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.Georgia Also Has Similar
Measure Pending at
Washington
BY BA I, PH SMITH
WASHINGTON. lx C.. Feb I.'..—The
members of the Florida, house delegation
• met toda> with reference to the passage
of a bill which has just passed the sen
ate providing for the appointment of an
additional federal judge tor the southern
district of Florida.
. It was decided to have a committee of
five member.- from the bar association
of Florida visit Washington and lay I
the matter before the house judiciary .
committee at an early date.
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gia in view of the fact that Senator
Hoke Smith announced that the first op
portunity he would push a bill of the
same.kind which had passed by the sen- |
ate last year.
If the "Florida bill passes the house ;
it will probably mean that the Geor
gia bill will also pass, although there
i* no positive assurance that either will
get through at this time
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Explosion Wrecks Half Block in Atlanta
TWO BODIES FOUND
INWRECKHGEOF BIG
MARIETTA ST. BUST
R. A. Thomas and Zion Smith
Identified as Victims-Igni
tion of Gasoline Vapor Be
lieved Cause
The bodies of both of the victims of
j the Marietta street explosion which
I jarred a section of Atlanta Tuesday aft
-1 ernoon and demolished half a block of
buildings. were positively identified
Wednesday, hut the cause of*the explo
sion has not yet been definitely estab
lished. although it is believed to have
been caused from the ignition of gaso
line vapor.
At 7:30 o’clock Wednesday morning a
'charred and mutilated body was dragged
front the debris and identified as that
of Roland A. Thomas, proprietor of the
Thonias Vulcanizing company shop, 598
Marietta street, where the explosion oc
curred. and later in the morning the
body which was taken front the ruins
Tuesday night was declared to be Zion
Smith, the seventeen-year-old son of
Mrs. E. S.’Smith. 9 Griffin street.
C. F. Sweat, a painter, of 36 Wheeler
street, identified the body of' young
Smith by the shoes worn by the acci
dent ' icrtm and the riding coat which
Smith had cn at the time. Sweat de
clared that he saw Smith just ten min
utes before the tremendous report.-was
heard, and when he saw the disfigured
body at the chapel of H. M. Patterson
& Son Wednesday he said he was con
vinced it was Smith.
The bpdy of Thomas was identified by
his hrJther. Dr. Elxie B. Thomas, who
was at the scene early Wednesday. Zion
Smith was employed at the Atlanta
Metal Bed company and rode a motor
cycle frequently.
Chief Cod’ and Building Inspector C.
J. Bowen spent a large part of the
morning at the scene of the explosion,
and while many theories were advanced
as to the cause of the catastrophe, ap
parently no light had been thrown on
the mystery.
* Tank of Gasoline Near
City officials, detectives and secret
service men investigating the cause of
the explosion seemed to be of the opin
ion that vapors escaping from the open ;
top of the gasoline tank which stood j
on a flat car at the rear of the vul- I
canizing shop entered the windows of .
the shop, and in this way caused the :
explosion.
It was learned that a gas stove was .
: urning In the shop at the time. If I
the fumes from the open gas tank caus- j
vd the explosion, the investigators de
i la red. it was a miracle that the tank I
itself did not explode.
•'lf that tank had blown up." stated :
an official, “there wouldn’t have been ,
much left of Marietta street, and hun- ;
dreds of people might have been killed.
Carlos 11. Mason, United States ex
’osives inspector for Georgia, was one >
•»f those on the scene Tuesday night and
Wednesday, but refused tn make any
statement concerning his investiga
tions.
Defectives and city officials question
ed many persons in the neighborhood
in an effort to throw light on the mys
tery.
The buildings demolished tby the blast
were from 590 to 612 Marietta street.
They were all occupied by the Southern
■ 'homical Products company except 598
Marietta street, the site of the vulcaniz
'-:g plant
5:45 Tuesday afternoon pedes-
Tians along this part of Mariet
ta street state that a pillar of
smoke and fl.'.me shot up from
the roof of the plant, there was a stun
ning concussion and a lightning flash
of flame leaped forth, seeming to en
velop the entire neighborhood. The air
fairly rained with debris —flying planks,
bricks, sheets of tin. bars of iron, pieces
of glass, falling for blocks around.
Firemen Check Flames
For miles around, people felt the
force of the explosion. Houses were
jarred, window panes broken and people
went rushing into the street, to turn
and watch the flames that were roar
ing up from the wrecked buildings.
Thousands went to the scene on foot
and in automobiles, choking Marietta
street, already made impassable to 1
| street cars and other traffic by the
wreckage strewn around. It was not
I long before firemen had the flames un
der control, preventing their spread to
[neighboring houses.
The injured were taken immediately to
Grady hospital. Here it was stated
Wednesday morning that none of them
was seriously hurt. All but two were
discharged after having their wounds
cared for. The two in the hospital Wed
nesday morning were D. G. Hyatt, of
Simpson road, a clerk for the Reed Oil
company, and Jim Stevens, of 57 Hil
liard street, an employe of Grady hos
pital.
