The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-22
DAMAGE 100000
Residences One Mile From
Scene Are Damaged.
eXPL osloN MAKES cREvAssE IN
EARTH FULLY TWENTY FEET
DEEP AND THIRTY FEET WIDE
WHERE CAR OF DYNAMITE
STOOD.

Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 21.-A spe.
tal 10 the Sentinel from Jellico, Tenn.
sys that a terrific dynamite explos
Ou occurred here this morning at
o'clock, causing the loss of at least
rlne lives and more or less seriously
hjuring fifty people. Property dam
sge is estimated at $1,000, 900 and the
town of Jellico, KY. was practically
destroyed. At least 500 people are
homeless. The known dead are:
The Dead.
GEORGE ATKINS. aged 80, a line
nan for the East Tennessee Telephone
Company.
JOHN COOK. aged so, car inspector
for the Southern Railway.
WALTER RODGERS, aged %, CLERK
for The United Cold Storage Ware
house Company; cut to pieces and al
most unacceptable.
JOHN GORDON, colored, aged 80.
Five other dead bodies have been
found, but they are SO badly disfig
Ted that they are beyond recogni.
ton.
1t Is feared that he removal Of the
debris will reveal still other dead and
| the total fatalities may be very large
ly increased.
The Injured.
The most seriously injured are:
F. v. Campbell, engineer of the
L. & N Railroad; shoulder BRUSHED.
Finley GIBSON badly hurt.
Judge and Mrs Foreman, proprie,
tor of the Carmathan Inn; badly
bruised and cut
William Baird employee Of the l.. &
" Railroad badly cut on head.
James Carson. of Corbin, KY. cut
N head and bruised about arms and
body.
I. D. Abbott's six-year-old son;
shocked senseless and fatally injur.
ed.
Isaac Range, cut on head and right
| eye lost.
Mark Atkin, grocery merchant; cut
on head and arms.
JAR Bird, hookkeeper for the Ital-
an Coal Company; seriously cut Oh.
head.
Charles o. Baird, cashier of the Ma
tonal Bank of JeEco; cut over left
eye.
K. D. Baird, president of the Nation.
a. Bank of Jellico and mayor of Jelli-
co, Tenn; seriously cut on neck.
George Hudson, cut and severely
fatal
Sherman Wilson, head and body
cut
ders.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. M. Jones. both badly
bruised their house crumbling and
sillng in upon them.
William Ross; head cut.
IN addition to these who are seri-
ously injured at least fifty others sus-
Aihed wounds Of a slight nature.
MAJ Not House Escaped.
without exception, every business
mousse in the town is enther totally
wrecked or badly damaged. The union
gepot OF the Southern Railway and
,Ie Louisville and Nashville, located
soont 100 yards from the scene Oh
we explosion, was shattered to spin.
erS This cut off all telegraphic CON-
,munication. But for the fact that the
uhg distance telephone exchange is
considerably removed from the scene
Vi The disaster the town would have
, ueen Isolated from the outside world.
me explosion occurred upon the Ken.
lucky side of Jellico and in conse-
euehce every house on that side of
'oWn Is wrecked. Not one Is spared.
large number Of residences were To-
.ated near the railroad on the Ken,
..ucky side, and these without excep-
uon are demolished. A conservative
esumate Is tibet one-seventh of the
population of the two Jellicos Is
homeless
residences one mile from the scene
were damaged. glass being shattered
~ windows, and in some instances
. .sys were knocked down. Latest
s, 81 as to the origin Of the explos-
.on are that a car loaded with dyna.
a. ''e and consigned to the Rand Pow
tar r company. arrived here this morn
;as az $3.50 o'clock. It was brought
a., oy the Southern Railway from the
si Hecuon of Knoxville, where It was
nv .tfacked in the yards used jointly
ior,tne Southern Railroad and the
,nnnS svilie and Nashville. II Is pre-.
%. e 20 The explosives were intended
pn,sne local merchants. The Rand
isc,Usr Company has large manu-.
Vile ing plant midway between Knox
lev ana Jelico. 1t is generally be-
bv sU mat the explosion was caused
Bo. pontaneous combustion In the car.
opes V ,, noNing has yet devel-
10 M snat will give a possible clue as