On Feb. 26, 1972, an earthen dam in Logan County’s Buffalo Creek collapsed after heavy rain, unleashing a flood of 130 million gallons of water, sludge and debris through 16 coal mining towns.

On Feb. 26, 1972, a Pittston Coal owned coal slurry dam broke loose at the head of Buffalo Creek causing 132-million gallons of slurry to flood more than a dozen small communities. Residents had ...

Southern West Virginia had seen terrific rainfall in the days preceding the Buffalo Creek Disaster. People in Logan County had heard rumors that the shaky, oozing coal waste dam in Middle Fork ...

Excerpts from the Appalshop documentary “The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man,” produced and directed by Mimi Pickering and released in 1975. The film investigates the cause and impact of the ...

The loss of more than 100 people in the Buffalo Creek disaster ... determined the dam had been poorly constructed. The state’s investigation into the disaster is filled with controversy.

The dam break and flood killed 125 people and injured 1,100. It left 4,000 people homeless. The water destroyed 507 houses, 44 trailers, and 30 businesses. Along Buffalo Creek in Logan County many ...

A new study that identified three options for settling the fate of Williamsville's 90-year-old Ellicott Creek dam has stirred ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) — On this day 45 years ago 125 were killed in the Buffalo Creek disaster ... 1972 a Pittston Coal Company dam on Buffalo Creek collapsed after days of continuous ...

Judges on the state’s top court on Thursday asked attorneys for five government and quasi-government entities who they believe owns a dam in Buffalo Creek in ... as part of a flood-control ...

In 1972 a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. A wall of sludge, debris, and water tore through the valley below ...