Buffalo Creek Disaster

On February 25, 1972 a dam burst which had been built by Pittston Coal Company in my hometown. Here are a list of people killed and missing.

Killed, Age, Residence Brookie Mae Adkins, 31, Lundale, WV Lonnie Lee Adkins, 7, Lundale, WV Mary Jane Adkins, 5, Lundale, WV David B. Adkins, Sr., 27, Lorado, WV David B. Adkins, Jr., 4, Lorado, WV Steven Albright, 17, Lorado, WV Sylvia Albright, 39, Lorado, WV Janice Bailey, 32, Saunders, WV Kimberly K. Bailey, 6, Saunders, WV Jason Bailey, Jr., 11, Saunders, WV Rhoda Rene Bailey, 8, Saunders, WV Carla J. Bailey, 18 months, Saunders, WV James Bailey, Jr., 16, Amherstdale, WV John H. Bailey, 58, Lundale, WV Eleanor Bailey, 44, Lundale, WV Milton Baker, 71, Lundale, WV Effie Baker, 68, Lundale, WV Joyce Bartram, 40, Lundale, WV Betty Lee Black, 51, Lundale, WV Edith Blankenship, 61, Lorado, WV Rebecca Broady, 15, Lundale, WV Donna Sue Browning, 21, Lundale, WV Norman B. Browning, 3, Lundale, WV James Brunty, 82, Kistler, WV Dessie Butcher, 57, Lundale, WV Leonard Butcher, 66, Lundale, WV Ballard Carter, 36, Lundale, WV Janice H. Carter, 29, Lundale, WV Matthew Carter, 6, Lundale, WV Lillian S. Carter, 3, Lundale, WV Margaret L. Davis, 35, Stowe, WV Mary Jane Davis, 8, Stowe, WV Willie Dempsey, 42, Lorado, WV Aletha V. Dempsey, 38, Lorado, WV Berma Jo Dickerson, 20, Lundale, WV Steven T. Dickerson, 18 months, Lundale, WV James Dillon, 32, Lorado, WV Thelma Dillon, 36, Lorado, WV

Killed, Age, Residence Curtis Dillon, 10, Lorado, WV Sharon Dillon, 13, Lorado, WV Darla Dillon, 5, Lorado, WV Howard Dillon, 8, Lorado, WV Ruth Ann Elkins, 29, Lundale, WV Judy Ferguson, 27, Lundale, WV Connie S. Ferguson, 18 months, Lundale, WV Martha E. Gunnells, 21, Robinette, WV David Gunnells, 3, Robinette, WV Jessie Gunnels, 1, Robinette, WV Etta P. Hatfield, 60, Lundale, WV Layton O. Hatfield, 50, Lundale, WV Ruth B. Hatfield, 53, Lundale, WV Steven Hatfield, 16, Lundale, WV Albert O. Hedinger, 34, Godby, WV Angela J. Hopson, 2, Crites, WV Margaret Y. Jarrell, 42, Lundale, WV Karen Jarrell, 16, Lundale, WV Patrick Jarrell, 24, Lundale, WV William L. Jarrell, 50, Lundale, WV Lottie May Jarrell, 45, Lundale, WV Andrew Johnston, 73, Crites, WV Grace Kennedy, 71, Easley, SC (visiting relative) Gary M. King, 24, Lundale, WV Sharon A. Lester, 25, Saunders, WV Denise Lester, 3, Saunders, WV Norman Lester, 24, Saunders, WV Dennatta Lester, 5 to 7, Saunders, WV Opal Lester, 45, Saunders, WV Barry K. Lester, 15, Saunders, WV Rita J. Lester, 16, Saunders, WV Mary B. Marcum, 44, Latrobe, WV Diana L. McCoy, 18, Amherstdale, WV Kimberly McCoy, 3, Amherstdale, WV Jesse Messer, 35, Lorado, WV Augusta Miller, 69, Pardee, WV Robert Murray, 71, Lundale, WV Wandell Osborne, Sr., 37, Lundale, WV

Killed, Age, Residence Jeanette Osborne, 35, Lundale, WV Regina Osborne, 12, Lundale, WV Carolyn Osborne, 20 months, Lundale, WV Geneva Osborne, 11, Lundale, WV Wandell Osborne, Jr., 15, Lundale, WV Henrietta Owens, 22, Lundale, WV Thomas Owens, 3, Lundale, WV Herbert Peters, 71, Pardee, WV Martha Peters, 71, Pardee, WV Callis Perry, 81, Pardee, WV Margie M. Prince, 42, Amherstdale, WV Macie Queen, 54, Lorado, WV Otis Ramey, 49, Latrobe, WV Mattie Ramey, 45, Latrobe, WV Virgie A. Ramey, no age give, Latrobe, WV Marvel R. Scarberry, 73, Lundale, WV Goldie Sipple, 38, about 38, Lorado, WV Anita Smith, about 17, Lundale, WV Florencio Sosa, 65, Lorado, WV Mary M. Sosa, 46, Lorado, WV Gladys Staton, 25, Lundale, WV Kevin Staton, 1, Lundale, WV Della Trent, 69, Saunders, WV Johnny Trent, 32, Saunders, WV Gene Trent, 26, Saunders, WV Henry Trent, 49, Saunders, WV Wanda Trent, 39, Saunders, WV Betty Frances Vernatter, 4, Lorado, WV Thomas Vernatter, 65, Latrobe, WV Ethel B. Vernatter, 65, Latrobe, WV Roby L. Waugh, 45, Lundale, WV James L. Waugh, 11, Lundale, WV Grady M. Waugh, 18, Lundale, WV Donald Waugh, 20, Lundale, WV Larry K. Wauch, 5, Lundale, WV April E. White, 11, Lundale, WV Dora Wiley, 60, Latrobe, WV Richard Wiley, 78, Crites, WV Frank Lee Workman, 69, Lorado, WV Three unidentified babies

Missing

Dorinda L. Adkins, 3 months, Lorado, WV
Samuel Carter, 20 months, Lundale, WV
Roscoe Clay, 74, Lorado, WV
James N. Davis, 2, Stowe, WV
Nancy Hopson, 1, Crites, WV
Donald McCoy, Jr., 18 months, Amherstdale, WV
Kathy Waugh, 8 months, Lundale, WV