Historic Disasters of East Tennessee

Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 171
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ISBN-10 : 9781439667620
ISBN-13 : 1439667624
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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 2019-08-05 with total page 171 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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