DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
An American Town Wrecked.
500 Homeless,
Frass Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. NEW YORK, September 22. The explosion of a waggon load of dynamite on a railway siding wrecked the town of Jellico, Tennessee. As a result of the explosion nine persons were killed and fifty injured, while five hundred people were rendered homeless. Th damage is estimated at a million dollars. One account ascribes the occurrence to men practising shooting at a mark on the side of a car which was laden with foiir hundred cases of some explosive.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11979, 24 September 1906, Page 5
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90DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11979, 24 September 1906, Page 5
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