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A 100-year-old tragic cave accident led to this national park. Here's what happened.
MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. — During a late January tour of Mammoth ... While scoping out nearby Sand Cave on Jan. 30, 1925, the 37-year-old got stuck on his way out. As he twisted and squeezed through ...
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The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation
It was an unusually warm Kentucky winter ... Johnnie Gerald entered Sand Cave for his final time. He hunched past the newly shored walls, ferreted around the first squeeze, and crawled through ...
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100 years after his death, this Kentucky cave explorer's story is Broadway bound
The Western Kentucky man's goal was to turn Sand Cave into a tourist attraction, but instead, Collins himself became a national sensation when he ends up trapped 200 feet underground. Throughout ...