Buffalo Creek

Album: American Minor (2005)
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  • The song's title refers to the bursting of the Buffalo Creek Dam in Logan County, West Virginia which released 132 million gallons of black waste water on February 26, 1972. The waste water was a product of the Pittston Coal Company, who also owned the dam. 125 people were killed, 1,121 injured and over 4,000 left homeless. >>>
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    Andrew - Huntington, WV

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  • Franklin Brown from Ocklawaha FloridaActually, it was 3 dams built like stairs up in a hollow at the head of Buffalo Creek. We had a big snowfall. Then it rained for 4 days. Top dam broke, ran into the 2nd dam which instantly broke, those 2 ran into the bottom dam that instantly broke. 132 million gallons of water and sludge came down Buffalo Creek. It wasn't so much a flood as it was a tsunami. 125 people died that morning. 5 or 6 of which they've never found.
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