Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-22
Over 200 Are More or Less Injured BY
Flying Fragments,
REPORT HEARD FOR TWENTY MILES
Two Hotels and Number Of Retail Stores
Are Ruined.
WAREHOUSES AND RESIDENCES WRECKED
Carload of Giant Powder on l.. q N.
Tracks Expiodcs with AWFUL
Force-Inquest on Victims
Begins

JEDLICO, Tenn, Sept. I.--TwelVe deaths,
the inturing of scores OF other persons and
five hundred Thousand dollars damage TO
property were caused here today when a
carload OF dynamite standing on a track
near the Southern railway depot exploded
with report that was heard for twenty
miles. Buildings were shattered in tn,
business section of the town and nearly
every piece of glass within a radius OF
one mile of the scene was broken.
The dead
GEORGE ATKINS, llneman for the Eas,
Tennessee Telephone company
JOHN COOK, car inspector.
WALTER RODGERS, clerk for Uniteo
Cold Storage warehouse.
JOHN GORDON. colored.
JAMES SHARP. coored.
JAMES LOVETTE, aged IL.
IDA RAYNE, aged 3 years.
JAMES REYNOLDS.
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.
over Two Hundred Injured.
Eigteen persons were seriously injured
among them r. D. Baird, president OF the
National bank of Jellico and mayor OF Jel-
! lco, who was cut on the neck About 20O
| are less seriously injured.
The freight car. belonging to the Penn.
sylvana railroad lines. contained 450 boxes.
orr 10000 pounds of high explosives. con-
signed to the Rand Powder company at
Ciearfeld. Tenn.
Two causes are assigned for the explo-
sion, one is that three persons were
shooting at mark on the car. and that
bullet entered the car, causing the explo-
! sion. 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.
| Jellico is situated on the Tennessee-Ken-
tucky line. about sixty miles from Knox
VILE the main business portion of the town
| being on the Tennessee side. Two lines OF
railroad. the Southern and the Louisville
| & Nashville railroads enter II. The depot
Of the Southern. which was located near
the scene of the explosion was wholly
wrecked Two hotels. the Glepmargan aud
the Carmathian, were badly wrecked, the
third story of the latter being wholly
I destroyed
Many BuiIdinEs Destroyed.
J Mark Atkins, who was asleep in room
on the third floor OF the Carmathan at
i the time, ls one of the most seriously in
jured. Business houses were badly dis
} IBuIeu ana STOCKS OF GOODS ruined, Wnlio
residences suffered severely. windows and
/ doors being blown out in houses one mile
distant
Among the buildings totally destroyed
were the Armour Packing company's ware
house, the Jung Brewing oompany's ware
house, the Pinnacle Brewing company's
warehouse, oil tank and warehouse OF the
Kentucky Consumers oil company, and the
| Standard oil company's warehouse Be
sides the two damaged hotels the Jellico
| Furniture company's building collapsed and
! the stock Of the Smith Drygoods company
was practically ruined. although the build
! ing which II occupied, the Cumberland
| opera house. the finest structure In Jellico,
escaped with little damage. Fully twenty
other firms suffered losses, but they occu-
pied small buildings.
! Inauests Are Begun.
Rescuers began work soon after the ex-
! plosion and medical aid was asked of Knox
Vile, which sent dozen physicians to
administer to the wounded. The holding
of inquests over the bodies of the victims
was begun this afternoon. but was not
| completed.
Mayor r. b. Baird issued circular noti-
flying the public that all persons found
on the streets after o'clock tonight
would be arrested unless they were owners
OF buildings or stocks or goods or agents
| thereof.
Many people are homeless as result
of the disaster and almost every chimney
was destroyed Cooking cannot be done
| in any of the houses.
Some estimates made tonight on the loss
OF life extend the number OF victims to as
| high as forty, but 1t is believed that this
is "A gross exaggeration.
! 1t is the most serious disaster in the
history OF the east Tennessee mining sec
! tion since the terrible explosion In the
| Fratervllle mines in 1902, when 1884 miners
lost their lives, less than twenty miles