The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-09-26
\ Dozen People Killed and
Scores Hurt Friday by
A CHEAT EXPLOSION
OF a Car of Dynamite at JeIlico, Tenn.
The Railroad Station Demolished
and Many Other Buildings Are.
Wrecked. Causing Heavy
Loss.

pie we're hurt and property destroyed
20 the amount OF half a million dol
lars by the explosion Of q carload OF
dynamite, which was standing on 3
track near the S3uthsrn depot In that
city. The explosion made a report
that was heard twenty miles aWay,
shattered buildings In the business
secticn OF the town. Every piece OF
glass within radiance Of one mile Of
the ex closion was shattered.
The freight car, one OF the Pennsyl.
vania's lines, C c>ntained $50 boxes OF
20. 900 pounds Of high explosives
consigned to the Bind Powder Gem
pany, at Clearheld, Tenn. Two causes
ere assigned for the explosion, One
is that thrse parties were shooting st
q mark on the car and that bullet
entered the car and caused the ex-
piosion. The other Is that while the
car was standing On a side track q
carload of pig iron was switched
against it and that the force of the
1ar caused the explosion.
The depot Of tine Southern, which
vas located near the scene OF the Ak
ploston, was wholly wrecked. Two
hotels, the Glenmorgan and the Oar.
nouhern were badly wrecked, the
5hird story of the latter being wholly
destroyed. Oae person, Marx Atkins,
vho was asleep IN 8 room on this foor
at the time, Is cneOf tho most seri.
ously II j.ired OF the entire list, which
vii NUMBER fully two hundred, count
.ng all who were but slightly hurt.
Business houses were badly disfgpred,
steezs Of goods ruined, while .esiden-
ces suffsred ssysrely, windo VS. and
doors blown out Of the houses as Tar
from the scene as one mile.
Among the buildings Totally des-
troyed were the Armour Packing Com.
pany's warehouse, the Jung Brewing
Company's warehouse, Pinnacle Brew
Ing Company's warehouse, oil tank
and warehouse OF Kentucky Consum-
ers' Oh Company aad the Standard
Oh C.m 2any's warehouse. Besides
the two damaged hotels, the Jeltco
Furniture Company's building collap-
sed and the stock OF the Smith Diy
Goods Company was practically ruia.
ID, although the building which 1t oc.
cup!ed, the Cumberland 0 3era House,
the fless structure IN Jelico, escaped
with little damage. Fully twenty
other firms suffered losses, but they
occupied small buildings.
Rescuers began work soon after the
explosion and medical aid was asked
OF Ka.1yille, which sent . dozen ply
stcians to administer to the wounded.
TSelye Of the most seriously injured
were sent to Knoxville to the hospit-
ais In that city. The holding OF In
quests oyer the bodies Of the victims
was begun this afternoon, but was not
completed. It is the most serious dis
aster In the history Of the East Tenn
essee mining section since the terrible
explosion In the FraterVille mines In
1902, when 184 miners, men and boys,
lost their lives in a ceal mine, mar
Coal Greek, less than twenty miles
from the scene Of Fridays explosion.
Mayor &. B. Baird issued circular,
notifying the public that all persona
found on the streets after 8 O'Clock
Friday night would be arrested, unless
they were owners Of building or stocks
ot goods OF agents therefor. Many
people are homeless as . result OF the
disaster. and as almost every chimney
vas Destroyed, cooking cannot be done
in any OF the houses. Some estimates
made Friday night On the loss OF Life
place the number OF victims 1t as high
figure as forty, butit is believed
that this gross exsgssration, and
that not more than fifteen have lost
their lives, II that many.