Blown up.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 149, 3 October 1910, Page 5

Blown up.

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER OFFICE. A SENSATIONAL AFFAIR. SIXTY WORKERS BURNED. By Cable — Press Association—Copyright. Received 2, 6.5 pjn. San Francisco, October 2. A fire occurred in the Los Angeles Times building at midnight, resulting in the complete destruction of the building and plant, worth £IOO,OOO. Crowds watched men who were cut off by the flames fall backwards out of Hie windows. The death roll will probably be fifty, but estimates vary. The preliminary explosion is a mystery, as all the plants are worked by electricity. A later explosion was caused by dynamite and 60 are dead. A score are missing and many are seriously -injured. A DIABOLICAL PLOT. SEVERAL BOMBS FOUND. UNIONISTS CHARGED WITH THE CRME. Received October 2, 12.35 a.m. New York, October 1. Bombs were found in the homes of the secretary of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association and General Otis, editor-in-chief of the Times. The death roll is nineteen. Several editors leaped from their windows and were killed in the fall. The newspaper's special edition in the evening charged labor unions with the responsibility for the affair. General Otis, who is a millionaire, and who has fought the unions for twenty years, employed no union men. ' The bomb at General Otie's was concealed by a suitcase hidden in a vine outaide the drawing-room window. The Chief of Police took the bomb in an automobile to a neighboring park, where it exploded. As tiie detectives ran for their lives, the neighborhood was panic stricken. The bombs were timed to explode simultaneously, with the Times Office explosion, but the mechanism was faulty. Each weighed fifty pounds. General Otis arrived from Mexico this evening, and was cheered by a crowd at the railway station. The police find that the dynamite in one bomb was of the same brand as that used for work in a local aqueduct, and tins will probably give a clue to the perpetrators.