1944 Troop Train Wreck : As Published in the 2007 Historically Speaking Column of the Oak Ridger Newspaper

Troop train wreck that occurred July 6, 1944 in the Jellico Narrows. One of the 25 worst train wrecks in the nation. Young soldiers were just going to war when the awful wreck killed 34 and injured over 100 of the new recruits