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  • 'Oh God, for one more breath'

    05/12/2002 12:36:35 PM PDT · by Tennessee_Bob · 10 replies · 427+ views
    Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | May 12, 2002 | Fred Brown
    'Oh God, for one more breath'In the cold, choking blackness of the Fraterville Mine, death whispered their names one by oneBy Fred Brown, News-Sentinel Senior writerMay 12, 2002FRATERVILLE -- Monday, May 19, 1902. At 7:30 a.m. in Coal Creek, another spring day is unfolding. Wildflowers dot the hillsides and mountains of Anderson County, their bright blooms poking through the long green grass. They paint a peaceful scene in a place where, a dozen years before, bullets whined through these same mountains during the coal wars between miners, state militia and convicts. But the coal mine convict lease system at the...