University of South Carolina Libraries
FIRE AND DEATH Fallows Bhwiig Up Los Aageles Tines BeiMiag Sataiday THIRTY WERE KILLED Within Few MJnuteo of the Explosion the Entire Kuilding Was Fiery Furnace.??The Managing Editor Says Plant l>estroyed by Enemies of Industrial Freedom. The building occupied by The iiUHW ruuuxuiu; cuiu|)?ii; ai iiUB Angt*)**, Cttl., was destroyed by tire Saturday morning and there was a heavy loss of life, estimated as high aa 20. The fire was proceeded by an explosinon and immediately the building was enveloped in flames. The explosion occurred on the second floor of an addition to the old building. The old part is of three floors. Within a few seconds from the time Iof the explosion the entire building was a flery furnace. Crowds that gathered say they saw many men fail hack from the windows Into the flames. Others leaped and were injured. .The poperty loss Is estimated at $500,000. The editorial rooms were on the third floor, but it is believed the greater part of the men on thi6 1 floor escaped death. Thomas P. Smith, an "ad" compositor, working on the second floor when the explosion occurred, gives | the following version: "There were at least 50 men at work on nay floor. I believe that half of this number may not have escaped. I with the others rushed for th^ street and we then Baw the whoie building in flams.. "The entire building was in ruins at 1.45, and but two walls were stand ng. "In addition to the complete plant of The Times the building contained the large jobbing and commercial plant of the American Engraving Co." Within a few minutes after the explosion the police arrested two men in the Broadway tunnel, two blocks north of the Times' building a ad tney are oeing neia ior lnaentincatlon. The Times' employs non-union printers and has had more or less friction with labor. ~}The' police had their fire lines put up around the scene and reserves were eoon patrollng the district ariu?d with riot clubs but the half clad crowd which silently watched the flames from behind the Are lines were orderly and not an arrest was made from amongst the crowd. The following Hat of missing furnished by the Times have not been accounted for: J. C. Golllher. linotype op?rau?r. married, five children. W. G. Tunstall. linotype operator, married. John Howard, printer, married, one child. "Grant Moore, machinist, marriei, three children. Edward WaSson, printer, married. Elmer Frink. linotype operator, married. Eugene Cares, linotype operator, married, one child. Don E. Johnson, iluotype operator, married. Erneet Jordan, linotype operator, married, one child. Frank Underwood, printer, married, one child. J. Wesley Beaver, stenographer. tR. L. Sawyer, telegrapher, mairled. two children. (Harry L. Crane, assistant t?i? graph editor, married, one child. Chales Gulliver, compositor. marTied. Carl Salada, Hnotype operator. Among the Injured taken to the receiving hospital were the rollowtr.g: (Harvey P. Klder, isi.ti.:.' city e liter, jumped from third etory; right leg broken, internal Injuries and serere burns; will die. Charles E. Lovelace, Coast editor. Jumped from third floor, hip broken. Internally iujured and burnen S. W. Crabill, foreman composing room, severe bruises. iRandolph Rossi, linotype opera to . Jumped lrom second fToor, so\erely Injured. Many others injured were taken to the other hospitals. The flames followed the explosion so quickly that those in ?he n itullng had little chance to eacppe. Many leaped from the windows mil were severely injured. The building burned rapidly an I oeiore many 01 tne inmates cimIu reach the street It was a uias- ot flames The force of the explosion wn concentrated on the mechanical department of the paper and most of the dead and injurede were members of these departments. Man&gng Editor Harry Andrews, i at two o'clock Saturduy morning, said: "The Times building was destroyed by dynamite this morning by enemies of industrial freedom. The Times Itself cannot be destroyed. It will ( soon be re-issued from its auxilary 4 * * PLACED BOMB BY HOUSE IEADER OF SOCIETY THROWN INTO EXCITEMENT. Man Attempts Entrance and Police Believe He Expected to Gain Reward for "Saving" Household. After placing a bomb beside the residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer ac Chicago and cutting hiB coat in'? threds with a butcher knife piercing his skin, Fred Wahlenmeyer, 26 yea j /vM ?if t...l TT?