Before setting off the charge residents in the immediate neighborhood were warned. Not over 50 yards away, just across the highway, resides Sherlon Malone and possibly 75 yards down the road--in the opposite direction from the stump--resides Earl Malone and family. At an angle something like 100-odd yards the Duncan family home stands. The school building was the farthest from the stump in that immediate neighborhood. No warning was given the students of the intended blast.

Workmen sought shelter, many of them not more than 50 yards away--near the Sherlon Malone home--and others farther down the road. When the blast came a part of the thick stump, evidently following a course of least resistance, flew into the air in the direction of the school. A huge log lay on top of a part of the stump and it was reinforced on one side of the stump by the bank of the creek. The side of the stump toward the school was exposed and it was this part that broke clear of the main stump and crashed through the side of the angle tin roof of the school a little farther than a city block away. Fragments of the stump and dirt from the creek bank showered about in the immediate vicinity of the blast but no damage was done and no one was injured. At the time of the accident there were 23 children in the building.
They were:

Pearl Crawford, 13 Injured.
David Dean, 14.
Edna Simpson, 13.
Julius Tipton, 14.
Marie Howell, 9.
Junior Ridgeway, 12.
Avanell Sisler, 10.
Orvil Simpson, 11.
Wm. Stephenson, 12.
Marcella Tipton, 12.
Lafe Webb, 11.
Captola Nance, 14.
Clyde Avery, 12 Injured slightly.
James Dean, 11 Injured seriously.
Rodney Elam, 11 Injured slightly.
Emma Pancake, 13 Injured slightly.
Charles Morrison, 12.
Lois Ridgeway, 10 Injured seriously.
Mary Stephenson, 10.
Clara Tipton, 9 Injured slightly.
Ogden Elam, 9.
Lena Dean, 18.
Wilma Nance, 17.

Altho the teacher, Mr. Nance, was cut about the head and leg by the stump he was not aware of his injury until he had made his second trip to the local hospital bringing the injured children. His injury is not serious. Mr. Nance, accompanied by Arnold Loukx, inspector on the state highway job, and Sherl Malone brought James Dean and Rodney Elam on the first trip and on their second trip they brought Pearl Crawford and Emma Pancake to the hospital. Little Lois Ridgeway was brought to the
hospital by her father, Houston Ridgeway and Clyde Avery was brought to the hospital by his brother Albert. The little Lipton girl was brought in by Frank Sites.

Not more than 90 feet from the school where the accident occurred in the opposite direction from the scene of the blast in another school, a larger school. It houses children in the first three grades. No damage was done here.

Superintendent William C. Paul and Assistant Superintendent Arthur C. Sisler--the latter lives only a short distance from the school--were on the scene shortly after the accident occurred.

Superintendent Paul announced that arrangements would be made tomorrow looking toward taking care of the children who now have no school to attend. It will take several days to place the building in condition for use and during that time Mr. Paul said it was likely that the children would be transported to the Hecla school approximately a mile and a half from the Kelly school. Shortly after the accident and throughout the afternoon many persons visited the school to see where and how the accident occurred.