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242 W. COMMERCE 81.
QUARTEROFA MILLION PERSONS TAKE ITS ANwTTmi 1 nr 1 rrr
IDS ANGELES TIMES BUILDING
DYNAMITED-TWENTY ARE KILLED
GENERAL HARRI SON GRAY OTIS.
jS Owner of the Los Angeles Tinies, the plant of which was destroyed this morn
’ w ing- Has ward a hitter war on labor unions for many years.
■ SCORES JUMP THREE STORIES
■ List of Injured Heavy-Many Thought
■ to Haye Fallen Into Raging Fire
I Whei Floors Sank Under Load.
■LIST Of MISSING AND INJURED
•Special Dispatih.
■ Los Angeles Cal., Octi I. —An explosion that shook the city for
■ miles around, snrted a fire shortly after i o’clock this morning that
B completely desioyed the building of the Times Publishing Co. at
■ First street and’Broadway and caused the deaths of fully a score of
persons. "
■ In addition to the appalling total of mortality, dozens of cm
■ ployes suffered lurns and injuries that may serve to swell the death
J# list. Officers of the Tifnes-Mirror company declare the building was
Jr dynamited.,
Harry Chandler, vice-president and assistant general manager,
estimates the lost of life between fifteen and twenty and the loss to
the building nearly half a million dollars.
At daybreak this morning 200 firemen began digging in the ruins
of the destroyed building in an effort to rescue the dead. It is be
lieved by Harry Chandler, treasurer of the Times company, that
seventeen men and women are dead in the ruins. The bodies are
covered by ten feet of brick and heavy stone which fell from the
walls when the explosion occurred.
Harry Andrews, managing editor of the paper, is personally direct
ing the work of rescue.
Estimates of Dead Grow.
Estimates grow as the canvass of the
possible dead ia the Tinies explosion
apd fire. Sunday paper “stuffers”—
the men who put the various sections of
the Sunday paper together and mailers
—were just going on duty as the expk
eion occurred and how many of these
n.en were in the basement of the build
ing at the time of the explosion is a
matter of conjecture.
From an early estimate of fifteen
dead, the figures at this hour, have been
put up to from fifty to sixty. Thes?
tigures take in the possible “stuffers”
—young men usually drawn from the
schools who are anxious to make a lit
, te over-Sunday spending money—who
had entered upon their work at mid
night —an hour before the explosion oc
curred.
Burning Oil.
Exploration of ruins will be of little
avail within the next twenty-four or
forty-eight hours, owing to the heat of
burning oil and paper in the basement.
Two immense crude oil tanks located in
the alley and opening into th# rear of
the basement have poured their con
tents into the crevices under the debris
and will keep the ruins hot for many
hours to come. Vater can not quench
the flames and the heavy oil must burn
itself out.
At 7 o'clock this morning the fire
mon began the work of tearing down
the scarred six-story walls which the
flames left standing on two sides of ,
the block.
k According to the police and many |
ien who were in the building at the ।
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SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
AND GAZETTE
VOLUME 31. No. 251
Known Dead.
J. W. REAVER, stenographer.
HARRY L. CRANE, assistant telegraph
operator.
CHARLES E. LOVELACE, jumped from
third story of building after being badly
| burned. Sustained injuries from fall. Died at
j 7 o’clock this morning.
A. CHURCHILL HARVEY ELDER, edito
rial staff; jumped from second floor; inter
l nul injuries, from which he died.
The Dying.
W. CAMPBELL, fireman engine company
No. 17; '-aught under falling wall.
ALBERT G. SCNEIDER, passing; hit by
I flying brick; skull fractured.
Missing.
Grunt Moore, machinist; Frank Underwood
operator; Ed Wasson, ad man; John How
ard. ad man: Ernest Whitehead, linotype
operator; Carl Salada; Fred Llewellyn, lino
tjpo operator; Brown Johnson, linotype oper
tor; Ernest Jordan, ad man; J. C. Galligher,
W. G. Tunstall; Harvey Crane, assistant tele
graph editor; Elmer Frink, linotype rperator; |
I Eugene Cares, linotype operator; J. Wesley;
Bearer, stenographer; R. L. Sawyer, teleg
rapher; Charles Gulliver, compositor.
