The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-09-28
TWELVE ARE DEAD. 200 INJURED

GEORGE AKINS, aged 80, linemar
. for the East Tennessee Telephone
Company.
JOHN COOK, aged so, car inspec
tor for the Southern Railway.
WALTER RODGERS, aged 26, clerk
for the United Cold Storage Ware.
house, cut to pieces and almost I'M
recognizable.
JOHN GORDON, a negro.
JAMES SHARP, a negro.
JAMES LOVETTE, aged ~.
! IDA RAYNE, aged 5 years.
JAMES REYNOLDS.
JOHN HOFFMAN.
! JOHN COOK.
JOSEPH SELLER, on Louisville &
Nashville.
One body remains unidentified, MAX
a grand total of twelve.
May Be Others.
There is bare possibility that 9TH
er bodies may be recovered in the
ruins of buildings, but this is hardly
probable.
The most seriously injured are:
E. V. Campbell, engineer of Louis
viii & Nashville Railroad; shoulder
bruised.
Finley Gibson, badly cut on head
Judge and Mrs. Foreman, proprie-
tors of the Carmathian Inn; both bad
Iy bruised and cut
William Blair, employe of the Louis !
vile & Nashville Railroad; badly cut
on head
James Carson, Corbil, KY, cut on
head and bruised.
T. D. Abbott's 6-year-old son knock
ed senseIess and fatally injured.
Isaac Rang, cut on head and right
eye lost
Mark Atkins, head and arms cut.
Jay Beard, book keeper for Italian
Coal Company, seriously cut on head.
Charles O. Baird, cashier of the
National Bank of Jellico, cut over left ,
eye.
r. j. Baird, President of the Nation :
Il Bank of JeIlfco and Mayor of Jelli-
%, Tenn, slightly cut on neck.
George P. Hudson, cut and severely
bruised on body; may die
Sherman Wilson, head and breast
padly cut.
L. A. Holman, cut on both should
RS.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Jones, both bad
Y bruised, their house having fallen in !.
pom them.
William Rose, cut on head
Theories of Cause.
The explosion occurred at s o'clock
his morning. The freight car, one
elonging to the Pennsylvania Rail- :,
bad lines, contained $50 boxes of 20 :,
DO pounds of high explosives consign- :
to the Rand Powder Company, at J,
learfield, Tenn. Two causes are as !,
gned for the explosion. One is that !,
Tree men were shooting at mark on :.
lie car, and that a bullet entered the .
IT and caused the explosion. The q.
her that while the car was standing :
/ side track a car load of pig iron =
as switched against it, and that the
1pact caused the explosion People
IRE are divided as to the theory,
me going so far as to say that they of
tually saw men firing at the car ne
It'll rife. B;
Jellico is situated on the Tennessee ..
line about sixty miles from n
aoxyille, the main business portion d
the town being on the Tennessee
Ie. Two railroads, the Southern and
'uisville & Nashville, enter it. The
pot of the Southern, which was To-
ted near the scene of the explosion,
IS wholly wrecked. Two hotels, the
enmorgan and the Carmarthen, were
dly wrecked, the third story Of the
ter being wholly destroyed The
Of injured will number 200, count
: those slightly hurt. Business -
uses were badly disfigured, and "a
'cks Of goods ruined, while resi- /,
noes suffered severely, windows and
DTS being blown out In houses as :
from the scene as one mile. ~
Buildings Destroyed. W
Among the buildings totally des- M
yed were the Armour Packing Com N
ly's warehouse, the Jung Brewing W
npany's warehouse, Pinnacle Brew *
Company's warehouse, oil tank and n
rehouse of Kentucky Consumers w
Company and the Standard Oil *
npany's warehouse. XXX
'esides the two damaged hotels, the II
leo Furniture Company's building W
apsed and the stock of the Smith W
Goods Company was practically M
led, although the building which it Y