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Bomb Seals Floyd Collins' Body Underground, Feb. 19, 1925

Bomb Seals Collins Tomb

A dispatch from Cave City, Ky., states that a dynamite bomb yesterday sealed the mouth of the cave where Floyd Collins was found dead, it having been decided to make his perpetual tomb the place where he was buried alive and endured terrifying solitude for days, while desperate and heroic efforts were made to rescue him.

From the front page of The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 19, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn84026483/1925-02-19/ed-1/seq-1/#words=FEBRUARY+19%2C+1925

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