The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-22
TWELVE DEAD AND
SCORES INJURED
Terrible Explosion of Dynamite
Wrecks the Town of Jellico,
Tennessee.
DET0NATI0N WAS HEARD
FOR TWENTY MILES
Cause of Awful Disaster Is Yet
a Mystery; Two Theories
Advanced.

JELLICO, Tenn, Sept. 21.-Twelve
deaths, the lnjuring of scores Of other
persons, and 100000 damage to prop
erty, were caused here today when
carload of dynamite standing on track
near the Southern railroad station ex-
ploded with a report that was heard for
twenty miles. Buildings were shattered
in the business section of the town, and
nearly every piece of glass within a
broken,
The Dead.
GEORGE ATKINS, lineman for the
East Tennessee Telephone company.
JOHN COOK, ear inspector,
WALTER ROGERS, clerk for United
Cold Storage warehouse,
JOHN CARBON, colored.
JAMES SHARP, colored.
JAMES LOVETTE, aged 12.
IDA RAYNE, aged years,
JAMES REYNOLDS.
JOHN HOCH.
JOHN COOK.
JOSEPH SELLERS.
One body remains unidentified, MAX
ing the total twelve. There is a posi-
bility that other bodies may be re-
covered from the ruins.
Many Badly Hurt.
Eighteen persons were seriously in
jured, among them r, ID. Baird, presi-
dent of the National Bank Of Jellico
and Mayor of Jellico, Tenn, who was
cut on the neck.
The freight car, belonging to the
Pennsylvania railroad lines, contained
$50 boxes, or 10000 pounds. of high
explosives, consigned to the Rand Pow
der company at Clear6eld, Tenn. Two
causes are assigned for the explosion.
One is that three men were shooting at
mark on the car and that n bullet
struck the car, causing the explosion.
The other is that while the car was
standing on side-track n carload of
pig iron was switched against il, and
that the impact caused the explosion.
Jellico is situated on the Tennessee
Kentucky line, about fifty miles from
Knoxville, the main business portion
OF the town being on the Tennessee
side Two lines of railroad, the South
ern and the Louisville & Nashville rail.
roads, enter IL. The depot of the South
ern. which was located near the scene
of the explosion, was wholly wrecked.
Two hotels, the Glenmorgan and the
Carmathian, were badly wrecked, the
third story of the latter being wholly
DESTROYED. Mark Atkins, who was
asleep in room on the third floor of the
Carmatbian at the time, is one of the
most seriously injured OF tine entlfe ust
of INJURED, which will number fully 200,
counting all who were slightly hurt,
Business houses were badly disfigured
and stocks of goods ruined, while resi-.
dences suffered severely, windows and
doors being blown out in houses one
| mile distant.
Packing House Destroyed.
Among the buildings totally de-
stroved was the Armour Packing com
pany's warehouse, the Jung Brewing
| company S warehouse, Pinnacle Brewing
| company's warehouse, oil tank and
! warehouse Of the Kentucky Consum-
| ers Oil company, and the Standard Oil
/ compauy's warehouse. Besides the two
| damaged hotels, the Jellico Furniture
company's building collapsed and the
stock OF the Smith Dry Goods company
was practically ruined, although the
| building which it occupied, the Cumber-
| land opera house, the finest structure IN
| Tellico, escaped with little damage.
| FuIly twenty other firms suffered losses,
| but tbev occupied small buildings. Res.
! cners began work soon after the eXplo.
| sion and medical aid was asked OF
| Knoxville. which sent Il dozen phYsi-
clans TO minister to the wounded, The
holding Of inquests over the bodies of
| tine victims was begun this afternoon
but was not completed. Many people
| are homeless as the result of the dis
| aster, and as almost every chimney was
DESTROYED cooking cannot be done IN
many of the houses.