William Floyd Collins was an American cave explorer who became trapped and died in what became Mammoth Cave National Park. The incident earned major media attention during the efforts to rescue him.
Collins' home – 1st cave ticket booth – (left) and 2nd cave ticket booth (right)
Stairway built by Collins and his brothers leading down to Great Crystal Cave
Collins's entrance to Great Crystal Cave
Sand Cave at Mammoth Cave National Park
Moose River Gold Mines is a Canadian rural community located in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. It is at the junction of Moose River Road and Mooseland Road. No numbered highways run thro
Floyd Collins
…Collins" in 1925. American rock band Black Stone Cherry features a song titled "The Ghost of Floyd Collins" on their album Folklore and Superstition. Moose River Disaster, mine cave-in covered extensively on radio in 1936 Tragedy at Sand Cave (U.S. National Park Service…
J. Allister Bowman, district plant superintendent, Maritime Tel & Tel, using earphones to listen for entombed men