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- 'ti ";- "w1 " Wr "Wftl flityMi- .' -ifct , 'jUrV TMISPFOUD MAIL TRIBUNE, amPlfQRi), OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 10.10. i- 7"y'fifB:v,"'tT?Bfr! r i v h , Hi". i ijft' " I- -i, i 'id. i rj i n aji " NAT ORCHESTRA ' Fli E ORGANIZATION If you havo been down to the Nnt ntorlurn any time In tho past week you know that tho orchestra is giving the patrons very high class music. Tlio orchestra is composed ot somo noted musicians and ovory ono has a fino record. Piano II. Lnllann, solo pianist for Iho St. Francis-hotel ot San Fran Cisco for yeirs. Qrnduatcd from tho Royal conservatory of music of Ber Jln Hnd was a star pupil under Eu gene DeAlbor. Thombono Louis K. Arnaud, solo trgmbono with Berger's Rayol Ha waiian band. Violin tsaduro Franck, late lead- j tt of tho Chutes and old Wigwam (hen tors of Snn Francisco. Clarinet Slg. F. Ullssl, who came to San Francisco as solo clarinet with the Lnmbardl Opera company. THREE KILLED IN RACE. (Continued from Pnco 1.) crushed. William Bacon, mechanician; head crushed. Martin Lovlsohn, spectator; both legs and body crushed. Joseph Cook, spectator; skull frac tured. Thomas Miller, specator; legs ground off. "Poterie, spectator; ribs brok en. August Gramuttln, chauffeur; in ternally hurt. William Peterson, spectator; face crushed in, skull fractured. Tho Injured. Louis Chevrolet, driver Marquette Bulck; bruised. Mrs. Ferdinand d'ZIeuva; leg brok en. Mrs. Poterie, spectator; internally hurt. August Seeback, spectator; cut, bruised. Edward H. Brown, spectator; hip dislocated. Cornell Ree, spectator; broken leg. Five women in car struck by Chev rolet; injuries unknown. Five passengers In d'Zieuva au tomobile; injuries unknown. Crushed Under Car. Harold Stone, driver of a Colum bia, was crushed to death under his car when it became unmanageable, leaped from the course, tore through the fence and dropped over a 50-foot embankment. Stone is a Pacific coast manager for the Columbia and his homo is in Los Angeles. Ho was married last June. His bride sat in the grandstand watching the race. When he did not appear she became anxious and telephoned to various parts of the course asking tidings of him. Found Under Car. The officials did not know of the accident to Stone, but when the tele phone message was received, cent two men on motorcycles to find the miss ing car. The men found a gap in the fence near the Meadowbrook bridge. They dismounted and found the Co lumbia bottom side up lying in a gul ly 50 feet deep. Stone, with his me chanician, William Bacon, were pin ioned under tho car. Stone. was dead when the rescuers arrived. Bacon was taken to a hospital. He will die. For half an hour no one had the courage to tell Mrs. Stone of the ac cident and sho laughed and chatted with friends in tho grandstand while the rescue party carried the body of her crushed and mangled husband from the gully to a hospital. Wifo Collapses. When the nows finally reached her she collapsed and Is now under the care of physicians. Sho drove over tho course yesterday wjth her hus band. Stone was only 21 years old. He drovo tho big car In tho raco merely for advonturo. Ho Is said to have received a salary of $250 weekly for his services as manager for tho Co lumbia company. Itain to Blame. Tho numerous accidents are as cribed partly to tho condition of the courso. A driving rain during the night softoned tho roadway so that the Hlcksvllte turn was plowed a foot deep by Bkldding cars, After tho fifth lap only tho most reckless driv ers uttomptod to tako this turn nt full speed. Tho Westbury turn was In equally bad condition. Tho c6urse there was so soft that the police guarding the track kept tho specta tors 50 feet back, Car of Women Hit. Driving 75 miles an hour, Chevro let's Marquotto-Bulck etruck a tour ( ing- car loaded with women on the Vaudorbllt course. Tho touring car was overturned and Chevrolet's car somersaulted. Charles Miller, mechanician, was burled under tho car and killed. Chevrolet and tho occupants of the touring car oscaped injury. Chevrolet wns thrown clear of his car as it overturned. Durmnn's Bulck snapped a driving i chain as lfrounded n curvo nt Woat- bury Tho chain flow back nnd struck Howard Hall, mechanician,, render lug him unconcclous. Ho was rushed . to Nassau hospital, whoro it was said his injuries woro sM-ious. Cnr Runs Wild. Ferdinand D'Zlcuvn, hla wifo nnd five men, riding in their automobile