- BC-1744/40
- Item
- After 1950.
Sign reads: "Frank Slide April 29 1903. Disaster struck the town of Frank at 4:10 A.M. April 29thth 1903 when a gigantic wedge of limestone 2.100 feet high 3.000 feet wide and 500 feet thick crashed down from Turtle Mountain. Ninety million tons of rock swept over a mile of valley, destroying part of the town, taking 70 lives, and burying an entire mine plant and railway in approximately 100 seconds. The old town was located at the western edge of the slide where many cellars still are visible.".
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