Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — BLAST KILLS TWENTY [ARTICLE]

BLAST KILLS TWENTY

Plant of the Los Angeles Times Is Totally Destroyed. ■ I • ~ . rL ■' I Twenty were killed, eighty injured by a mysterious explosion which de- | stroyed the plant of the Losi Angeles Times. Harrv E Andrews, managing editor said: “The Times building was destroyed by dynimite by the enemies of industrial freedom The Times itself cannot be destroyed. It will soon be reissued from its auxilary plant sad will fight its battles to the last. The horror of 'he loss of life and maiming of men precludes a further statement at this time ” The Times was going to press when the explosion occurred and more than a hundred employes were at work Many were killed outright by the falling walls and beams. Approximately eighty, with limbs broken and covered with bruises and cuts, escaped to the street before the fire spread. The following employes of the linotype room are missing and are undoubtedly iiead: J C, Galliher. W. G. Tunstall Fred Llewellyn, John Howard. Grant Moore. Edward Wasson. Elmer Frink, Eugene Cares, Don E Johnson. Ernest .Jordan. Frank Underwood, Wesley J. Beverly, R. L. Sawyer. Harry L. Crane. Charles Gulliver, Carl 1 Satalada i Two more dynamite bombs or ;n----j ferns! machines were discovered by I the police, ore at the home qf the pubj lisber of the newspaper, Gen Harrison ; Gray Otis, and the o'her on the premj ises occupied by F J. Zeebandeiaar, secretary of the Lob Angeles Meri chants’ and Manufacturing associaI tion.