in central West Virginia on February 26, 1972, when I first learned of the Buffalo Creek disaster. An hour or two had passed since the flood had swept through the Buffalo Creek community. Someone ...

West Virginians are marking the ... 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 ...

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 ...

The day before the disaster hit, Perry Harvey went fishing on Buffalo Creek for one reason ... was no longer an option on the southern West Virginia waterway. The makeshift dam had collapsed ...

MAN, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia’s 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster is being remembered in a mural and a documentary. Artist Kevin Ledo of Montreal began work on the mural Tuesday. His canvas is the ...

In 1972 a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia ... with actual footage of the flood and scenes of the ensuing devastation.