Hellraisers Journal: Coal Miners, Men and Boys, Mangled or Suffocated in Fraterville Mine Explosion at Coal Creek, Tennessee

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MnDs Fraterville TN, Jake to Ellen Goodbye, Offbeat TN—————

Hellraisers Journal – Thursday May 22, 1902
Coal Creek, Tennessee – At Least One Hundred Men and Boys Lost in Mine Explosion

From the Akron Daily Democrat of May 19, 1902:

HdLn MnDs Fraterville TN, Akron Dly Dem p1, May 19, 1902

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SOURCES & IMAGES

MnDs Fraterville TN, Jake Vowell to Ellen, Goodbye, Offbeat TN
https://offbeattenn.com/?p=120#prettyPhoto

Akron Daily Democrat
(Akron, Ohio)
-May 19, 1902
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028140/1902-05-19/ed-1/seq-1/

See also:

May 19, 1902
Fraterville Mine Explosion
-Owned by Coal Creek Coal Company
Coal Creek, Anderson County, Tennessee
No. Killed – 184
(see list of dead, many with same last names, six Vowells lissted)
https://usminedisasters.miningquiz.com/saxsewell/fraterville.htm#deceased

Fraterville Mine Disaster
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/fraterville-mine-disaster/

“Fraterville Mine Disaster -largest in TN history, devastated Fraterville with only 3 adult males residents remaining.”
https://offbeattenn.com/?p=120#prettyPhoto

“A Dying Miner’s Letter To His Beloved Wife
-On May 19th, 1902, 26 miners working at the Fraterville Coal Mine in Tennessee, were trapped underground. They wrote these letters.”
https://flashbak.com/a-dying-miners-letter-to-his-beloved-wife-1902-416871/

“‘Oh God, For One More Breath’: Early 20th century Tennessee Coal Miners’ Last Words”
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Fratersville Mining Disaster – When The Mines Grew Still in Fratersville
-performed by Tony Thomas, lyrics by John Rice Irwin

The Unknown Miner – Fratersville Mine Disaster 1902