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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:
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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/
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