Injured.
D. S. Douglass, pressman, bad burns about
face, body and sprains.
8. W. Crabill, foreman, burned face and
arms; jumped from second story.
Mrs. J. B. Ulrich, proof reader; fell down
elevator shaft; bad cuts and bruises.
E. B. Aspinall, printer, jumped from sec
ond floor; broken wrist, bad scalp wounda.
Richard Goff, body burns.
August Kotsch, compositor, jumped from
second floor; badly burned; leg broken.
G. L. Salada, compositor: body burns.
8 F. (Hink, hit by flying debris while !
walking along street.
M. Westin cut shoulder.
A. G. Schwalm, blown into middle of the ■
street: cut about head and body.
H. Leonard, advertising agent: cut on the;
face.
Will Latta, stenographer, jumped fron* the j
second floor, body and face burns.
U. 8. G. Penta, jumped from second f’oor; '
broken arm and shoulder.
Randolph Ross, linotype operator; jurjped
from second floor; Beverly injured.
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% TWO SUSPECTS S
% ARE ARRESTED. *.
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S Special Dispatch. %
*• Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. I.— % j
% Two men were arrested on the S 1
% Broadway tunnel suspected of •»
% having set off the dynamite *•
S bomb which wrecked the offices %
V of the Los Angelea Times at 1 \
V o’clock this morning. They are S
S being held for identification as S
S two men who were seen skulk- ’«
% ing around the building earlier %
in the night. *■
The Tinies appeared this ",
*n morning, a four page edition, %
S printed at its auxiliary plant. S
WINNER OF
MOPEQUA
15 ENDICOTT
Special Dispatch.
Vanderbilt Cup Course, L. 1., Oct. 1.
—J. H. Gelnow, in a Fai car No. 46.
won the Wheatley Hills eweepstake,
ten laps, 126 miles. His time was 3
hours and 15 minutes.
Summary of the Massapequa sweep
stakes is as follows:
Winner —Bill Endicott, in a Cole
“30,” No. 51. Time, 2 hours 18 min
utes.
Second—Monte Roberts, in an Ab
bott-Detroit, No. 53. Time, 2 hours 23
minutes.
Third—Louis Edmunds, in Cole ‘ ‘ 30, ’ ’
No. 52. Time, 2 hours 27 minutes.
The winner only was posted and an
nounced for the Wheatley Hills race.
DRIVER AND HIS
MECHANIC HURT.
Associated Press.
Motor Parkway, Oct. 1. —The Ab
bott Detroit No. 56, entered in the
Massapequa class struck a telegraph
pole near Westbury, throwing the
driver, Padula, and the mechanician.
John Barber, and seriously injuring
both. Padula’s injuries are believed
to be fatal.
test
New Vessel Makes 29.75 Knots Per
Hour In Trial Trip.
Associated Press.
Boston, Oct. 1. —Finishing the last of
her builders’ acceptance trial test, a
four hours’ run at upward of 29.75
knots an hour, the torpedo boat destroy
er Perkins, has arrived in this harbor
from Bockland, Me.
The naval trial board which has
supervised the several trials of the past
week, declared when they landed that
the Perkins had fulfilled every require
ment and would go into commission
within the next few weeks. During the
four hours’ trial, the destroyer’s speed
was geared up to an average of 29. <8
knots an hour.
LAFOLLETTE denies it.
Says He Is Not a Dead One by Any
Means—Interested in Politics.
Special Dispatch. ,
Rochester, Minn., Oct. I.—Apparently
more interested in politics than the
1 state of his health and much annoyed
lat the newspaper accounts of his al
leged condition. Senator LaFollette de
nied both in words and actions yester-
Iday that he was a very sick man. He
| walked several blocks to the Mayo
offices for examination and in the af
ternoon took an automobile ride to the
Olmstead county fair. The senator at
tributes the false reports of his health
to his political enemies.
“There is a motive for making me
out a dead one,” he said, “and I be
lieve if these rumors were traced down
they would be found to be political in
origin.”
TRIBUNE ONE-CENT PAPER.
Associated .
