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Show NINE lilED, WTy .HURT" "- ' in wmanm explosion ' Entire Business Section of Jellico, Tenn., Wrecked; Car of Dynamite Lets Go With Disastrous Effect; Doctors and Nurses Hurry to Scene, WILLIAMSBURG, Ky., Sept. 21. According to the best advices obtainable here, six persons were killed and fifty injured in the explosion at Jellico, Tenn. A special . . train carrying a number of physicians has left for Jellico. It will take more doctors at Coal Creek and Corbin. KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Sept. 21. Nine people are believed to have been killed, probably fifty' injured and almost the entire business section of Jellico. Tenn., wrecked by a terrific explosion of dynamite dyna-mite early today In a car In the yards of the Louisville & Nashville railroad. The explosion occurred about 100 yards north of the depot and near the center of the business section of the town. The bodies of the dead are buried-Tn the debris and at this hour (8:30 a. m.) ! it'ls impossible to estimate the extent of the fatalities or to give names of those who have los'. their lives. One of the known dead is Thomas Atkins, At-kins, aged 3), a lineman, employed by the East Tennessee Telephone company. Whole Town Is Wrecked.. Every warehouse in Jellico along the Louisville & Nashville railroad is totally destroyed and nearly every store la the town is blown to pieces, or damaged to such an extent that It is a ruin. The entire third floor of the Carmar-then Carmar-then Inn. a large brick hotel structure, was blown off. It 1 believe that no prominent white people, business or professional men, or their families are Included In the dead. Aid for the Injured. A Bpecial train has been sent over the Louisville Sc. Nashvile railroad from Jellico Jel-lico to Williamsburg. Ky.. for physicians. An ariy morning train over the Southern South-ern railway from Knoxville-also carried physicians to attend the wounded. The Known Dead. George Atkins, aged 30. lineman for the East Tennessee Telephone company. John Cook, aged 50, car inspector for the Southern railway. Walter Rodgers. aged 28. clerk for .' United Cold Storage warehouse. John Gordon, colored, aged 30. Five other dead bodies have been found, but they are so badly mutilated that they are beyond recognition. Wreckage Is Complete. Without exception every business house in the town Is either totally wrecked or badly damaged. The union depot of the Southern railway and the Louisville & Nashville railroad, located about 100 yards from the scene of the explosion, was shattered to splinters. This cut off all telegraphic communication and news of the explosion was handled by telephone. tele-phone. The explosion occurred on the .Kentucky .Ken-tucky side of Jellico and In consequence , every house- on that side of the town ts wrecked.. No one was spared. A large number of residences located near the railroad on the Kentucky side were without with-out exception demolished. As a result it Is est tea ted that one-seventh of the population pop-ulation of the two Jelllcoa Is homeless. Cause of Explosion. A car loaded with dynamite and consigned con-signed to the Rand Powder company arrived ar-rived here this morning at 8:30 o'clock. It was brought in by the Southern railway rail-way from the direction of Knoxville and was sidetracked In the yards used Jointly by the Southern railway and the Louisville Louis-ville & Nashville. It is believed that the explosion waa caused from spontaneous combustion in the car. The spot where the car stood Is marked by a crevice In the earth fully twenty feet deep . and about thirty feet in diameter. Officials of the Southern railway and the Lolusville & Nashville left Knoxville this morning expecting to reach Jellico' by noon. On the same train were a lumber lum-ber of physicians and a representative of the Associated Press. |
