A FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
DYNAMITE WAGGON BLOWN UP. A T.ENNESSE TOWN WRECKED. 9 KILLED, 50 INJURED, 500 HOMELESS. MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE. Received 23rd, 4.45 p.m. New York, September 22. The explosion of a waggon load of dynamite on a railway aiding wrecked the town of JeHico, in Tennesse. As a result of the explosion, nine persons were killed and fifty injured, while five hundred people were rcndeied homeless. The 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 four hundred cases of some explosive.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 24 September 1906, Page 3
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103A FEARFUL EXPLOSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81849, 24 September 1906, Page 3
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