Chicago, 111., Oct. I.—The Chicago
Tribune in today’s issue will announce
its reduction in price from two cents
to one cent a copy. The two-cent price
has been maintained for many years.
PIONEER DIES.
Special Diapatch. . _ ,
Henderson, Tex., Oct. I.—Jacob
Reinmiller, a pioneer ’ had resided
here 50 years, died auu ienly 4oday at
the table from heart dise.se, at the
ege of 87 years. He fought in the
Franco-German and civil wars.
EAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1,1910.
NEWCOMERS CAN
VOTE AI ELECTION
FOR COMMISSION
Terrell Election Law Gets Them
In as Qualified Under Ex
emption Clause.
TELLS HOW TO PROCEED
Law Is Made Plain for Benefit
of Those Who May Have
Been Misinformed,
WILL MEAN HEAVY VOTE
ZA S the county tax collector is
on the job today and is
suing the first state poll
tax receipts, it is perhaps perti
nent to observe that with the
opening of his windows the last
chance to pay a poll tax legally
through an agent expired. Here
after any man who wishes to get
the piece of paper that is a prere
quisite to voting in the charter
election and other elections of
1911 must appear in person to ap
ply for it.
Prior to this day it has been possible
for a citizen of San Antonio to appoint
an agent to pay poll tax in case it was
his bona fide intention to leave his
precinct and remain away throughout
the four months of October, November,
December and January, thesa being the
only months during which state poll tax
receipts may be issued. But he must
actually remain away to avail himself
even of this opportunity. If he leaves
his precinct after today—the first of
October—he loses his privilege, even
though he may already have named his 1
agent to pay poll tax.'
Must Pay in Person.
From now on through the four
months the rule that applies is the fol
lowing:
“Persons who reside in cities of 10,-
000 (or more) inhabitants must pay
their poll tax in person. If they are
exempt from the payment of poll tax
they must appear in person before the
tax collector prior to February Ist and
secure a certificate of exemption.”
The payment of poll tax is a condi
tion precedent to the right to Vote in
this state, and failuJe to get a poll tax
receipt within the four months of Oc- 1
tober, November, December rnd Jan- I
uary will bar a citizen from casting a
ballot in any one of the important elec
tions to be held during 1911—the com
mission charter election in Februarv,
the election to dispose of Callagha'n ’
and his manana Methods in Mav and 1
the election to settle the prohibition 1
question throughout the state in the 1
fall. 1
What It Costs.
It costs $1.50 for the state poll tax
and $1 for the city poll tax—s2.so in
» I—to qualify for the trio of great
elections. The man who does not think
it good value for the money is indeed
a tight wad. And anyway, if be avoids
paying his poll taxes before Februarv
Ist., and so loses the right to vote, he
still owes the inoney to both the citv
end county and is liable to be forced
to pay it afterwards.
During the first weeks is the time to
go to the city tax collector and to the
county tax collector aho, for later on
the rush for poll tax receipts is cer
tain to be annoying. More poll taxes
will be collected this year than ever be
(Continued on Page s—Third Column)
Aviators Break Speed
and Height Records
Special Dispatch.
Bony, France, Oct. I.—Aeroplane
records for both speed and height were
broken here today. In a monoplane of
his own construction Hubert Latham
flew forty-one miles in thirty-five min
utes, and in a Farman biplane Wey
mann reached an altitude of 9228 feet.
SEATTLE CHIEF REMOVED
Wappenstein Goes Out on Account of
Charges Against Him.
Special Dispatch.
Seattle, Wash., Oct. I.—Charles W.
Wappenstein was removed from the of
fice of chief of police by Acting Mayor
Max Wardalh last night two hours be
fore C. Gill returned
from hl--three weeks’ yachting cruise
in northern waters.
The action taken by the acting may
or is a result of various charges made
that Chief Wappenstein had failed to
enforce the law in the restricted dis
trict and allegations of laxness and ir
regularities in the police force.
VANDERBILT CUP
RACE WON BY GRANT
VANDERBILT
CUP WINNER
HARRY F. GRANT.
♦ *»- '
DEHYMEL WENT
INTO THE DITCH
Tobin DeHymel, the hope of Texas
in general and San Antonio in parti
cular in the Vanderbilt cup contest this
morning did net figure in the running
of the event after the first half of the
contest had been run as he unfortunate
ly met with an accident.