-1 J -I-*-* * - * - viv?i ukicuijitcu r i may iiiriu CO pillil entrance to the mansion. He was arrested. Wahlenweyer demanded an audience with Prs. Palmer, but the watchman. who was the first person en countered, summoned the police. Wahlenmeyer at first told a story ->f having seen another man placing the bomb on the side of the house and of struggling with him. I-ater, however, the prisoner confessed to having put the explosive there himself and to having cut his clothes to bear out his narrative. Mrs. Palmer was ai home at the time and the whole household was thrown into excitement by the proximity of death or injury from the bomb. Wahlenmeyer was questioned for hours by the police, but refused to explain his motive, hiding behind the expression: "Why did I do it? Oh. just for instance." The police are proceeding on the will question Mrs. Palmer in regard to reports that she had received threatening letters, in the effort to discover the man's reason for the act. It is believed that Wahlenmeyer is not insane. The police are proceeding of th theory that he thought to gain a reward for having "saved" the house and its occupants from "some mysterious bomb-thrower" and that his mutilation of his clothes was to substantiate this claim. + TEDDY MUST PAY DEBTS. Owes Itailrouds Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars. Roosevelt who fought the "interests" with his mouth while in office. whose congress passed laws forbidding the use of passes over railroads. the mighty enemy of the "trusts" and "monopolies," is indebted to the Pennsylvania railroad for $ 100.000, incurred in the use of < special trains during his trust-busting administration. The New York World publishes a letter from one of the stockholders of the Pennsylvauii railroad, asking why this bill ot |100,000 has never been collected. It will be recalled that conerea* aside $25,000 to be used by the president to defray traveling expenses, the Idea being, no doubt, to see to it that the president of the Unit?d States should not be obligated to any transportation company for valuable services rendered and unpaid. Hut $25,000 was not enough for Mr. Roosevelt. On the slightest pretext he ordered special trains, and the richest fare and attention the road afforded, and. it seems naught was said of remuneration. TYPHOON SWKKPS ISLAM Hi. Thousands of People Are Homeless And the Crops Much Hitniaged. At Manila, P. I., a typhoon of unusual severity swept over the valley of the Cayagan river in the provinces of Cayagan and Isabella, northern Luzon, on September 24. Four towns, including Uagan. the capital of Isabella province, were practically demolished. A thousand persons are still homeless and destitute, but the dispatches so far received indicate that there were no casualties. The tobacco crop was serious- ' ly damaged. The government is making relief plans. i plant and will tight its battles to the i last. i "The horror o{ the loss of life and maiming of men precludes a further 1 statement at this hour." Geueral Harrison Gray Otis, owner ' of The Times, win arrive home from ?' Mexico. he stated, Monday morning. I "Men employed in most of the departments had. T think." said Mr. Andrews, "some chance to get out ' through the front exits. I do not ( believe there were 10u persons in the building. 1 was not there. Mr. Von Hler. our city editor, got out. also Mr. Whitnes, our telegraph editor. I feel sure most of our men escaped. Friday night being unusually hea- ' vy at The Times, something over ;;u ' men were at work on the linotypes a and about f>0 in the "ad" section. Because of the fact that so many 1 extra men were at work it will be'1 probably several days before all are c accounted for. M Tho building occupied by The J1 Times Mirror publishing plant is of |1 urn-*, xnree stories in height and 1 back of this was a brick annex of two 1 stories and a basement. The editorial department of The Times was on the third floor of the main building and the business office on the ground I 1 floor. This annex contained the 1 presses, linotypes, big job printing !c plant and The Times school for train- d ing liueoptye operators. (a A DEADLY SPORTS ? Km id the Deal aid Dyiag tke Great Raciaf Ant* Cars Tear Oi. FOUR PERSONS KILLED And Many Wounded in the Vuinlor- ,, built Cup Kare on Itlooo Stained | CV>ur?e?The Accident1* Causing the Death of Two of the Vi tiios Sensational in the Extreme. ^ At Lons island Parkway, N. Y., u f l.iii?? ? iuui miicu ana -u seriously injured, three of them probablv la- ^ tally, was the price in human lite c paid for the sixth running of the Vanderbuilt cup race, won in electri- t fylng fashion by Harry Grant, driving a 120 horsepower Alco. J Grant, who distiuguishcd himself last year by tinisliing first in the fifth * Vanderbuilt,, won today's event from t Joe Dawson, driving a Marmouth, by the narrow margin of 2."