113: Floyd Collins’ Rescue Becomes a Circus (Part 3)

Reporters swarmed. Crowds gathered. State officials arrived on scene. People were hungry for information about the trapped cave explorer, Floyd Collins. They wanted to rescue the man trapped 55 feet below the earth’s surface. But a collapse halted any further attempts through Sand Cave.

Locals and state experts disagreed on the best path forward. And as they argued, hope dwindled.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Collins, Homer, and John Lehrberger. The Life and Death of Floyd Collins. Cave Books, 2001.
Kem, David Randolph. The Kentucky Cave Wars: The Century That Shaped Mammoth Cave National Park. David Randolph Kem, 2014.
Murray, Robert K., and Roger W. Brucker. Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins. University Press of Kentucky, 1982. https://archive.org/details/trappedstoryofst0000murr.
Reilly, Lucas. “The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation.” Mental Floss, July 13, 2018. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544782/1925-cave-rescue-that-captivated-the-united-states-floyd-collins.

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