FATAL FIRE IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5918, 4 October 1910, Page 1

FATAL FIRE IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

SAN FRANOTSCO, Oct. 1. An explosion and lire occurred, 'in the Los Aie_;el-s Times I'liildiaes at midiiieht. result iivj in (he complete destruction of the liuildino- and plant, the loss be'inu; estimated at C (OO.tCHI. Lrowds watched men. cut off by the I'ames, fall backwards from tic windows. The death roll i» probably SO, but i'sl iinafes vary. 'The origin of (lie explosion is a mystery, as all the jinn's were worked by electricity. Later.

The (".plosion was one of dyn unite. There are C-M dead and a sfoiv. missile,-.. Man,- others wrro sorioa-lv iiijun d. Nl'iW VOi'K, Oct. I. Bombs weie found in Hie homes ol the. secrctaiy of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association and of f'ren-i-v.-d Otis, editor-in-chief of (he Times. Several of the editors leaned from nii!dov,s and v. ere killed by' the fall'l he nce,sna|i-r's special edition ill the e.riiiiiL;' the labour unions with responsibility for the disaster. Oeiieral Otis, who is ,-i midionaire. fought the union. ni:«l for twenty years emnlo\'ed no union men. The ho-iiil)' ai (h-ri'ral o(is's was e.meen!*d in a suit ease hidden in a vine outsid'. (he druwir.".>--ro<iiii. window. The chief of police look the bomb in a" aiitoinoliil,. lo a neiidiliourin-r park, where if exploded. As the detectives ran for (heir lives the neie-hbourhoo 1 became panic slrieken. The mechanism of the bomb was faully. It'weighed fifty pounds. Oenernl Otis arrived, fiiam "Mex'ic-o this e\'euii' L '-, and was cheered by the crowd ;it the railway station. Tic poih'e I'md that dynamite in i>'iv bomb at the Times ollieo was used to ! work an aqueduct locally. This will [probably eive a due to the pespetraI tors of the outraee.