KILLED FIGHTING FIRE Head of Briceville Relief Committee Electrocuted on Roof Briceville, Tenn.. Dec. 13. Thomas Watts, head of the Briceville mine disaster relief committee, was electrocuted while leading a fight on a fire in the town of Coal Creek, of which he was mayor. Coal Creek is four miles from Briceville. The fire was In an undertaker's coffin house. Watts had climbed to the tin roof of an adjoining building, which had come in contact with a live wire. He died instantly. Source: Mansfield News, Mansfield, Ohio, December 16, 1911