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Tragedy of Sand Cave

by Howard W Hartley, ©1925, Louisville, KY.

Floyd Collins

Picture courtesy of Kentucky Down Under, Horse Cave, KY

These Chapters are reprinted by permission of Sandra K. Gorin, who presented the writing on the SCKY email list. The lecture was taken from the book authored by Howard W Hartley, ©1925, Louisville, KY.

  Table of Contents
Prologue  
The Ballad of

Floyd Collins

 
Chapter 1: Collins Enters the Cave
Chapter 2: The Entrapment
Chapter 3: The Discovery
Chapter 4: The First Sabbath
Chapter 5: The World Aroused
Chapter 6: Moonshine - Muck - Madness
Chapter 7: The Case of Johnny Gerald
Chapter 8: Nature Trumps the Second Trick
Chapter 9: The Shaft is Started.
Chapter 10: Dig - Dump - Pray
Chapter 11: The Military Inquiry
Chapter 12: Nature Blocks the Shaft
Chapter 13: The Final Dash
Chapter 14: Collins Found Dead
Chapter 15: Cavern Made an Eternal Mausoleum
Epilogue: