The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-09-27
DYNAMITE WRECKS TOWN,
ELEVEN KILLED AND MANY IN
JURED AT JELLICO, VA, III A
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
FIVE KILLED IN MANITOBA.
Six Others Hurt as Result OF Mix-up i,
Blasts on Grand Trunk Pa
cihc Railway.

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Sept, IL \
special from Jelico, Tenn. says: y ter
rife dynamite explosion here today
caused the loss of at least eleven lives
and the injury of not less than fifty
persons. Damage to property is es-
timated at $1,00O,0OO. Jellico being prac-
ticaly destroyed AZ least 800 persons
are homeless.
General Manager Evans of the Louis
vile d Nashville railway has been ad-
vised that the explosion at Jelco was
probably caused by 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 40. iineman Tor
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, negro aged so,
SHARP, JAMES, negro.
LONELLE, WILLIAM, aged - years.
RAYNE, IDA, aged 3 years
REYNOLDS, JAMES.
WELLERs, JOSEPH, engineer Of Louis
vile \ Nashville railway :, o,
ONE UNIDENTIFIED.
ne HloSL StllOuS!N luJuICu are.
II. V. Campbell, engineer. Louisy,ne 10
Nashville railway.
Finley Gibson.
Judge Foreman, proprietor Of the Car
nathan Inn.
Mrs. Foreman.
William Baird, cmployc OF the Louisville
Nashville railway.
James Carson OF Corbin. Ky. cut Oh
head and bruised.
Son of T. D. Abbott; probably fatally.
Isaac Range, cut on head, one eye blown
out.
Mark Atkin, grocer
Jay Baird. bookkecpcr for the Italian
Coal company.
Charles O, Raird, cashier Of the National
Bank Of JelIco.
r. u, Baird, president of the National
Bank of Jellco and mayor OF Jellico.
George Hudson, injuries may prove fatal
sherman Wilson, head and breast badly
/. A Holman.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Jones, badly bruised,
their house having fallen on them
William hose, cut on head.
In addition to these who are seriously
injured, at least so 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.. x \ railway, about 100 yards from
the scene of the explosion, was shat
tered to spinters. This cut of all tclc-
graphic communication and news Of tn,
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. \
large number of residences located near
the railway on the Kentucky side were
without exception demolished.
One-Seventh Homeless; Cause.
As Il 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 ut $3.50 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 ;he l.. ~ \.
1t is believed the explosion was caused
from the spontaneous combustion in the
ear.
The spot where the car stood is
marked by crevGss in the earth fully
20 feet deep and about so feet in diam
eter.
Physicians Sent to Scene.
Officials of the Southern railway anG
the Louisville q Nashville rciin ny left
knoxville at $50 o'clock this morning
expecting to reach Jellico by noon. On
the same train were n number of ply
clans and a representative Of the Asso.
cated Press.
Five Killed; Six Injured.
WINNIPEG. Man., Sept. 21.-WorI
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 Nix others
injured, one of whom is expected to die.
Foreman c. II. Hilton had an aru!
blown off.
At the time of the accident gang Of
Finanders were engaged in tannclinr,
when the premature explosion Of a large
quantity of dynamite occurred. The in
jured were taken to a private hospital
ut kaministiquia.
Another story says that the unfor.
tunate men ran to cover from their OWEN
blast into n charge which had been laid
by another gang and the explosion Nc-
CURED before they could be warned Of
their danger.