Historic Disasters of East Tennessee

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.

Author: Dewaine A. Speaks
Publisher: History Press
Published: 08/05/2019
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781467141895
ISBN10: 1467141895
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief
- Nature | Natural Disasters