> seconds, a John Aitken. in the National, was f only a minute and six seconds behind < Dawson. 1 The race was the most hotly cor.- t tested of any of the Vanderbuilt ci.? races, and with the-two small car < events run as a unit with it. the Wheat ley Hill sweepstakes and the Matsapequn trophy brought out a record of number of starters. 1 !The time of the three first race c cars finishing in the main event stir- t passed the best time ever made in ' an American road race. Grant, by c overing 278.08 miles of the course i in 4 hours. 12 minutes and 58 sec onds, equivalent to an average of 60 t 1-5 miles and hour, established a t now American record. But as brilliant as was the per- r formance of the three winners and c as thrilling as the race itself, the t horror caused by the wholesa! maiming and killing which attend- t ed it cast such a deep shadow over spectators, participants and the man- ^ agemcnt that the crowd dispersed s under a pall of sorrow. c The accidents that caused two of 1 tlie there deaths recorded were seu- 1 national in the extreme. The first occurred when the Columbia car, j driven by Harold Stone, suddenly ^ hurst a tire at the approach of the 1 cement bridge crossing the West bury road and, becoming unmanageable, plunged over the parapet. The great machine went over twice in midair * and landed on its side, crushing out r.ne me of Matthew Bacon, Stone's mechanician, who was caught under it. Stone himself sustained fr.ie- a lures to both legs and internal in- I jurie?. from which It is doubtful if i he will recover. j> The kill^pg of Louis Chevrolet's : mechanician, Charles Miller, came as u the climax of a mad attempt of Chev- j rolet to gain a lead lost through frc- f quent tire troubles. The daring * French driver, who, earlier in the j race had reeled of round ofter round c at 72 1-2 miles an hour, hurdled a had run in the back atretched with t full power on., and, landing on three t wheels only, found his car zlg-/..ig- j King from side to side, unresponsive i to its steering gear. As a shriek of i horror sounded from the hundred assembled at the spot, the car plung- s e>l Into a fence and swept it away * like so much paper, then plowed t deep into a passenger laden touring car moored on the side of the road. The impact was terrific and the occupants of the touring car were \ tossed high In the air. All cscai?e.l death, however, but Miller was caught in the wreckage and instantly killed. Chevrolet owes his llf? to the staunchness of his steering H wheel, upon which he kept a firm * hold to the end. He was pulled out ' of the debris with nothing more ser- y ious man : broken arm. The third death of the day did *' not occur on the course, but in an *' iceident en route to the race. Fer- ! Jinand D'Zubia an automobile man. 1 tvas the virtim. 11 in wife had both s legs broken in the sniashu]). The fourth death wjis that of Kd- J nard Lynch, who died at a hospital ' jr a reHult of injuries received when 1 ic was run down after the race. t t t ti KILLS MIS FATIIKIC. s * ? rosjM'rcMis Farmer Is Slain by Son 0 Who Attempts Suicide. Within sight of his home, J. S. *yda, a prosperous farmer o! the ^ 'riiitlund section of Henderson couny. North Carolina, was shot and intantly killed Saturday morning by lis son. Meridith Lyda. The young s( nan tlre<l three siiots at his father. wo of which took effect. The cause ? if the tragedy is not stated in the 0l lispatrh. The slayer was arrested n hat afternoon in a field. lie at- 0 emitted to kill himself when he saw 0 lie sheriff approaching, but his ef- r] ort was frustrated by the latter. * tl ? fl Pies from Fall. f, At Muelhausen, Germany. Aviator w 'lochmann. who was injured when J lis hi-plane