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Author | : Dewaine A. Speaks |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467141895 |
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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.
Author | : Allen R. Coggins |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2012-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1572338296 |
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A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred in the Volunteer State over the past several centuries. Intended for both general readers and emergency management professionals, it covers natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes; technological events such as explosions, transportation wrecks, and structure fires; and societal incidents including labor strikes, political violence, lynchings, and other hate crimes. At the center of the book are descriptive accounts of 150 of the state’s most severe events. These range from smallpox epidemics in the eighteenth century to the epic floods of 1936–37, from the Sultana riverboat disaster of 1865 (the worst inland marine accident in U.S. history) to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Included as well are stories of plane crashes, train wrecks, droughts, economic panics, and race riots. An extensive chronology provides further details on more than 900 incidents, the most complete listing ever compiled for a single state. The book’s introduction examines topics that include our fascination with such tragedies; major causes of death, injury, and destruction; and the daunting problems of producing accurate accountings of a disaster’s effects, whether in numbers of dead and injured or of economic impact. Among the other features are a comprehensive glossary that defines various technical terms and concepts and tables illustrating earthquake, drought, disease, and tornado intensity scales. A work of great historical interest that brings together for the first time an impressive array of information,Tennessee Tragedies will prove exceptionally useful for those who must respond to inevitable future disasters.
Author | : East Tennessee Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Tennessee, East |
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Author | : Brookhaven Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Fred Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 1990-01-01 |
Genre | : Tennessee, East |
ISBN | : 9780961565657 |
Download The Faces of East Tennessee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Tennessee |
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Download History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807834599 |
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Total Pages | : 1312 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Bedford County (Tenn.) |
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Author | : Dewaine A. Speaks |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467144703 |
Download Murder & Mayhem in East Tennessee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
East Tennessee is gorgeous country, but the hills and hollers have a dark side. James Earl Ray, who had already assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., created mayhem at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary when he led six other men in a short-lived escape. Several thousand Cherokee Indians from East Tennessee were forced on what would later be called the "Trail of Tears." In the "Hankins Murder" case and in the triple killings in Oliver Springs, chaos and confusion resulted from the wrongful arrest and public accusations of innocent people. Jake and C.H. Butcher brought about bedlam with their banking scandal that at the time was unsurpassed in scope in the nation's history. Author Dewaine A. Speaks details these stories and more.
Author | : Dewaine A. Speaks |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2020-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439671419 |
Download Murder & Mayhem in East Tennessee Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
East Tennessee is gorgeous country, but the hills and hollers have a dark side. James Earl Ray, who had already assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., created mayhem at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary when he led six other men in a short-lived escape. Several thousand Cherokee Indians from East Tennessee were forced on what would later be called the "Trail of Tears." In the "Hankins Murder" case and in the triple killings in Oliver Springs, chaos and confusion resulted from the wrongful arrest and public accusations of innocent people. Jake and C.H. Butcher brought about bedlam with their banking scandal that at the time was unsurpassed in scope in the nation's history. Author Dewaine A. Speaks details these stories and more.