Description: Historic Disasters of East Tennessee, Tennessee, Disaster, Paperback 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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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781467141895
Book Title: Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.4in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Not Available
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Regional, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Photoessays & Documentaries
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Photography, Nature, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
