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A gas and coal dust explosion at The Fraterville Mine near Coal Creek, Tennessee, USA, kills 184 miners and other workers. This horrific incident will inspire the compositions Coal Creek March and Last Pay Day At Coal Creek, best-known in versions by noted banjo picker Pete Steele. Another song dealing with the same incident is Shut Up In Coal Creek Mine, recorded in 1929 by Green Bailey.
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