Historic Disasters of East Tennessee

Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781467141895
ISBN-13 : 1467141895
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Book Synopsis Historic Disasters of East Tennessee by : Dewaine A. Speaks

Download or read book Historic Disasters of East Tennessee written by Dewaine A. Speaks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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