- The
Fraterville Mine
disaster was a coal mine
explosion that
occurred on May 19, 1902 near the
community of
Fraterville in the U.S.
state of Tennessee...
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Fraterville,
Tennessee is an
unincorporated community located on
State Route 116 in
Anderson County, Tennessee,
between the
towns of
Rocky Top and Briceville...
- the region's coal
mining activities: the Coal Cr**** War in 1891, the
Fraterville Mine
disaster of 1902, and the
Cross Mountain Mine
disaster of 1911....
- Tennessee's
convict labor program. The
Fraterville Mine
disaster of 1902
occurred nearby, in the
village of
Fraterville. The town
adopted the name "Lake City"...
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slicing a
narrow valley in
which the
communities of
Briceville and
Fraterville are located. The town of
Rocky Top,
formerly Lake City and
before that...
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company was
operating three mines in the valley— the
Fraterville and
Hollow Entry mines at
Fraterville, and a mine at
Thistle Switch (near Briceville)— and...
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Herald as the world's third-worst mine
disaster at the time,
after the
Fraterville Mine
disaster and the Courrières mine disaster. The mine
started operations...
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slopes of
Cross Mountain into Coal Cr****. The
communities of Briceville,
Fraterville, and
Rocky Top (formerly Lake City and
originally Coal Cr****) are located...
- 10 persons: May 19, 1902: 216
miners were
killed in the
Fraterville Mine
disaster in
Fraterville,
Tennessee January 25, 1904: 179
miners and two aid workers...
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convicts back to Briceville. At
Thistle Switch, a
railroad stop near
Fraterville,
several hundred angry miners confronted the
governor and
demanded he...
