BOMB OUTRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 937, 3 October 1910, Page 5

BOMB OUTRAGE.

OFFICE BLOWN UP WITH GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. NEWSPAPER WRECKED MILLIONAIRE EDITOR ATTACKED AT LOS ANGELES. JOURNALISTS BURNED IN FLAMES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. October 3, 0.35 a.m.) San Francisco, October 1. A daring series of dynamite outrages has been perpetrated in the city of Los Angeles, in Southern California, and has resulted in great loss of life and propcrty. An explosion and fire occurred, in the "Los Angeles Times" buildings at Los Angeles, at midnight, and resulted in the complete 'destruction of tho building and plant, valued at Crowds watched a number of men who'wero cut off by tho flames fall backwards from tho windows. The cause of the explosion was a mystery, as tho whole of the plant is worked by electricity. It was later discovered, however, that dynamite had been used. There are sixty men dead and a 6Core more are missing. Many others have been seriously injured. • Bombs were found in the homes of the secretary of tho Los Angeles Merchants' Manufacturers' Association, and of Genoral Otis, editor-in-chief of tho 'Times." The death-roll stands' at nineteen. Several editors leaped from the windows of tho "Times" office, and were killed in the fall. The newspapers, in a special edition in tho evening, charged the labour unions with tho responsibility for the fire. General Otis is a millionaire, and has fough't the unions for twenty years. He employed no union men on the paper. The bomb discovered at General Otis's house was concealed in a suit case, and hidden in a vine outside the drawingroom window. Tho Chief of Police took the bomb in an automobile to a neighbouring park, where it exploded. As the detectives ran for their lives the neighbourhood became panicstricken. The bombs were timed to explode simultaneously with' thoso 'in the ."Times" office. The explosion mechanism, however, was faulty The bombs weighed fifty pounds. General Otis arrived from Mexico this evening, and was cheered by the crowd at tho railway station. • The police found that the dynamite in one bomb was the same as used tin the work on an aqueduct locally. This, it is thought, may probably afford a due to the perpetrators of the outrage. ANOTHER NEWSPAPER OFFICE BURNED. BIG OUTBREAK IN NEW ORLEANS. New York, September 80. ' A disastrous fire has occurred in New Orlearis, resulting in the destruction of tho newspaper "Times-Democrat" building and other structures. ( "general Harrison'Gray Otis 'is sevenfrthrce years of age. He served in both the Civil ■ War s of the 'sixties of last century and the American-Spanish war of 1898. and was givon the -rank of Major/General in the'volunteers in 1899. General Otis has been Iconnected with California journalism for 33 years, and is /.editor,.'and general/manager //qf/the' ''Los' Angeles Times;",,/ '■ \\ //.:'//;;".•>-:>;;/;