The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-09-27

pot exploded with a report that was
heard twenty miles.
Buildings were shattered in the bus
iness sections of the town and nearly
every piece Of glass within radius
Of one mile Of the scene was broken.
The Dead.
George Adkins, aged 80, lineman for
the East Tennessee Telephone Com
pany. q q
John Cook, aged so, car inspector
Southern railway. rr
Walter Rogers, aged %, clerk for
the United Cold Storage Warehouse,
cut pieces and almost unpecogniz-
able.
John Gorgon, negro. 49,
James Sharp, negro.
James Lovette, aged II.
Ida Rayne, aged 3.
James Reynolds.
John Hochma.
John Cook.
Joseph Sellers on~L. & N.
One body remains unidentified. To-
tai IL.
There is bare possibility that other
bodies may be recovered in the ruins
of buildings but this is hardly prob
able. The most seriously injured are:
E. V. Campbell, engineer Of the l..
e n, shoulder bruised.
Finley Gibson, badly cut on head.
Judge and Mrs. Foreman, proprie-
tors Of the Carmanthia Inn, both bad
ly cut on head.
James Carson, -Corbin, KY, cut on
head and bruised.
7. D. Abbotts, 6 years old, knocked
senseless and fatally injured.
Isaac Range cut on head and right
eye lost.
Mark Atkins, head and arms. cut.
Jay Baird, bookkeeper for Italian
Coal Company, seriously cut on head.
Charles 0. Baird, cashier Of the
National Bank Of Jellico, cut over left
eye.
r. J. Baird, mayor Of. Jellice, and
president of the bank, cut on neck.
George Hudson, cut and severely
bruised on body, may die.
Sherman Wilson, head and breast
badly cut. Sssis
L. A Holman, cut on both sheul-
ders.
ME-. and Mrs. j. M. Jones', both bad
ly bruised, their house having fallea
IN upon them.
William Rose cut upon Me head.
The explosion occurred at 'clsck
a. m. The freight car, one belonging
to THE Pennsylvania railroad lines,
1 contained $50 boxes Of 10000 pounds
of high explosives consigned to the
Rand Powder Company at Gearfeld,
Tenn. Two causes are assigned for the
! explosion. One is that three men, were
shooting at mark On the car and that
a bullet entered the car and caused
} the explosion. The other is that while
the car was standing on a side track
carload Of pig iron was switched
against It and that the impact caused
the explosion. People here are divided
as to theories, some going SO far as to
say that that they actually saw the
hen firing at the car with rife.
II Jellico is situated on the Tennessee
Kentucky line, about go miles from
Knoxville, the main business portion
Of the town being on the Tennessee
side. Two railroads, the Southern and
she L. & n, enter it. The depot Of the
YSouthern, which was located near the
scene Of the explosion, was wholly
wrecked, the third story Of the latter
being wholly destroyed. The list of M
cured will number 200, counting those
lightly hurt. Business houses were
lady disfgured and stocks of goods
rui1ed, while residences suffered Sc
verely, windows and doors being
blown out in houses as far from the
scene as one mile.
Among the buildings totally DESTROY
ed were the Armour Packing Comma
ny's warehouse, the Jung Brewing.
Company warehouse, Pinnacke, Brew
ing Company's warehouse. Besides
the two damaged hotels, the Jellicol
Furniture Company's building col
Alapsed and the stock of the Smith
Army officers at Washington believe
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