Floyd Collins

William Floyd Collins July 20, 1887 c. February 13, 1925 was an American cave explorer in central Kentucky, an area which houses hundreds of miles of interconnected caves, including the Mammoth Cave National Park. On January 30, 1925, while trying to discover a new entrance to the system of underground caves that were a popular tourist attraction in Kentucky, Collins became trapped in a narrow crawlway 55 feet below the surface. The reports about efforts to save Collins became a nationwide newspaper sensation and among the first major news stories to become a sensation on the new technology of broadcast radio. The rescue attempt grew to become the thirdbiggest media event between the world wars.

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