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Buffalo Creek Disaster
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Buffalo Creek Disaster
One of the deadliest floods in US history; it occurred in February, 1972, in southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow and is attributed to negligent strip mining and heavy rain; 125 died and over 4,000 people were left homeless
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His book, for example, totally overlooks one of the major historical events of his county's history: the devastating Buffalo Creek flood that killed more than 125 people in 1972 after an illegal dam built by a coal company broke just after dawn, and a wall of black water washed away several communities as the families slept.
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