toward tho raco course, woro thrown" out when tho machine got away onj a nut nnn nu wero injured. u aieuvn died en routo to tho hospital. His wlfo'a loft leg' was fractured nnd sho was critically Injured otherwise. Grant's time was 4:15:5S. Daw son in Marmon, was second, finish ing 25 seconds behind Grant and A! kens In a National, third. F. A. L. machines wero first and second in the Whcatley Hills sweep stakes. Race Is Exciting. The race itself was one of tho most exciting ever run over thorLong Is- J 'anl course Thousands fcAw tho 31 racers en tered for tho Vanderbllt cup start at daybreak toda;. Rain threatened to interfere with tho race, but at 5:45 tho drivers wero sent away before a crowd of tremendous proportions. It was estimated that halt a million spectators lined tho course. Thou sands ot automobiles and scores of special trains carried many enthusi asts. Thirty-one Vanderbllt entrants ar rived at the starting point boforo 5:15 o'clock. Livingstone In a Na tional, was tho first to leave the mark. Mulford, in a Lozler, follow ed. Chevrolet, in his anxiety to get away, killed his motor and was forced to re-crank, losing a few val uable seconds. Many Narrow Escapes. Around tho course the racers flew, the big cars fairly eating up the dis tance. Several collisions and acci dents were missed by hair breadths. The reckless chances Liken by the drivers drew an immense throng. It Is estimated that 20,000 automobiles lined the course. In spito of the ef forts of the Plnkertons and the dep uties wifo patrolled tho courso thou sands gathered at the corners, where the greatest danger was, and many saw the accidents that marred tho races. Grant's victory was won by plug ging along at an even pace after the start of the race. He performed no spectacular feats. BOMB UNDER-RESIDENCE. (Continued from Page 1.) street they noted that the clock at tached was running. They dropped it In the street and fled. Two min utes later the machine exploded with a detonation that terrified the en tire fashionable Westlake district. A guard has been thrown about the Otis home. Attempt on Secretary. F. H. Zeehandalaar, secretary of the Merchants and Manufacturers' as sociation of Los Angeles, reported to the police this morning that dyna mite had been discovered beneath a porch at his homo in the suburbs of this city. A detail of officers was dispatched to the scene. The dynamite sticks wero connect ed with the electric battery, to which was attached an alarm clock. According to tho police, it was ono of the most ingenious infernal ma chines that ever was brought to tho attention of tho local department. Tho alarm was set to go off at 1 o'clock, the hour at which the explo sion at tho Times building occurred. Clock Wound Tight. Tho clock was so tightly wound, tho police who took chargo of the machine said, that the alarm was prevented from workln, probably saving tho llcves of every person In tho house. The machine was found this morn ing by Miss Elizabeth Wilder, a guest at tho Zeehandalaar. home. Officers who wero sent to tho Zee handalaar homo found 14 pounds ot dynamlto Jolly, connected by wires with a battery, concealed In an adja cent clump of bushes. Detectives were immediately put on the case and the explosive taken to police headquarters for evidence. UNIONS OFFER REWARD. (Continued irom PaKQ 1.) action in tho matter. "But, regardless of what these bod ies may do, tho offer hereby made In tho amount of J7500 for the appre hension and conviction of these dy namiters, if dynamiters thoy bo, will stand ready and available' at any tlmo wo aro called upon. (Signed) "O. A. TVEITMOE." "Unions Offer Aid. LOS ANGELES, CaJ Oct. 1.- By authority of the board, of direc tors of the local typographical union, Ralph L. Crlswell, president of tho union, sent tho following to Managor II. G. Chandler of tho Times: "In view of tho terrible accident, resulting in tho demolition of tho Times, plant, the Loa Angeles branch of tho International Typographical union hereby offers you its assistance In any manner desirable In publish ing tho Times during this period of stress." Differences between the Times aiul tho typographical union woro respon sible for tho first broach between tho Times nnd organized labor general ly, which l;,r developed Into opon warfare. Crlswell Active. Ralph Crlswell, president of tho Los Angoles branch of tho typograph ical union, vslted tho offices of Dis trict Attorney Fredericks this morn ing and domnnded, In behalf