DYNAMITE DISASTER.
A TOWN WRECKED. CARELESS MARKSMEN, PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT Received 4 49 p.m,, Sept. 22. New York, Sept. 22. An explosion of a waggon load of dynamite on a railway siding wrecked the town of Jcllieo, Tennessee. As the result of the oxplosion nine persons woro killed and fifty injured, while live hundred pcoplo were rendered homeless. The daniago is estimated at ono million dollars. Ono account ascribes the occurrence to men shooting at a mark on the side of tho car, which was laden with four hundred eases, some containing explosives.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1868, 24 September 1906, Page 3
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