Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-09-28
EXPLOSION OF
DYNAMITE CAR
CAUSES TWELVE DEATHS AND
MANY FATAL INJURIES.
MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGED
Several Buildings Were Totally De-
stroyed, Including Packing House
and Brewery-Report of Explosion
Heard for Twenty Miles.

Jelllc0, Tenn. Twelve deaUhS, VIe
iniuring of scores of other persons and
five hundred thousand dollars damage
to property were oansed here when a
carload of dynamite standing on a
track near the Southern railway de-
pot exploded with report that was
heard twenty miles.
Buildings were shattered In the bus
mess sections of the town and nearly
every piece Of glass within a radius
Of one mile of the scene was broken.
The Dead.
George Adkins, aged 30, lineman for
the East Tennessee Telephone Com
pany.
John Cook, aged so, car inspector
Southern railway.
Walter Rogers, aged %, clerk for
the United Cold Storage Warehouse,
cut pieces and almost unrecogniz-
able.
John Gorgon, negro.
James Sharp, negro.
James Lovette, aged IL.
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 o[ner
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..
& 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
T. 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 Jellico, 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
L. A. Holman, cut on both shoul-
ders.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Jones, both bad
ly bruised, their house having fallen
in upon them.
William Rose cut upon the head.
The explosion occurred at s o'clock
a. m. The freight car, one belonging
to the Pennsylvania railroad lines,
contained $50 boxes of 10000 pounds
of high explosives consigned to the
Rand Powder Company at Clearfeld,
Tenn. Two causes are assigned for the
explosion. One is that three men were
shooting at a mark on the car and that
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
men firing at the car with a rifle.
Jellico is situated on the Tennessee
Kentucky line, about 60 miles from
Knoxville, the main business portion
of the town being on the Tennessee
side. Two railroads, the Southern and
the L. & n, enter it. The depot of the
Southern, which was located near the
scene of the explosion, was wholly
wrecked, the third story of the latter
being wholly destroyed. The list of in
jured will number 200, counting those
slightly hurt. Business houses we're
badly disfgured and stocks of goods
ruined, 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 Compa-
ny's warehouse, the Jung Brewing
Company warehouse, Pinnaeke, Brew
ing Company's warehouse. Besides
the two damaged hotels, the Jellico
Furniture Company's building col
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