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Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
by [Speaks, Dewaine A.]
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For more than 150 years, East Tennesseans have experienced disasters of historic proportions. The 1902 Fraterville Mine explosion took the lives of 216 men and boys. A 1904 head-on passenger train wreck in New Market claimed the lives of 64. In 1906, Jellico was practically destroyed by the explosion of a train car loaded with dynamite. Floodwaters near Rockwood in 1929 took the lives of 7 Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster. An explosion in 1960 at Kingsport's Eastman plant killed 16 workers and injured 400. In 2016, a fire in the Great Smoky Mountains claimed the lives of 14 while destroying 2,460 buildings. Knoxville author Dewaine Speaks chronicles these and other historic tragedies in East Tennessee.
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- The History Press Brand
- Aug 5, 2019 Pub Date:
- 9781467141895 ISBN-13:
- 1467141895 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.37 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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