[DOWNLOAD] "Historic Disasters of East Tennessee" by Dewaine A. Speaks " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
- Author : Dewaine A. Speaks
- Release Date : January 05, 2019
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Nonfiction,Social Science,Science & Nature,Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 11724 KB
Description
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.