On April 29, 1903, 122 years ago today, a small mining town in the Canadian Rockies was jarred awake by a deafening sound of what would become North America's deadliest rockslide. Just after 4 a.m.
In April 1903, part of Turtle Mountain collapsed, sending an estimated 110 million tons of rock crashing down on the town of Frank, Alberta. The slide lasted less than two minutes but buried homes, ...