Category:Cross Mountain Mine disaster
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English: The Cross Mountain Mine disaster — a coal mine explosion at the Cross Mountain Mine near Briceville, in Anderson County, Tennessee.
- Eighty-four miners died as a result of the December 9, 1911 explosion.
- The likely cause of the explosion was the ignition of dust and gas released by a roof fall.
Media in category "Cross Mountain Mine disaster"
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- Coal mining in Tennessee
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- Coal mining disasters in Tennessee
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- 1911 mining disasters
- 1911 disasters in the United States
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- 1911-12-09
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