Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1909 — DYNAMITE BLASTS SHOCK INDIANAPOLIS [ARTICLE]

DYNAMITE BLASTS SHOCK INDIANAPOLIS

Wrecking of Four Buildings Is ' Charged to Strikers. Indianapolis, Oct. 26. —Four buildings in different parts of the city were wrecked by explosions of dynamite caused, according to the police, by strikers or their sympathizers engaged in a controversy with Albert Von Spreckelsen, a contractor, who is building the Mystic Shrine Temple and theater. Two automobiles and two horses were destroyed in an explosion and fire in Von Spreckelsen’s stable. A branch exchange building under construction for the Central Union Telephone company was damaged beyond repair. Von Spreckelsen’s planing mill was torn to pieces. A branch of the public library, being built by Von Spreckelsen, was damaged to the extent of SI,OOO.