of his organization, that tho explosion bo t thoroughtly investigated. Tho following statement was Issu ed this morning by C. F. Grow, bus iness agent of tho machinists lodgo, j No. 311, International Association of! Machinists: 'We Fight Fnlr." "I desire to state that tho unfor- tunnto happening at tho Times plant , caused tho sympathy of every union J man in tho city of Los Angeles, for ' the loss of life and the injury to em ployes. That any man affiliated with tho labor unions here could ?mvo anything to do with this explosion nnd flrel s out of the question. Wo mnko no war with bombs or othor weapons than tho usual propagan da. We fight tho enemies of union I labor under tho recognized economic laws. Violence has always been con- demned, and wo do not recognize it as a means of success. Tho unions, here aro ready nnd anxious to aid the police and other authorities by ' every means in their power to find! the cause of the explosion at tho Times building." Deplore 'Tragedy. Through George Gunrey, who has been In charge of the brewers and Iron workers' strike here, tho Los Angeles unionists this morning is sued a statement branding as utterly without foundation tho charges pub lished by tho Times to the effect that union men were responsible for tho explosion, "Wo deeply deplore tho terrible accident and resultant loss of life," the statement read, "but brand as false the charge thattunlon mon wero in any way responsible for tho af fair. "We condemn violence, and un equivocally deny that any person or persons connected with organized la bor had anything to do with last night's outrage." Will Assist Officers. In view of tho fact that the Times, in its edition published after tho ox plosion, charged that the unionists wore responsible, Crlswell declared that the members of the typographi cal union would assist the district at torney In any way ho asked In sift ing the case. Tho Times appeared today under a seven-column banner head: "Unionists' Bomb Wreck Times." Crlswell stated that if any union men were employed In tho Times me chanical departments they wero in the building when the explosion oc curred. He refused to admit that union men wero employed at tho Times. Tho paper was supposed gen erally to make no exceptions in its open shop rules and no union men were supposed to bo employed hero. A member of tho local olectrotyp ers' union said today that four of tho stereotypers employed by the Times were union men. Each of tho four, ho declared, is missing. PAPER BLAMES UNIONS. (Continued from Page 1.) was as follews: General Otis Wires. "Imperial Junction, Cal., Oct. 1, 1910 Harry Chandler, The Times, Lob Angeles, Cal: Your wlro with Its terrible news only reached mo this morning. Am amazed at tho desper ation of tho criminal conspirators In destroying tho Times building and slaying Its loyal defenders, whoso loss I deeply deplore, but tho Times will live on, bravely depondlng tho essential principles of industrial free dom under tho law, which must yet triumph In tho entire nation. I will bo homo at 3:30. Meet mo at tho station. "HARRISON GRAY OTIS." Managing Editor Andrews supple mented a statement made early to day In which ho attempted to placo tho responsibility for tho horror by saying: "Dynamite and bombs and flro. Very fitting weapons for such a deed. Wo had received numerous threats that this dastardly deed would bo attempted. Tho olemente that con spired to perpetrate tho horror must not bo permitted to prosecute their unlawful campaign." A folio edit'on of the Times was printed at a branch offico this morn ing. It was quickly gobbled up by tho thousands that thronged 'the streets in tho neighborhood of tho wrecked building. TIMES ENEMY OF UNIONS. (Continued from1 Page 1.) Editor Andrews, these relations have almost reached a critical point sinco IrjHV'tl .?. .Jiff 3Youi' hat and coat is about all that is seen of you whenever you are, on the street, and if you pureh ase them here you aro suro to feelsatisfied that thoy aro as fine as can be found in any city in tho land. PRICES ARE SMART CLOTHING From the World's best makers $10 to $40 5When you come hero to look at a suit of clothes you can rest assured that we will show tho best that we have in the shop and this season we can show you a larger assortment than has over been shown in Mcdford before. GOOD HONEST VALUES v m the Inauguration of tho browory workers and Iron workers' strikes hero more than six months ago. Less than a month ago a stand