Birmingham News, Nov. 17, 1908
"Convicts Perish in Flames Started by Their Own Hands: At Least a Dozen Negroes Thought to Have Perished"
Birmingham Age-Herald, Nov. 18, 1908
"Eight Convicts Perish in Fire Kindled in Bold Effort to Escape: Fifty Men in Pratt Mine Plan Bold Break for Liberty Which Results in Agonizing Death of Eight of Their Comrades"
Birmingham News, Nov. 18, 1908
"Convict Mine Resumes Work: Eight Men Lost Their Lives on Account of the Fire; ... Three State and Five County Prisoners Were Suffocated"
