12 1925 newspapers Cave Explorer FLOYD COLLINS trapped in MAMMOTH CAVE Kentucky

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Lot of twelve (12) 1925 newspapers Cave Explorer FLOYD COLLINS trapped in MAMMOTH CAVE Kentucky and finally succumbs after a 2 week rescue attempt
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inv #  6W-209
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SEE PHOTO----- Lot of twelve (12) issues of an ORIGINAL newspaper, the
Lewiston Journal
(ME) dated in 1925: Feb 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 18, 1925.
Contents include the day by day attempt to rescue
famed cave explorer FLOYD COLLINS
, who became trapped under a huge boulder in MAMMOTH CAVE, Kentucky and finally died from exposure to the elements.
This is a real TIME MACHINE that takes the reader back 95 years to 1925 !!
William Floyd Collins (July 20, 1887
– c. February 13, 1925), better known as Floyd Collins, was an American cave explorer, principally in a region of Central Kentucky that houses hundreds of miles of interconnected caverns within Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system in the world. In the early 20th century, in an era known as the Kentucky Cave Wars, commercial cave owners and explorers in Kentucky entered into a bitter competition to exploit the bounty of caves for commercial profit from tourists, who paid to see the caves. In 1917, Collins had discovered and commercialized Crystal Cave on Flint Ridge (now part of the Mammoth Cave System but at the time an isolated cave). But the cave was remote and visitors were few. Collins had an ambition to find another cave he could open to the public closer to the main roads, and entered into an agreement with a neighbor to open up Sand Cave, a small cave on the neighbor's property. On January 30, 1925, while working to enlarge the small passage in Sand Cave, Collins became trapped in a narrow crawlway 55 feet below ground. The rescue operation to save Collins became a national newspaper sensation and one of the first major news stories to be reported using the new technology of broadcast radio. The rescue attempt grew to become the third-biggest media event between the world wars.
After four days, during which time rescuers were able to bring water and food to Collins, a rock collapse in the cave closed the entrance passageway, stranding him in the cave, except for voice contact, for more than two weeks. Collins died of thirst and hunger compounded by exposure through hypothermia after being isolated for 14 days, just three days before a rescue shaft reached his position. Collins' body would be recovered two months later.
Although Collins was an unknown figure in his lifetime, the fame he gained from his death led to him being memorialized on his tombstone as the "Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known".
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