Up to the twelfth circuit of the
course DeHymel was in sixth position
and driving finely. His car was in per
fect order and there was never a miss
of the engine. In fact, from the man
ner in which the car was performing
during the early part of the race, the
partisans of the youthful San Antonian
had hopes that he would be up with
the leaders when the final burst came.
But Fate dealt the Texan a hard blow
I while he was negotiating the twelfth
I lap. In rounding a curve he threw a
wheel and the car slid into the ditch.
When the accident happened the- car
was going at a fast clip, and while both
DeHymel and his mechanician were
thrown from the ear neither man was
injured. The ditching of the car put
the machine out of the race, as the
crew were unable to make the necessary
repairs in time to continue in the event
and expect to finish near the leaders.
COMPLAINS OF CLERKS
Says Strikers Attacked Son, Who Is
Taking Place of One.
Sprr’al Dispatch
Shreveport, La., Oct. I.—Superin
tendent Hearn of the Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacific division of the
Queen & Crescent railroad today filed
an affidavit charging striking railw-iy
clerks with a cowardly attack on his
son John and Carlton Barksdale, tra
veling passenger agent, wdio are filling
the places of clerks. This is the first
suit to develop in the strike.
❖ LEADERS FOR FIRST HOUR ❖
* ❖
♦ No. 29 —Marquette-Buick, Chev- ❖
rolet, time 41:46. ♦
❖ No. 27—Marquette Buick, Bur- ❖
♦ man, 42:37. 4.
No.. 25—Marmon, Dawson, +
+ time 43:42. <j>
4- No. 22 —Pope-Hartford, Ding- ❖
<• ley, 44:26. 4.
♦ No. 18—Alco, Grant, 45:18. •>
+ No. 9—Amplex, Jones, 47:07. +
+ ♦
BRIGANDS-RURALS FIGHT.
Special Dispatch.
Havana, Oet I.—Dispatches from
Camaguey province tell of a fight be
tween a band of brigands led by Solis
El Guerrillero and rural guards, in
which one rural and one bandit were
killed and several bandits wounded.
Uprisings of new bauds are reported.
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Wins for Second Censecutive Time
in an Alco in 4 Hrs, 15 Min., 58
Seconds Over 278 Mile Course.
THREE KILLED AND MANY HURT
Dawson in Marmon Second, Aitken
Third—Stone Hurt and Mechani
cians Bacon and Miller Killed.
Associated Press.
Motor Park Way, Oct. r.—Grant’s average time for the race
was 65.4 miles per hour. The previous record for the course
was 64.3 miles per hour, made by George Robertson in 1908.
Special Dispatch.
Vanderbilt Cup Course, L. 1., Oct. I.—Harry F. Grant, in an Alco,
today, for the second consecutive time, won the Vanderbilt cup, the
blue ribbon event of the American automobile world. The race was
the most spectacular and disastrous ever run over the famous Lone
Island course.
Three men were killed, two of them on the track, at least twe
others were fatally injured and a score or more received lesser hurts.
Grant s time was four hours, fifteen minutes and fifty-eight sec
onds. 6
Joe Dawson, in a Marmon car, was second, twenty-five seconds
behind the winner, and Jack Aitken, in a National, third. Dawson s
time was 4:16:23.51 and Aitken’s 4:17:29.72.
In the race today nine minutes and forty-four seconds were taken
off last year’s time of the Vanderbilt cup.
SPECTACULAR IN THE
EXTREME WAS RACE
Taking of Toll of Lives Begins Early
in the Day When Crowds Pour
Out to Course.—Wonderful
Time Made.
Special Dispatch.
Vanderbilt Cup Race Track, Oct. 1. —
Four dead, two fatally injured and sev
eral others hurt was the tale of disaster
piled up half an hour after the open
ing of the great Vanderbilt cup race
this morning.
Harold V. Stone, the driver of the
Columbia car in the cup race, reported
killed, is in the Nassau hospital with a
crushed leg and probably will recover.
The leg will have to be amputated,
however. Mechanician William Bacon
was killed.
