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Eliza McGraw’s article for Smithsonian about the “Cave Wars” was interesting but two glaring errors. She wrote “...or climbed onto the vehicles’ running boards—narrow platforms attached to car doors—“
ReplyDeleteRunning boards on cars and trucks or trolleys for that matter were never attached to doors. The whole point was using them to get in and out with the door open.
Ok, that’s minor faux pas to the story, but the second one is very direct...
“knocked over a 27-pound boulder that pinned his ankle in place.” He died pinned by a 27 lb rock?
Lexington Herald-Leader article say that rock was 8 tons which makes much more sense.
Both of those are very wrong, and I totally did not see them. Floyd Collins was pinned by a huge boulder PLUS lots of other rock that kept anyone from digging far enough to see where his foot was pinned. No hope for amputation, even if they could get a doctor down there.
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