D. G. Hyatt Burned
Hyatt was standing on the railroad
tracks behind the vulcanising plant
when the explosion occurred. His clothes
caught on fire and he ran wildly down
the tracks until people caught him and
held him and beat out the flames. He
is painfully burned about the head and
shoulders.
Stevens was standing on Marietta
street, some distance away, waiting for
a street car. He is burned about the
head and body.
The others who were taken to the
• Grady hoe pi tai, but later sent home.
*rc: W. S. (Wood! Almand, a stock
dealers, of Conyers, burned about the
head and face; R. L*. <Dee> Stowers, of
.Conyers. brother of Paul Stowers,
former pitcher for the Philadelphia Na
tionals. burned about head and thee;
Mrs. Amanda Pennell, who owns a gro
cery store at 592 Marietta street, bruis
ed; Claud Haver, 123 Wheeler street,
employe of American Can company, cut
about hands; Samuel Moton, colored. 56
Wallace street, slightly burned; Dean
Russell, colored, slightly burned.
Al ma.nd and Stowers were pasHing in
an ...itomobnle. on their way to Conyers.
Stow' <hut off his engine as the ex
ploe- occurred and leaping from the
car. aggod Almand with him to a
place of safety a hundred yards away.
The top of the car was burned away.
Samuel Moton was on the roof of the
lOvansnlle Brewery building, doting
some painting. He saw the wave of
flame leaping toward him and jumped
to the ground, hurting his leg
Several others who were hurt, but
not badly enough to be takep to the
hospital, were: M. F. Jonas. 202 Mil
ton avenue, chemist at the .Southern
Chemical Products company, burned
about face and hands; Clements Jones,
202 Milton avenue, chemist’« assistant,
burned; Perry Ginsberg, employe Sou th-
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918.
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SOME OF THE WRECKAGE LEFT BY THE TERRIFIC EXPLOSION WHFCH OCCURRED Tuesday afternoon at the
i Thomas Vulcanizing company’s shop, s<>S Marietta street, is shown in the large pictures, while the inserts are photographs of the
two victims who lost their lives in the explosion. At top, left, Roland A. Thomas, proprietor of the vulcanizing shop, whose
mutilated bodv was taken from the ruins Wednesday morning; bottom, right, Zion Smith, the seventeen-year-old boy, whose
body was found Tuesday night and identified Wednesday. The picture at the top shows the remains of the vulcanizing shop
and’in the background a tank containing 10,000 gallons of gasoline can be seen. Below, group of men digging in the debris for
the bodv of Mr. Thomas, which was discovered about 7 o’clock.—Photos by Winn and Mathewson.
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flying timber and slightly hurt.
G. W. Gorman, president of the South
ern Chemical Products company, had
just left his place of business in his
automobile, with several friends. The
car w’as almost turned over by the
shock, but he and the others had a mar
velous escape from the fire and the
whirling debris. Mr. Gorman said he is
sure the explosion was in the vulcaniz
ing plant.
Mr. Thomas was thirty-nine wars old
and is survived by four sisters, Mrs. .1.
T. Howard. Dallas. Texas; Mrs. H, W.
Fairbanks; Dallas; Mrs. E. W. Pease,
of Ohio, and Mrs. H. D. Bolles. of At
lanta. and one brother. Dr. Elzie B.
Thomas. He was the son of the late
Dr. A. G. Thomas. The funeral will
be held from I’atterson's chapel, an 1
Interment will be in Oakland cemetery.
The time of the funeral has not yet
been determined.
Besides his mother, young Smith is
survived by two sisters, Miss Clcx> Smith
I and Mrs. Vick Hughes. His funeral ar
rangements have not been made.
Explosion Hurls Woman
Against Nearby Box Car
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• disastrous explosion was the experience
suffered by Mrs. Mandy Pennell, who
’ conducted a small grocery store at 592
Marietta street, a few doors from the
, wrecked vulcanizing shop.
; Mrs. Pennell was standing near a
back door in her store at the time of
. the explosion. .So terrific was the jar
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freight to aid the farming and manu
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Coal for the factories, and agricultur
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1 farmers are the chie? commodities
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Funeral Services Held
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WASHINGTON. Ga.. Feb. 12.—Funeral
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IVolney Williams Will
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; L> Volney Williams, member of "the
house of representatives from Ware
county and editor of the Waycross Jour
■ nal-Herald. definitely announced in At
. lanta Tuesday that he will be a candi
'date for the railroad commission in the
1 democratic state primary this fall.
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i but had not cefinitely announced his
candidacy until Tuesday. He is one of
the best known newspaper men in the
state and enjoys a wide popularity
among members of the legislature. He
is chairman of the constitutional amend
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other committee assignments ,of im-
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tor of the Americus Times-Recorder,
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