TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
A TRAIN WRECKED. NINE PEOPLE, KILLED. FIVE HUNDRED HOMELESS. DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO ONE MILLION DOLLARS. Received September 23, 4.49 p.m. NEW YORK, September 22. The explosion "of a waggon load of dynamite on the railway siding wrecked a train at Jellioo, in the State of Tennessee. As the result of the explosion nine persons were killed and fifty injured, while five hundred peoplo have been rendered homeless. The damage is estimated at one million dollars. One account ascribes the occurrence to some men practising shooting at a mark on the side of a car, which was laden with four hundred oases of some explosive.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19060924.2.19.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
106TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8244, 24 September 1906, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in