Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-03-29
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
KILLS TWO NEeROEs
six MEN ARE SADLY INJURED

esU H@"y 49,
iants, shaking Surrounding Build
Ines and pems,ishins Cara.
Atlanta, March 2s.-IRlling two In
stantiy, tujurins at least seven others
demolishing one freight car and dam
aging several others. tearing great
hole In a substantial brick wall and
snstehing the glass windows from the
buildings In the vicinity. nine nun
dred pounds Of dynamite exploded at
the Southern railway freight depot
NJ the corner OF Peters street. Wed
nesday morning at $3.50 o'clock.
Those dead are VIII jenkins. ne
gro: I'd White. negro:
Those who were injured are waiter
8. PuIlen, white; VIII Smith. negro;
walter Grady. Smyrna, Ca; Eugene
Wilson. negro; Alfred Smith. negro;
Pink Moore. negro; Monroe Johnson.
negro: David Sharp. negro.
The negroes were all employed as
steve dores, employed at the depot
in loading and unloading freight care.
Messrs. Pullen and Grady were the
clerks at the station. the former SUI
perintending q gang OF negroes.
Pullen was seriously. though not IA
tally hurt. He received several ugly
sasaes on the head. Grady was In
jured on the left shoulder being ut
by a piece Of falling timber. Jared
from It's fastenings by the explosion.
The wrecked ear was New York
Central and 81. Louis, No 1870.
loaded with miscellaneous freight.
billed from eastern points 70 Atlanta.
II arrived Wednesday morning and
was placed on the siding closest the
depot for unloading at Z o'clock.
Among sther things. the car con-
talned eight cases OF percussion
caps, according TO the bills OF lad
ing. shipped from Wilmington. Del. 4.
BY the Dupont Powder company, 10
the Atlanta branch OF this Arm. The
eight cases weighed In the neighbor-
hood of 900 pounds.
Certain II IL that the explosion was
one OF tremendous force. II was
heard for a mile or more and the
shock was visibly noticeable for sew
eral blocks In the immediate vicinity
One OF the unfortunate negroes
VIII Jenkins, was thrown 10 q height
OF rs feet In the air. falling on the
main line Of the Central railroad, %
yards from the scene of the explosion
He was literally splintered by the
force. being nearly decapitatsd. The
body presented a sickening picture n
fit was viewed by the hundreds q
morbidly curious who gathered about,
Where the heavily loaded car ono,
stood. there was, after the explosion
only a mass OF torn and spllnteret
bits OF wood. and the two pairs o.
trucks. Scattered about IN all d.
, rections were fragments OF the goods
that had been shipped In the car.
, The cars between which the Ill
fated 1870" stood were wrecked a
either end. while the car standing Of
the next track was practically demol
ished.
So great was the force OF the ex
plosion that parts Of the heavy bricl
J wall OF the depot were torn away
, aud the heavy thnbers were broker
and bent. The clerks desks In
part OF the building distant from IN
car were turned topsy-turvy. and IN
| men themselves were stunned for tn
I minute by the Jar.
, As In all explosions. q vacuum va
created for the second. which account
for the facts that windows In nearb
bsldings were literally sucked fror
I their frames. while heavy boxes an
I paper files were drawn several inche
p towards the scene 81 the disaster.
= Accounts as - the cause Of the ex
eoslou vary. bat II Is generally be
iieyed that the supposed boxes contain
90 dynamite in dangerous form an
4 not percussion caps. as the Bill q
Q iading shows. The succession q
: iars- Caused by he negroes in the
11ffax, ~ break the Eeals AID force a
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