Natural Disaster · 1903

The Canadian Town Buried in 90 Seconds (Frank Slide, 1903)

At ten past four in the morning, the people of a small mining town are asleep when they hear the mountain above them crack. Ninety seconds later, half the town is gone, buried under a wall of rock. The town is Frank, in the Canadian Rockies.

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