PROGRAM

FOR

MEMORIAL SERVICES

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO

LOST THEIR LIVES IN

FRATERVILLE MINE EXPLOSION

COAL CREEK, TENNESSEE

ON MONDAY, MAY 19TH 1902

STATEMENT

On the morning of Monday, May 19th 1902, at 7:30 just after all the men had entered 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 then in the mine, numbering somewhere from 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 but a short time, while a goodly number were able to escape to the headings and entries in parts of the mine away from the explosion, and there exist for several hours, until death came from 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 dead hereon printed, and statements herein made are in no way to be considered as official nor as having the sanction of the employing company, nor of any labor union, but is the statement gotten up by the program committee of the citizens meeting held on the evening of May 23rd, and is published by said committee as the most correct list which they have been able to procure from all available sources.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

R. B. ADKINS,

E. F. FOSTER,

REV. J. W. CARNES,

PRICE, 10 CENTS