Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-22
Twelve Killed and at Least
Two Hundred Injured by
Terrific Explosion in JeIIico,
Tennessee,
PROPERTY DAMAGE WILL
REACH HALF MILLION
Business Section of Place Re-
duCed to WreCkage by AW-
full Force of 10000 Pounds
of Giant Powder.

Jellico, Tenn, Sept. 21.-Twelve
deaths, the injuring OF scores of 9TH
er persons, and 100000 damage to
property were caused here today
when a carload of dynamite standing
on track near the Southern railway
station exploded with report that
was heard twenty miles. Buildings
were shattered in the business section
of the town and nearly every pane of
glass Within a radius of one mile OF
the scene was broken. The dead:
GEORGE ATKINS, lineman for the
East Tennessee Telephone company.
JOHN COOK, car inspector
WATER ROGERS, clerk for United
| Cold Storage company.
| JOHN GORDON, cOlored
JAMES SHARP. colored.
JAMES LOVETTE, aged IL.
IDA RAYNE, aged 3 years.
JOHN HOFFMAN.
JOHN COOK.
JOSEPH SELLERS.
| One body remains unidentified,
making the total twelve.
There Is a possibility that other
bodies may be recovered from the
ruins.
| Eighteen persons were seriously in
/ jured among them being r. ID. Bayrd,
president of the National Bank of
Jellco, and mayor of Jellico, who was
! cut on the neck.
The freight car belonging to the
Pennsylvania railroad lines contained
450 boxes, or 10000 pounds, of high
| explosives consigned to the Rand
Powder company at Clearfield Tenn.
! Two causes are assigned for the eX-
plosion. one is that three men were
shooting at a mark on the car and
that bullet entered the car. causing
the explosion.
The other is that while the car was
standing on a side track a carload OF
pig iron was switched against it and
that the impact caused the explosion
Many Buildings Destroyed.
Jellico is situated on the Tennessee
/ Kentucky line about sixty miles from
I Knoxville the main business portion
of the town being on the Tennessee
line. Two lines of railroad the
Southern and the Louisville & Nash
VILE enter it. The depot of the South
ern, which was located near the scene
of the explosion was wholly wrecked
Two hotels, the Glen Morgan, and the
Carmathian, were badly wrecked
the third story of the latter being
wholly destroyed. Mark Atkins, who
floor of the Carmathian at the time
is one of the most seriously injured OF
the entire list of injured, which will
number fully 200, counting all who
were slightly hurt. Business houses
were badly disfgured and stocks oi
goods ruined while residences suf.
fered severely, windows and doors be-
ing blown out in houses one mile dis
tant.
Among the buildings totally de.
stroyed was the Armour Packinl
companys $ warehouse, the Jung Brew
ing company's warehouse. the Pima
Gle Brewing company's warehouse. thu
oil tank and warehouse of the Ken
lucky Consumers Oil company, ant
the Standard Oil company's ware
house Beside the two damaged ho
tells the Jelico Furniture company''
building collapsed and the stock Of
Smith Dry Goods company was prac
tlcally ruined, although the building
which it occupied, the Cumberland
Opera house, the finest structure II
Jellico, collapsed with little damage
Fully twenty firms suffered losses, bu
they occupied small buildings.
lRescuers began work after the ex
ploson and medical aid was asked o
Knoxville, which sent dozen physl
clans to minister to the injured. Th'
holding of inquests over the bodies o
the Victims was begun this afternoon
but was not completed.
Many people are homeless as th'
result of the disaster, and as almos
every chimney was destroyed. cooking
cannot be done in many of the houses