One hundred years ago, a Fraterville coal mine collapsed, killing 184 miners. Tommorow, townspeople will gather in the town's cemetery, as they do every year on this anniversary, to remember those men. Mine disasters occurred with alarming frequency until 1970, when a horrible mining accident led to the establishment of the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
See "Coal Mine Disaster Haunts Tennessee City", Ken Mink, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 17, 2001