of 50 rifles were purchased and Install ed In the tower room on tho fourth floor ot tho building. This fact had been kept secret. It was admitted by Andrews today. Last wcok a caso'of sawed-off shot guns, which had stood In tho manag ing editor's offico, was movod into tho reporters' room. MEN BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS. (Continued from Pauo 1.) ERNEST JORDAN, aged 32, lino type operator, married nnd ono child. FRANK UNLERWOOD, nged 48, printer, married and ono child. J. WESLEY REAVES, stenograph er. R. L. SAWYER, nged 34, telegraph operator, married and tvo children. HARRY L. CRANE, aged 38, as sistant telegraph editor, marrlod nnd ono child. CHURCHILL HARVEY-ELDER, night editor. CHARLES GULLIVER, aged 3C, compositor, married. CARL SALLADA, aged 32, lino type operator. Mirny Missing. Following tho explosion Andrews employed a battory of mossengor boys to aid In locating tho missing. Nono of tho nbovo had roturned to their homes nt 8 o'clock this morn ing, and Andrews believes that all lost their lives. Tho explosion occurred within a few minutes nftor tho half hundred employes working on an oarly ohift had left tho building. Less than a hundred porsons, Including tho me chanical force and tho editorial forco, keeping "late watch," woro In tho building, Although tho management of tho Times has employed ovory posslblo moans to learn of tho employes who woro In. tho building when tho ox ploslon occurred, 14 still aro unac counted for, and it is bollevcd thero Ib llttlo chanco that thoy aro not bur ied beneath tho ruins of tho building. Police at Work. Police Investigation of tho affair Is undor way. Tho authorities re fused to divulee tho clues that thoy havo unearthed, Mayor Aloxander this afternoon of fered a Toward of $2B00 for tho ap prehension of any person or persons connectod in any way with tho ox-plosion, Fall and Winter tHEHATand JWo aro pleased ' are here, and thoy RIGHT INVESTIGATE THE TOGGERY, of course Wild rumorB woro spread broad-. building t'lls morning. Resolutions cast this nttcrnpon that tho First Nn- v;wo passed domnnnlng a thorough tlonnl bank building and tho Mnlor 'sifting or the r.ffnlr. browory had boon dynamited. Crowds Hiram Johnson, republican cnndl rushed hysterically to both places. l " ovornor of California, to- Roth rumors woro without founda tion. Natlonnl Guard Itendy. Chief of Pollco Galloway and Gen eral Robert WankowskI of tho Cal- Ifornin national guard conferred this aftornoon on tho advisability of hold lng tho stato militia, assembled hero to go to tho Atascadoro oncampmont, for sorvlco hero In enso dlsordor fol lows the explosion. It was docldod to mako no changes In tho guards' plans. Three hundred mon woro employed by tho board of public works to search tho ruins of tho TlmoB build ing for bod.oo of tho doad,. Thoy woro put at work nt 3 o'clock In ro lays of 100. Thoy will work throughout tho night. Four Stories High. Tho Times building was a four story brick and stono structuro at tho Intersection of First street nnd Broadway. It was completely razed by tho oxploslon and fire. Chiof of Pollco Galloway this morning Issuod tho following state ment: "Thnt tho Times building was wrocked by dynamlto scorns certain from all my mon can learn. Thoro aro about 100 patrolmon on duty at tho flro now, and rnqst pf tho dctoc tivoo. Wo havo found somo things that ecom to us to point to tho au thors of this calamity. Whothor thoy will end In nny real result It Is Im possible to toll now' but I know that whothor thoy do or not, tho pollco will keep at It without rest until this wholo matter Is laid bare." Council MeutM. Mayor Aloxandor tills morning call ed i special mooting of tho city coun- en to uiscusfl ino oxpiosion. unioi o( Pollco Galloway and tho council- hiah vim nnmttiAnn1 tP mnuunlnfrnla mon woro summoned by mes3oIngors nnd ordorod to roport nt tho council chamber In tho city hall at onco. "All I can say now regarding this awful thing Is that ovory dopart mont of tho city govornmont will bo called upon to do its sharo to sift tho mnttor to tho bottom. If human ngoncy wns responsible for this, wo will find It out," said Mayor Alox andor, , I'lita Up 925,000. Tho city council this morning, In oxocutlvo cccslon, appropriated $25,- uoo to no used to invostiEato tno ox- ploclon that wrecked tho Times TWO ARTICLE Most important to men In tho The Overcoat to announce that, the now Mill and AVinter styles are tho swollost that we have ever seen. i