collapsed at a height a >f 150 feet Wednesday, died Thurs- V lay without having regained con- o ciousneM. * ti NAMED THEIR TICKET JEW YORK DEMOCRATS PITS UP A STRONG SLATE lotin A. Dix Named for the First Place and Thomas F. Conway for the Second Place. At Rochester, N. Y., on Friday light the State Democratic ConvaQion nominated the following ticke* or the next State election: Governor?John A. Dir. Wushingon County. Lieutenant Governor?Thomas F. Conway, Clinton County. Secretary of State?Edward Lazmskv, King's County. Comptroller?Win. Solimer, New fork. State Treasurer?John J. Kennely, Erie County. Attorney General?Thomas J. Caruody, Yates County. State Engineer and Survevor?Jno. V. Bensel, New York. Associate Judge of the Court oi Ippeals?Frederick K. Collins, Chenug County. This list of candidates, prepared ifter a day of almost contiuous conerences. went through shortly after nidnight with two halts in its quick Mogress. This was the presentation >f the name of Congressman William >ulzer as the only rival candidate for Jovernor.. Mr. Sulzer received 16 of he 450 votes of the Convention, and dr. I)lx got the rest. Supreme Court Justice James A tates. of Ulster County, was the ouly >ther candidate presented In opposiion fo the leaders. For Associate fudge of the Court of Appeals he revived 22 votes, but before the result ?f the balloting was announced the tomination of Mr. Collin was made lnanimous on the motion of Ulser's lelegate. The ticket was concluded by the tomination of Frederick K. Collin, if Klmira, for Associate Justice of he the Court of Appeals. rrin'ii John II. Stanchfield, of Elnira. moved that the Convention enlorse the candidacy of Irving G. /ami. who has been nominated *o iucceed himself in the second vacany on the Court of Appeals Bench. The motion was carried unaniuiousy. The Convention took its final adournmenl at 12.25 A. M.. and the lelesates made a rush for theif rains. >1 INKHS PKIII9H (hp Hundred and Fifty of the Men are Entombed. One hundred and fifty miners, posilbly more, are entombed and beieved to be dead in mine No. 2, at 'aula, Mexico, in the Las Esperan:as mining district, operated by the National Railway lines of Mexico, is a result of two explosions, pesumibly because of an accumulation of cas Saturday . The men entombed ire mostly native Japanese miners, ilthough the victims are said to in luiie several Americans. At the time of the explosion the ntire night shift, estimates the nuni?or varying from 150 to 300 were ill at work. Of these none had cached the surface. In a'l probalility all are dead. The sesond explosion oucurred ihortly after a rescue party had de icenuea. mat this was killed is hought certain. SAU.OItS ARK IHIOVVXKU. iVi'll Loa(le<l Tender Bound for a Battleship. Several sailors from the battlehip New Hampshire were drowndid by the upsetting of a tender in he North River off One Hundred JJo.\ jc )ooj)s puo.ios-XijjM pun iaturday night. Estimates of the lead vary front three to as high is 12. but as no official count has men made of the number aboard be tender and as many men have hore leave, it was impossible acnratelv to tlx the list of missing, 'he sailors were returning to the few Hampshire after shore leave ltd more than 10ft of them, it is stimated. had crowded aboard the ender. which was being towed to the attleship. About 300 yards off hore the craft either swamped or as upset and the entire load of sailrs was precipitated into the water. Kill L'U i?%* % .1 a.ll>. l Ydlinic Man Moris With a M??ki Horrible Death. Edward Davis, the 18-year-old :>n of Mr. T Jeff Davis, a promim-nt inner living aliout four miles west f Greenwood, was run over and killit early Friday morning at Salak. iree miles west of here by a train n the Charleston and Western Carlina Railroad. His body was horibly mangled. It is supposed that r?e train which ran over hoin was a reight leaving here about f> o'cIock >r Augusta. The young man.who as killed, was at the home of .Mr. ohn Davis, at Salak,, at midnight nd left presumably for home Whether he was asleep on 'he track r was struck while walking on the *ack is not known. *- "rv Jf WILL WOT RUN eiatar Tilhua Nat ta Stud far ReElediaa HIS WIFE OBJECTS Thifi PrartimllT AuinHxl ? _ # iiKTUHUII Turn* Now to Who Will Be Successor.