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The Buffalo Creek Disaster

Author
Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins
Published
Sat 22 Apr 2023
Episode Link
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-buffalo-creek-disaster--53594708

In February, 1972, a coal company muck dam along Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia, collapsed after a winter of heavy snow and rain. The resulting flash flood of water and gob destroyed homes, businesses and took several lives in that Appalachian holler.

Today we tell that story.

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