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From: "Susan Shane Miller" <>
Subject: Re: [TNCAMPBE-L] Fraterville Mine Explosion 1902
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 14:19:48 -0800
References: <200301040814_MC3-1-228E-8E7C@compuserve.com>


There are a number of websites that include a bit of information on the
Fraterville Mine disaster. Here's a few of them:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3415/FMD.html

http://www.coalcreekaml.com/Fraterville%20100th.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3415/FMDlink.html


Susan

Searching Bain/Bayne, Bullock, Bussert, Evans, Jones, Leiner/Leinart,
Loschen, Mason, Miller, Moser, Murray/Murry, Saddler/Sadler, Seiber, Shane,
Trauernicht

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheila Strunk" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 5:14 AM
Subject: [TNCAMPBE-L] Fraterville Mine Explosion 1902


> The Fraterville Mine explosion at Coal Creek TN occurred on Monday, May
> 19, 1902. 193 men were killed.
>
> What follows is a statement issued by the United Mine Workers.
> "On the morning of Monday, May 19, 1902 at 7:30, just after all the men
had
> entered the Fraterville mine, there occurred in that mine one of the most
> disastrous mine explosions that has ever occurred in America. Out of all
> the men and boys who were in the mine, numbering somewhere form 180 to
200,
> not a single person escaped with his life. Some were killed instantly,
some
> were shut up in small passages and rooms and probably lived bit a short
> time, while a good number were able to escape the headings and entries in
> parts of the mine away from the explosion, and there exist for several
> hours, until death came form suffocation and after damp. Probably the
> longest any lived was from seven to eight hours, while most of the men
died
> within a much shorter time. The presence of unbearable heat and of after
> damp in the mine, prevented the escape and caused the death of all those
> who were not injured in the explosion. The list of death herein printed is
> published as the most current one obtainable form all available sources.
> "
>
>


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