The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-22

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 Jellico. Tenn, Sept. A-Twelve deaths, the injury of scores of other persons and $5OO,OOO damage to proper ty were caused here to-day, when a carload of dynamite standing on a track near the Southern railway depot exploded with a report that was heard for twenty miles. Buildings were shat tered in the business section of the town, and nearly every piece of glass within a radius of one mile of the scene was broken.
 One body remains unidentified, mak- ing the total dead twelve.
 There Is a bare possibility that other bodies may be recovered from the ruins of buildings, but this Is hardly proba- ble.
 The explosion occurred at o'clock this morning The freight car, one be- longing to the Pennsylvania, railroad lines, contained 450 boxes of 10000 pounds of high explosives consigned to the Rand Powder company at Clear field, Tenn.
 Two causes are assigned for the ex- plosion One is that three parties were shooting at mark on the car and that bullet entered the car and caused the explosion. The other Is that while the car was standing on side track carload of pig iron was switched against 1t, and that the impact caused the explosion People here are divided as to the theories, some going so far as to say that they actually saw the men firing at the car with a rife.
 Jellico is situated on the Tennessee, Kentucky line about sixty miles from Knoxville, the main business portion of the town being on the Tennessee side. Two lines of railroad, the Southern and the Louisville and Nashville railroads enter 1t. The depot of the Southern, which was located near the scene of the explosion, was wholly wrecked. Two hotels, the Glenmorgan and the CarTna-
 
 story of the latter being wholly de- stroyed. Mark Atkins, who was asleep in a room on the third floor. of the Carmathlan at the time, is one of the most severely injured of the entire list of injured, which will number fully 200 counting all who were slightly hurt. Business houses were badly disfigured and the stocks of goods ruined, while residences suffered severely, windows and doors being blown out of houses as far from the scene as one mile.
 Among the building the totally de- stroyed were the Armour Packing Co, g warehouse, the Jung Brewing Co., S warehouse Pinnacle Brewing Co.'S warehouse, of tank and warehouse of the Kentucky Consumers oil company and the Standard oil company's ware house. Besides the two damaged ho- tels, the Jellico Furniture Go. was prac- tically ruined. although the building which it occupied, the Cumberland Opera house, the finest structure in Jel- lico, escaped with little damage. Fully twenty other firms suffered losses, but they occupied small buildings.
 Rescuers began work soon after the explosion and medical aid was asked of Knoxville, which sent dozen physi- clans to administer to the wounded. Twelve of the most seriously injured were sent to Knoxville on tonight s train to hospitals In that city. The holding of inquests over the bodies of the victims was begun this afternoon, but was not completed Many people are homeless as the result of the dis- aster, and as almost every chimney was destroyed cooking cannot be done in many of the houses.