-?'Though Not Sick, His Physical Conditio? Will Not Permit. That 13. R. Tillman will not seek re-election to the United States senate is practically assured. Close friends of the United States senator say that his health will not permit his return to politics. It is also Btated that Senator Tillman may never again enter the Senate Chamber of the United States, for, it is said on the best kind of authority, that his physical condition would not permit. Those who have visited Senator Tillman recently give the opinion that he is preparing to spend the rest of his days quietly on his Trenton farm. It is also said that Mrs. Tillman. knowing well the physical condition of Senator Tillman, would not permit. There have been many names sugahout the retirement of Senator Tillman from the senatorship since his illness in Washington last spring. Senator Tillman has given no public utterance as to whether he intends to leave the senate. It can almost be positively stated that he is through with politics in this state. Naturally the question follows: "Who will go to the United States Senate to succeed 13. R. Tilliuan?" There have bee many names suggested for the place, and manychanges in South Carolina politics are liable to take place in the space of t wo years. Among those who have been mentioned as likely to declare themselves for the position are Gov. M. F. Ansel. A. F. Lever, congressman from the Seventh district, and Lewis Parker. of Greenville. Neither of these have ever intimated that they would contest for senatorial honors, yet there are always men talked of for every position in politics, and these are men that have been talked of in South Carolina as likely opponents for the place of Senator Tillman. Gov. Ansel has stated that he intends to go back to Greenville when he leaves the office of governor and resume the practice of law. He was for many years solicitor in the Piedmont and has a broad acquaintance. ii0 ?<?*--? ' ? . .v, cicvieu io me uovernorship of South Carolina. Gov. Ansel is not a man to talk politics and has never intimated that he would follow the game after leaving the office of the chief executive of the State. Yet he is one of those mentioned. Lewis W. Parker is the best known and one of the most capable mill officers in the South. He has been a remarkable success in everything that he has undertaken. His name has been mentioned many times for the senatorship. A. F. I^ever. congressman from this district is also mentioned as a possible candidate for the position, lie has never made a statement. He defeated his opponent for congress recently by a large majority and has made an excellent congressman. There are others who might he mentioned. R. Goodwin Rhett. mayor of Charleston, being among them. The contest is two years away and others may rise up and claim the right for the position. CLAIMS THKY WKKK 8\VIM?LF.I>. (Iti/rnN of Warren, I**., Makes Verj Serious Charge. Alleging that they were induced to buy timber lands in North Carolina through false representations and though assured the title was clear and no squatters were living in it. the lard was at the time and lias since been in dispute by other ...... oiks, vv iiu h;iv?- oeen in possession. Win. J. Knupp. Otis S. Ilrown < and others of Warren, Pa., entered i in equity in the United States court i there Saturday against Oliver I). I Jackson of Norfolk and others :?s!<- i ing that defendants be ordered to i deliver to the plaintiffs $12.000 ' claimed to have been paid on the i lahds, together with $2,000 addition- ? al expenses Incurred by the plaint- < iffs in visiting Norfolk and in fight- | ing a suit in the United States court s of the western district of Pcnnsyl- 1 vania. The bill also asks that the s defendants be restrained from fur- 1 ther prosecuting the case in the | courts of the western district of I Pennsylvania until the action of the s plaint ilis Is settled. * I Delayed Vengeance I Charged with the assassination of Nicholas myers. near Ocala. Fla . ? ??rvk ago J .viccraney and Wni. Ayres were arrested on warran's < sworn out by r nephew of the dead i man. The death of Myers Is suppos- I ed to have been the result of lout? ' delayed vengeance for the murder ' and cremation of 1. O. Arms, twelve I years ago. < pippy : TOLL OF THE JUNGLE POISONOUS SNAKE CAUSES THOUSANDS OF DEATHS IN INDIA. War is Not One Sided for in the Same Period. ? 