Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-28
DYNAMITE WRECKS TOWN.
ELEVEN KILLED AND MANY IN
JURED AT JELLIC0, VA, IN A
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
FIVE KILLED IN MANITOBA.
Six Others Hurt as Result of Mix-up
Blasts on Grand Trunk Pa
ciic Railway.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept y. - A
special from Jellico, Tenn, says: A 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 $1,0OO,0O0. Jellico being prac-
tically destroyed. At least 500 persons
are homeless.
General Manager Evans of the Louis
vile & Nashville railway has been ad.
vised that the explosion at Jellico was
probably caused by three men shooting
at mark on the car. The car contained
400 cases of high explosives.
Dead and Injured.
The known dead are:
ATKINS, GEORGE, aged 40, lineman for
the East Tennessee Telephone company.
COOK, JOHN, aged so, car inspector for
the Southern railway.
RODGERS, WALTER, clerk for United
Cold Storage warehouse.
GORDON. JOHN. negro aged 30
SHARP, JAMES, negro.
LOVELLE, WILLIAM, aged II years.
RAYNE, IDA, aged 3 years.
REYNOLDS, JAMES.
WELLERS, JOSEPH, engineer Of Louis.
ONE GNIDENTfFf H5 -A O'ON'
The most seriously injured are
T.. v. Campbell, engineer, Louisville &
Nashville railway.
Finley Gibson.
Judge Foreman, proprietor of the Car,
nathan Inn.
Mrs. Foreman.
William Baird, employe of the Louisville
& Nashville railway.
James Carson of Corbin, KY, cut on
head and bruised.
Son of T. D. Abbott probably fatally.
Isaac Range, cut on head, one eye blown
Mark Atkin, grocer
Jay Baird, bookkeeper for the Italian
Charles Q. Baird cashier of the National
Bank of Jellico.
R.. D.; Baird, president of the National
Bank of Jellico and mayor Of Jellico.
George Hudson, injuries may prove fatal.
Sherman Wilson, head and breast badly
cut.
L. A. Holman.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Jones, badly bruised,
their house having fallen on them.
William Rose, 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. & N. railway, about 100 yards from!
the scene of the explosion, was shat
tered to splinters. 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.
Nue Sa1,ao+L To,eo
AS result it is estimated that one
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.. & n.
1t is believed the explosion was caused
from the spontaneous combustion in the
car.
The spot where the car stood is
marked by a crevass in the earth fully
20 feet deep and about 30 feet in 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 JelllcO by noon. On
the same train were a number of ply
clans and a 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-o 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 C.. H. Hilton had an arm
blown off.
At the time of the accident gang Of
Finlanders were engaged in tunneling,
when the premature explosion of large
quantity of dynamite occurred. The in
jured were taken to a 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.
ASSOCIATED PRESS ELECTS.