Buffalo Creek Disaster
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Scan day: 18 February 2014 UTC
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Description: Details the events and aftermath of this 1972 gob dam failure in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow.
More than thirty years ago, one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history occurred in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. Negligent strip mining and heavy rain produced a raging flood. In a matter of minutes, 118 were dead and over 4,000 people were left homeless. Seven were never found.
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