Date: 1909-12-01; Paper: Daily Herald

"Miners Entombed by Fire Accident"

Eight Men Fail to Escape After the Alarm at Copper Hill, Tenn.

Ducktown, Tenn., Nov. 30.—Eight men are entombed in the London Copper mine of the Tennessee Copper Co. two and a half miles east of this city. Their predicament is the result of a fire yesterday afternoon and last night when the breaker and shaft house, power house, engine house, air, compressor house and offices were totally
destroyed. The shaft house, a structure which towered 180 feet In the air, was located immediately on the mouth of the shaft which is sunk at an angle.
The fire damage was such as to cause a slight cave-in about the mouth of the mine and this, together with the machinery in the shaft becoming disabled and debris falling into the shaft, imprisoned  eight of the eighty men who were in the subterranean workings.
 As soon as the fire was discovered an alarm was sounded and the men from below began to come to the surface.
Seventy-two made their escape, but eight were cut off and are thought to be at a level about six hundred feet below the surface of the earth. Heroic measures were at once taken to their lives and everything is being done to
rescue them.

Transcribed and Contributed  by Barbara & Bill Ziegenmeyer

PREACHER LOCKED UP

Date: 1899-08-29; Paper: Daily Herald

Tried Illicit Distilling and Was Caught

Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 28, Rev. Thomas Payne, a Baptist minister of North Carolina living near the Tennessee line, is a prisoner in the county jail here on the charge of illicit distilling.

He was arrested a few days ago by federal officers and the United States commissioner at Benton, Polk County, held him over for the federal court. The alleged clergyman could not give bond and he was brought to the Hamilton county jail to await trail in October.

transcribed by Pam Rathbone

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