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Historic Disasters of East Tennessee
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword, by Stephen G. Wiley and Michael Samples
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Interstate Deaths in Heavy Fog
- 2. “Oh God, for One More Breath”
- 3. The Great New Market Train Wreck
- 4. Pruden’s Devastating Tornado of 1933
- 5. Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Local Bermuda Triangle
- 6. Boy Scouts Disaster at White’s Creek
- 7. World War II Troop Train Wreck
- 8. “The Day the Earth Shook”
- 9. Coaches Die as Fast Passenger Train Strikes Their Car
- 10. An Illegal Fireworks Factory Explodes
- 11. Holston Mountain Airplane Crashes
- 12. Tennessee Eastman Explosion: The Day Kingsport Wept
- 13. East Tennessee’s Freshet of 1867
- 14. Cross Mountain Mine Explosion
- 15. One of the Nation’s Worst Man-Made Disasters
- 16. “Will Our Great Smoky Mountains One Day Go Up in Flames?”
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- About the Author