Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-28
DYNAMITE WRECKS TOWN
JURED AT JELLICO, VA, IN A
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
FIVE KILLED IN MANITOBA.
Six Others Hurt as Result of Mix-up )
Blasts on Grand Trunk Pa
cihc Railway.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn. Sept. u. \
special from Jellico. Tenn, says: y ter
rife dynamite explosion here today
caused the loss of at least eleven lives
aud the injury of not less than fifty
persons. Damage to property is es-
timated at $1,000 Jellico being praC-
tically destroyed. At least 800 persons
are homeless
General Manager Evans of the Louis
VILE \ Nashville railway has been add
vised that the explosion at Jelico was
probably caused 10y three men shooting
at Il mark on the car. The car contained
400 cases of high explosives.
Dead and Injured.
The known dead are:
ATKINS. GEORGE. aged 80. lincman for
the East Tennessee Telephone company.
COOK, JOHN. aged 90, car inspector for
the Southern railway.
RODGERS. WALTER clerk for United
Cold Storage Warehouse
GORDON. JOHN. 4 negro. aged 80.
SHARP, JAMES. negro.
lONELLE. WILLIAM. aged l. years
RAYNE, IDA. aged . years.
REYNOLDS. JAMES.
WELLERS, JOSEPH, engineer of Louis.
vile \ Nashville railway.
E ES2 1,-IIDI-;x; S%4 i Of J. NJ. Cook.
The most seriously injured arc:
T. Y. Campbeli, engineer, Louisville "
Nashville railway.
Finley Gibson.
Judge Foreman, proprietor of the Car
nathan Inn.
William Baird, employee of the Louisville
& Nashville railway.
James Carson of Corbn. Ky. cut on
head and bruised.
Son of T. ID. Abbott; probably fatally
Isaac Range, cut on head one eye blown
out
Mark Atkin, grocer
Coal company.
charles Q. Baird, cashier of the National
Bank of Jellico
X. D. Baird, president of the National
Bank of Jellico and mayor of JellcO.
George Hudson, injuries may prove fatal.
sherman Wilson, head and breast badly
L. A Holman.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Jones. badly bruised,
their house having fallen on them.
NllLl2m Rose, cut on head.
In addition to these who are seriously
injured, at least 90 others were slightly
wounded.
Every Place Damaged
Without exception every business
house in the town was either totally
wrecked or badly damaged. The union
depot of the Southern railway and the
l.. Il \. railway, about 100 yards from
the scene of the explosion, was shat
tered to sphnterS. This cut off all tele
graphic communication and news of the
explosion was handled by telephone.
The explosion occurred upon the Ken
lucky side of Jellico, and in consequence
every house on that side of the town
was wrecked. Not one was spared. A
large number of residences located near
the railway on the Kentucky side were
without exception demolished.
One-Seventh Homeless; Cause
AS a result it is estimated that one
seventh of the population of the two
Jellicos is homeless. A car loaded with
dynamite, and consigned to the Rand
Powder company, arrived here this
morning at $50 O'Clock. 1t was brought
in by the Southern railway from the
direction of Knoxville, and was side
tracked in the yards used Jointly by
the Southern railway and the l.. & \.
1t is believed the explosion was caused
from the spontaneous combustion in the
car.
The spot where the ear stood is
marked by crevass i'll the earth fully
20 feet deep and about 80 feet i'll diam
eter.
Physicians Sent to Scene
Officials of the Southern railway and
the Louisville & Nashville railway left
Knoxville at $50 o'clock this morning,
expecting to reach Jellico by noon. On
the same train were a number of ply
clans and Il representative of the Asso
ciated Press.
Five Killed; Six Injured.
WINNIPEG. Man, Sept. 21.-Word
was received in this city last night of
a dynamite explosion which occurred
on the right-Of-way of the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway near Finmark, New On
tario. Wednesday afternoon, in which
five were killed outright and six others
injured, one of whom is expected to die.
Foreman G. II. Hilton had an arm
blown off.
At the time of the accident a gang of
Finlanders were engaged III tunncling,
when the premature explosion of Il large
quantity of dynamite occurred. The in
jured were taken to Il private hospital
at Kaministiquia.
Another story says that the unfor-
tunate men ran to cover from their own
blast into charge which had been laid
by another gang and the explosion oc-
Cured before they could be warned Of
their danger.
hSSOCJATEO pPFSS FIFCTS