The mad, all night rush of thousands
of autoists to the. course, was respons
ible for another of the deaths and sev
eral of the injured.
Before daylight a big touring car,
driven by Ferdinand D’Ziuba, New
York manager of the Pope-Hartford
Automobile Co., and containing his wite
and five other passengers, crashed into
a telegraph pole on the Wheathley road
and was demolished. D'Ziuba was
killed, and all the other occupants ser
iously injured.
At Garden City, L. I. another auto
mobile containing several persons was
wrecked and two of the occupants were
injured.
300,000 Persons There.
It was said that nearly 300,000 per
sons lined the course at the start. The
cars with even numbers occupied one
side of the starting and those with odd
numbers the other.
• The chance of trouble with the con
testants was with the crowds that hued
the course. The turns at Massapequa
Hicksville and Westbury were hard
propositions and so were the bridges
and ruts but worst of all was the
crowds that shoved up to the danger
line and were kept from the course
itself only by the strenuous efforts of
Pinkertons and special officers.
Rain Falls.
Heavy clouds hung low and a little
rain fell at intervals, but the more
I than twelve miles of humanity massed
about the twisting circuit, refused to
have its spirits dampened and a con
tinuous applause followed the flying, ;
dust-hidden machines in their course.
The original plau of starting the cars
fifteen seconds apart, was adhered to 1
and it required seven and three quar- ।
ters minutes to get them all going.
Two Races Run. •
In addition to the Vanderbilt cup ।
race which calls fur 22 laps, or 378.8
miles no the shortest time, the Wheat- I
ley Hills sweepstakes, and the Massa- ;
pequn riveepstakes, also were scheduled
to be under way bfore 8 o’clock, mak
ing a gigantic merry of ran-1
ing miy hines.
The (Wheatley Hills event was to
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S t 3 ” °’ c loek and the Massapequa
Ihe course was policed more thor
oughly than ever before. In addition
to a cordon of Pinkertons, 200 special
officers kept the crowd out of rhe
danger zone.
Vanderbilt There.
William K. Vanderbilt Jr., the r unor
of the cup, and Referee Frace, appeared
at the course before 5 o’clock and was
in conference with Starter Wagner up
to 6 o’clock.
It was announced that car 44, u> rhe
Wheatley Hills trophy, a Carreja, had
been disqualified and would not start.
Livingston and Mulford, the latter iu
a Lozier, lined up at the big cup
event at 5:55 in their cars 1 and 2
respectively and got off in that order.
Chevrolet Stalled.
The first hitch came when Chevrolet
had his start when the engine of his
ear No. 29 stalled at the signal tu go.
He got off ten seconds late. All the
other starts were perfect. Livingston
was held up by mechanical trouble just
long enough to give Mulford the honor
of being first around. The big Lozier
car's time was posted as 11 minutes
flat. Mechanical and tir trouble de
layed Schiefler, Hanshue and Wisbard
in the early running.
The announcers were unusually slow
in announcing the official timeF The
third lap Mulford’s time was 33
min utes.
Three Laps in 31 Minutes.
Chevrolet made his first three laps in
JI minutes, nearly 75 miles an hour,
beating Mulford's time for the distance,
the early performance was a magnifi
cent speed duel between Mulfora and
Jhevrolet. The four rounds were mane
jy Chevrolet in 42 minutes with Mui
'ord two minutes behind.
When Chevrolet flashed over the
nark at the end of his fifth lap he
vas given a great ovation. His time
vas 52:07, in which he had covered
13.02 miles. He was closely fulfilled
>y his partner, “Wild Bob” Burman,
n Buick car No. 27, whose time was
3 minutes flat. Mulford’s time was
5 minutes flat.
Stne Is Killed.
Shortly before 8 o’clock word was
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PRIZES FOR WINNER fl;
OF VANDERBILT RACE. -■
The prize in the big raee was 9
; the W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. cup, 9
k and an additional award of s2iMh) 9
in gold to the winner and an
award of the donor's trophy for 9
permanent ownership. It is also 9
conditionally offered $l4OO in 9
cash prices. The Wheatlev Hills 9
and Xiassapequa sweepstakes 9
' carried a trophy and SIOOO to
: winner. . v
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