Stern, Gerald M.

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The Buffalo Creek disaster

how the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought suit against the coal company--and won
1977
Examines the Buffalo Creek disaster of February 1972 which unleashed one hundred thirty million gallons of water and coal waste into the Buffalo Creek Valley killing one hundred twenty-five people and leaving thousands homeless and the lawsuit against the coal company by the four thousand survivors.
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