DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10109, 3 October 1910, Page 5

DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.

NEWSPAPER OFFICE DESTROYED. FIGIYR UVES LOST. (Received Last Night, 5.50 o'clock.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1. An explosion of dynamite caused a fire in the Los Angelos Times buidlings at midnight last night. The building and plant, which wore valued at £IOO,OOO, were completely destroyed. Crowds watched the men, who were cut off by the flames, fall backwards from the windows. Sixty men are known to be dead, s,nd another twenty are missing. Many were seriously injured. BOMBS FOUND. THE REVISED DEA.-x-ROLL. CHARGE AGAINST LABOUR UNIONS. (Received This Morning, 12.35 | o'clock.)

NEW YORK, Oct. 2. Advices from Angelos state that dynamite bombs were found in the homes of the secretary of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, and of General Otis, editor-in-chief of the Times. The revised death-roll shows 19 victims. Several of the editors leaped from the -windows and were killed in the fall.

Tile newspapers, which published special editions in the evening, charged the Trades Unions with the responsibility for the outrage. General Otis is a millionaire, who has fought the Unions for twenty years. He employed no Union men.

The bomb at General Otis' house was concealed in a suit case and hidden in a vine outside the draw-ing-room window,

The 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 panic-stricken. The bombs were timed to explode simultaneously with the Times office explosion. The mechanism, however, was faulty. The bombs weighed fifty pounds.

General Otis arrived from Mexico this evening, and was cheered by a crowd at the railway station.

The police have discovered th,at the dynamite in one of the bombs was used at the work at a local aqueduct. It is probable that this will prove a clue to the perpetrators of tin outrage.