in 4 -- -- r:. .w i- . S3' I rXlWiS TWF, W 7 ? - ' M nfsprasa BiutrtiiSlrnn&eiotlicB SMUHirtnrrj-J .!. day called off hln onga;omostn hero tonight when ho hoard tho rumor thnt Gunorcl Otis was doad. At tho city hall, whoro tho an- j nounceinout thnt Johnson hnd callod his engagements off, wan sunt, it was j 8tntod w cnn,,tlnt0i thr01IBh prlvno advices, had vorlflod ho ru mor thai Otis is doad, Clm'kH Htoppwl. Tho explosion occurred at 1:07 thin morning. Clocks in adjacent build ings wero stopped nt that hour. Tho dotonntlon was henrd for miles j around tho city. Tho concussion .shattered windows for a radius of sovoral blocks, Within flvo minutes nftor tho first ! explosion, which appeared to bo fol lowed by othor convulsions, tho on tiro building wns a mass of flnmos. Tho windows of tho uppor floorn woro quickly crowded with terrified mon and women. Two mon, appa rently running from tho torrlblo flamos within, plunged llko hurdlors through a third floor window, both falling botwoon Btroot car tracks 40 foot away. Their crumplod and broken bodies woro quickly surround ed by gaping crowds. Tho pollco woro compollod to ubo night sticks to forco back tho mob. norrlbly Maimed. Mon riiflhod from tho twlstod door wayn, ukoIoss arms dangling nt their sides, and in sovoral cases tholr faces soared and dlstortod ulmost boyond recognition. Wlthin 20 minutes, wlvou nnd mothors of tho mon who woro nt work In tho building woro hysterical ly besieging tho pollco linos. Tears of Joy whon como loved ono Joined an anxloty-strickon group on tho out sldo of tho building woro mlnglod . wUh tll0 crIo8 of anmM. from ,- won,ou-8 pH wjl0n Uloy woro l0(, to ' . - ... wnoro brolcon nnd unconscious bod- les lay awaiting hospital ambulances, Nets Savo Many. Whon tho flromon nrrlvod nets woro quickly strotchod bonoath tho windows, At least a dozen lives woro saved by theso contrivances, Tho oxploslon which caused tho catastropho ovldontly had boon plac ed directly bononth tho composing room, Tho floor of this dopnrtmont was llftod through tho colling, llno typo operators and compositors bolng hurled through tho walla Into tho Htroot, immediately tho building was .onvolopod in a sheet of flames. Season 1 1 f tutthi i ijjjij. ,ii ri Wf2 , ' it, I rn(.Mm9Aii(tfckft ft Within ton mltiutoa oscapo from tho upper floors wan Impossible. Dozens of torrlflod employes leaped from tho second story windows to tho pavement. , Among theso wnB Night Editor Harvey Kldor, Ho was se riously nnd purhnps fatally hurt. Flro Hoys Out. Every pltco of flro apparntun In tho city answered tho gonornl alarm. Tho flames woro gotton under control nftor they hnd nlmoflt totally destroy ed tho great hoap of dobrls result ing front tho explosion. A pollco drnsnot hns boon sprond about tho city. Chlof Gallowny de clared this morning thnt sovornl clues rognrdlng tho identity of tho mon rosponslblo for tho oxploslon havo boon unonrthod. Offlrors of tho North End pollco station, less then n block from tho TlmoB building, saw sovoral mon run ning from an alloy In tho roar of tho structuro threo minutes botpro tho oxploslon. Tho explosion nppoarod to havo contorod nonr tho nlloy from which tho mon appeared. Two Aro Arrested, Two mon woro arrosted bb sus pects shortly after daybroak, Tho pollco rofiiflod to roveal tholr names. George Hobor, nn omployo"ln tho composing room of tho Times, was, ono of tho fow men In tho building nt tho tlmo of tho oxplnnlon. Ho told tho following story of tho nffalr: "Tho oxploslon lltor'nlly lifted tho floor of tho composing room through tho roof or tho building. I snw mon hurled Into tho air to fall amid tho wrockngo of llnotypo machlnos and twlstod flooring, At least six llno- ' typo mnchlnoB woro slmttorod as . though tho oxploslvo had boon m- sldo of thorn, 1 Torrlblo Hceno. ' "Mon covered with blood woro running through tho room searching frantically ror tho doors bororo I had rocovorod from tho ehoclc sufficient ly to think of saving mysolf. "Flames flllod tho room boforo I had run 30 foot. Tho hont waa aw ful, I novor oxpoctod to roach tho nlr nllvo, . "Almost undor my foot I found two llnotypo oporntorH unconscious, I called for holp, and with somo of tho othor follows wo carrlod thorn to n stairway. "Wo novor would havo got thorn outsldo If tho flromon had not nr rlvod Just then, "I don't know how many mon woro killed. Thoro must havo boon at least a rtjozon. I can't soo now nny ono In tho uppor floora oscapod," tf WW WWW -', . flH