Bacco, W.VA.--This was the scene along Buffalo Creek at this tiny Logan, County mining town after a wall of water swept down the hollow after a mine slag dam gave way. Gov. Arch Moore of Q. Va. said 2/26 the death toll was between 80 to 90 or more.

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Bacco, W.VA.--This was the scene along Buffalo Creek at this tiny Logan, County mining town after a wall of water swept down the hollow after a mine slag dam gave way. Gov. Arch Moore of Q. Va. said 2/26 the death toll was between 80 to 90 or more.

United Press International · [ca. February 1972]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Floods: 1970s

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