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Three Killed by Explosion

Railroad Men Receive Fatal Injuries
by Premature Blast;
Knoxville, May 30.- Four men
were killed and two fatally injured today
in a dynamite explosion which occured
near Warwick, on the Knoxville,
and Jellico branch of Louisville Nashville road. The dead-
JAMES BIRCHELL AND SON JOHN
JOHN HUNLEY
HENRY MCALISTER
All the dead are residents of Campbell
county, Tennessee.   The
injured men are Hal Hunley and George Ridenour.
The latters' eyes were blown out and the bodies of both
lacerated by stones. The accident was due to the
carelessness of men at work In a rock cut.

Source:  Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, May 31, 1904

His Sin Caused Suicide

Elihu Huddleston of near Jellico, Tenn., crazed  through fear of prosecution, hanged himself with a trace chain to a limb of a tree in the woods near his home. He got up about 3 o'clock In the morning to start to the city. When he failed to meet a friend in Jellico search was made by the
neighbors, and his body was found swinging from a tree. He had made a noose of the chain and put it around his neck. Huddleston had married about two years ago. He became too familiar with a relative, it is claimed. This 'affair' crazed Huddleston, who in his ravings would say: "I have destroyed my friends; I have destroyed my folks, and I have destroyed myself".

Source:  Broad Ax, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 3, 1897

HICK TOWN

NEW YORK  One of the most citified buildings in the largest city in the World went countrified today. The occasion was New York's first festival at Rockefeller Center.  More than 2,000 exhibits were shown, including "the gourdian knot," a gourd grown 37 years ago in Jellico, Tenn
by Dr. Thomas Bell, negro physician, and resembling the legendary Gordian knot.

Source:  Clearfield Progress, Clearfield, Penn., October 30, 1937

Three Tragedies

JELLICO,Tenn., March 31. Three tragedies occurred here within 15 hours and a father and son were among the victims. In a drunken quarrel, James Raines was shot and mortally wounded by David Holland. Both were miners. While the father lay at home, his family expecting every moment to be his last, his son, Zeb Raines, and Frank Susey engaged in a row. Raines attacked Susey with a lump of coal, whereupon Susey drew a pistol and shot Raines three-times in
the breast Raines fell to the ground a corpse. A man named Vickers was shot and is not expected to live.

Source:  Ohio Democrat, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 2, 1896

Search Halted
Near Formosa
TAIPEI. Formosa (AP)  A three day air and sea search was called off Sunday night with no
trace found of a Chinese Nationalist flying boat lost in Formosa Strait with seven Chinese and four
Americans aboard. U.S. 7th Fleet and Chinese Air Force ships and planes had combed the area 40 miles east of the offshore island of Matsu where the Formosa-bound Catalina vanished last Thursday. The four Americans were connected with the U.S. military advisory team on Matsu.  They were: Maj. Robert C. Bloom of Eau Claire,Wis.; Capt. Wayne F. Pitcher, whose wife
lives at San Lorenzo.Calif.; Radioman 3.C. Dwight H. Turner, whose father lives in Clarence,
Mo.; Pvt. 3.C. Claude L. Baird. whose mother lives in Duff, Tenn.

Source:  Dominion News, Morgantown, WV, October 6, 1958

HUNTSVILLE, Tenn., June 3.— Esquire Wm. Claxton, of Campbell county, was shot from ambush and killed by some unknown party yesterday afternoon at the foot of Braden mountain. Constable Pollmore, who was with Claxton, is reported to have taken to his heels. The affair, it is understood, grew out of a feud between Claxton and the Hughetts, of that neighborhood. Claxton
shot Elsewick Hughett from ambush in the same neighborhood about two months ago. Claxton was indicted and under bond for the murder of Wm. Murphy by lynching, and was under bond for killing Hughett. The Claxtons,it is thought, will acuse Henry Hughett of the killing of Wm. Claxton and more trouble is expected.

Source:  Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana June 3, 1897

Miss Ella Smith of L. M. U. has
as her guest her sister, Miss Nannie
Smith of Lafollette,Tenn.

Source:  Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY; 7/31/1923

Submitted By Angela Meadows