Of LOS ANGELES TIMES IS WRECKED AND TWENTY MEN j LOSE THEIR LIVES. j aploslon Was Followed by Flair of Finn That Mad a Roaring Furnace of Doomed Building and Men Had ! No Chance of Eicap. Ix Angel --Four men r known tn hn dead and fifteen are int. flux, there being no doubt that their charred bodle will be found Ian r, the result of an eiplnnlon and fire which destroyed the plant of t ie !." Angelo Times, early Friday in irnlng. causing a monetary Ion nf half a mil lion dollar. In addition to ihe l ime building the building of the lluuingart Publishing company, adjoining the Times, togather with the plant of the Weekly (iraphlc, was also completely destroyed. The kuown dad are: Harvey C Rider, Mslstsnt city editor; J Wenley Iteavea, secretary to Assistant tn , oral Manager Chandler; R I., .taw j yer, telegraph editor, and Haney I, Crane, assistant telegraph editor. The I fifteen in leal iia; are prlntere. lynotype operator and muehlnlsts, all but three being married and leaving fa mlllea. It la charged hy employees nf the Time who escaped thut the fire was tho result of a dvnanille eiplnnlon which occurred In tho alleway he. tween the two buildings, the eiplnnton being of such force as to overthrow the lynotype inaehlnen, which were nn Ih second floor of the building, and Ihrown the operator cler to Ihe celling. The men whs perished had no chance for Ihelr lives, the hulldlt.g being a fleet king, roaring mans or flame In a moment after the ciplo Inn, and It I uppod thone who perished were tunned by the esplo Ion. Those who escaiied did so by rushing at once lo Ihe door and win dow. donors! Harrison tlray Otis, puh Usher nf the Times, and the respon d ble heada nf the paper, charge thedu mer tn labor union sources With emphasis, the labor lenders here and throughout the atate tepn dlate the accusation, and have ol fered all aid In their power to run down the culprits. For twenty yeara, following a quur rel with the Typographical union, which resulted In making Ihe Times a non uulmi puper. tleneral Otis tins been opposed to union and ha fougld unionism wllh every resource at hla hands The Times hn king been reiV of unionism In Ihe l ulled Slates; and It has been seconded In II flgnt against organlted labor by the Mr rbanta A Manufacturers' association of this cllv. Following Ihe terrible Ins nf life as a result nf the destruction of Ihe Times' plant come the announcement that a dynamite bomb, nperdted by clockwork, wa discovered hv the gardener nt the residence of tleneral tills In Ihe fashionable secttmi nf the city. The bomb bad been placed tin der some vines underneath a buy win dow. The gardener telephoned the police, who removed the bomb to n nearby park, where It eiplndc't. but did Hill" damage, li probably would have deatroyed the Oils home, hsd It esplnded In the place It waa dUcov ered tleneral Otis was In Mejlco at the time, but bus lnce returned to l.os Angeles, and boldly charges Ihe labor unions with the crime of blow Ing up the Time building and milk lug an attempt In deatroy hla home. Another Infernal machine was found at the residence of Hecrelnry Zeehandelaar. of the Merehnnta a) Manufacturer' association. It ws composed nf fifteen atlcka nf giant powder and wa timed to go off al Ihe ame hour the eipluslon occurred at the Tlmea office. Asslsiant (ienernl Manager ('hand ter, of the Times, who probably e raped death owing to the fart that he left the office an hour earlier than usual, I authority for the atatement ...... . -i.n., .ii. ... i,i m blow up thn Times' auslllary plant at College and Han Fernando atreeta a tew minutes before Ihe eipluslon oc curred which destroyod the main building The aiiccesnlon of Irnglc events nnd the rumors of attempted outriigea has set the populnce of Wis Angeles In a state of mind bordering upon panic Hundreds of detectives and policemen re busy In every direction, running down clue and endeavoring to find the alleged perpetrators of the crimes Hn far I wo arreat have been made, but these are only min suspicion. The president of Ihe Incal Typo graphical union lias Issued orders In union printer that thev mav work In rnn!uncion with the nonunion printer print-er nf Ihe Times In nv nf the local newspaper ofllce 111 getting out the edlitnus of the Tine s until n new plant has been hi. lulled The city council has npproprhiiod IJ.'i.onO tor the purpose of determining ! the cause of tho cxploHlon ut Ihe j Times office, and has offered a reward I of f.'.'-ou for the ciiptiiro of those re ! poniltile for the outmco |