The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-09-27
DYNAMITE WRECKED
TENNESSEE TOWN
Half of JeiIico Wiped Out as it
Swept by a Cyclone.
BODIES BURIED IN THE RUINS
Exploding Car Kills Twelve and Fir.
jurcS More Than 2OO-Damage
to Property Estimated at q Mill
lion Dollars.

lion Dollars.
Knoxville. Tenn.-The town of Jel-
lico, which lies partly in Tennessee
and partly in Kentucky, was all but
wiped off the map at s O'Clock a. m.
by the explosion of a carload of dyna-
mite.
At least twelve persons are dead,
fifty are seriously injured and moro.
than 100 are slightly injured.
The property loss will exceed ST.
100000. nearly, 1000 people are
homeless and practically every bust
ness house and factory in the town
| was demolished.
A great hole, fifty feet deep and
100 feet across, marks the spot where
the railroad car which contained the
420 cases of dynamite stood.
Buildings a mile away from the x
plosion were shaken and some were
demolished.
The dead may reach twenty-five.
The telegraph offices were de-
stroyed, and but for the fact hat the
long distance telephone Office was far
from the explosion, the town would
have been completely shut off rom
the outside world.
The news was telephoned to this
city within ten minutes after the eX-
plosion, which was heard for forty
miles, and a special train win a
score of physicians and newspaper
men made a quick run to the scene.
Relief was also sent from nearby
towns. tHH -F 10 ~
Tho work of ~rescuing victims bur
led under fallen buildings was begun
at once. Flyi-S debris, pieces Of
timber and iron, seem to have been
most disastrous to life and limb, a
number of those killed being distant
from the scene of the explosion.
Tbs car of dynamite was standing
On a Louisville and Nashville Rail-
way siding, having just arrived, con-
signed to John L. O'Connor, a rail-
road contractor, at Clearfield, Ky.
Cars were being switched, and a car
loaded with pig iron vas backed into
the dynamite ar, causing the ex-
plosion.
While this is the story generally
believed, the official report e out
by the Southern hallway officials says
that several men were shooting at a
target fastened to the dynamite car,
anu IudC me UulletS SET OH InS OyuG-
mite.
The list of known dead comprises
George Atkins, thirty years old, line
man for the East Tennessee Tele-
phone Company; John Cook, fifty
years old, car inspector for the South
srn Railway: Walter Rodgers, TWEEN
ty-eight yea old, clerk for the
United Cold Storage Warehouse, cut
to pieces and almost unacceptable,
and John Gordon, colored, thirty
years old.
Five other dead bodies have been
found, but they r SO badly dis
figured thai they cannot be identified
The Armour Packing Company's
warehouse, the Jung Brewing Com
pany's V arehouse, the Pinnacle Drew-
ing ompany's warehouse, the Ken
lucky Consumers" Oil Company's
tanks and warehouse, the Standard
Oil Company's warehouse and the H.
I. Hackney Company's grocery ware
house were completely demolished.
twenty-five other business houses on
The Kentucky side were so badly dam
aged that they will have to be re-
built.
On the Tennessee side, which IN
cludes the larger part. of the town,
the damage was mor extended.
Business houses were badly is
figured and the stocks of goods
ruined, while residences suffered Sc
.verely, win lows and doors beinS
blown out in houses a mile away.
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