70,41)8 Serpents Were Killed. Poisonous reptiles, leopards and tigers caused the death ot over 21,000 people in the jungle and forest of India during the year of 1908. These figures of sudden and violent death are set forth in the Blue Book just issued which deals with statistics of the empire. The list goes Into detail and shows that in 1908 no fewer than 909 people fell victims to tigers, 302 to leopards, while wolves claimed 209 as their prey. "Other animals" killed 686. But the ravages of the eaters were nothing compared to those of the snake. The poisoned fangs of these reptiles caused the death of 19.738 lives. During the same period 98.307 cattle wore killed bv the same ..f prey. 'Bounties on the destruction of denizens of the forest during I bo year totalled $50,000 and the records indicate that 17,926 tigers and leopards fell before the rifle and that 70,498 snakes, roughly speaking four for every person they killed, wero destroyed. Thim the war goes on in India and while conditions are still very pad it is declared they are far better since bounties are paid than ever before. As might be expected in a land so densely populated as Indta, physical and mental infirmity is by no means rare. Altogether the total population afflicted is 584,489, out of the total of 294.361,056, amon* whom are only 3,000,000 Christians. lepers, male and female, number 107,340, blind over 300,000, and deaf mute6 about 150,000. The insane population Is only 65, 000, remarkably low proportion. There aro 55,841,315 houses In the great empire, though that does not approach the uumber of homes. The r.verage Indian does not indulge in overmuch letter writing Altogether the post office dealt w.'tb 876,255,832 letters, post cards iu?d parcels?an average of about th -e? per head of the population; but this seem*? less curious when it is remem'bered that all but 15,500,000 of India's 300.000.000 people ar? described as illiterate. JAPANESE MAKING PEARLS. They Have Discovered a Way to Moke Them CTjeap. ^ The existence of a secret method in making pearls if disclosed, would make them as plentiful and as cheap ? O h A Dowl- 0 v 14v i aid nu? un.ir aiiuon, wait told Saturday by Professor Bashford Dean of Columbia University, to the American Fisheries Society In session in New York. - - "In little harbor south of Japan there has been produced successfully by a Beeret process pearls that are of the finest tpye," said Professor Dean. "When I was at the University of Japan the Kmporer of Japan himself opened these oysters and took therefrom this new pearl I now exhibit, so there is no doubt about the genuine success of this experiment. But the secret has even been withheld from the Emperor, otherwise the whole pearl industry would be revolutionized. "Dr. N. C. Nishkawa. a graduate of the Uuiverslty of Tofclo, discovered the process and left his secret to his father-in-law, Mlkemento. one of the most famous pearl raisers of Japan. I surmise that the pearl Is formed by introducing scientifically a piece of mother of pearl into the shell around which the pearl ig formed. taking the place of the worm which nature uses to form the core of the naturally grown pearl." HEAVY IX>SS BY El BE. A Big Lumber Plant at Alcolu Parti ally heslroywl. The big saw mill plant of the I*. \V. Alderman & Sons Company Aicolu was destroyed by fire Friday morning at about f> o'clock. It seems that the fire started on the Interior of the building about the second floor and had gained considerable headway when discovered. The heavy rains Thursday afternoon ind night, together with the stillness if the morning, probably saved the lestruction of the entire lumber plant. Had the conditions not been *o favorable the planing mills, dry miiis, mucnine shops, together with several million feet of lumber, would liave gone up in flumes. It is impossible now to estimate just what lie loss will amount to. but it '? supposed that it will be something ike $100,000, with some insurance, several hundred employees have :>een thrown out of employment. * f m m m Tried to K?t Itooster. At Pes Moines. Iowa, a handsome hnnficler hat was almost destroyed, *nd its wearer. Miss Mary Livings[on. severely injured about the fat* when a big cat which had been hiding In a tret, overhead leaped upon tter with the evident intention of mating the rooster on the hat.