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  2. scvhistory.com › scvhistory › ng0101SCVHistory.com | St. Francis Dam Disaster | Photo Gallery ...

    NG0101. Nicknamed the Tombstone for obvious reasons, the center section (Block 1) of the St. Francis Dam shifted several inches and twisted slightly but remained standing when the rest of the dam collapsed at three minutes to midnight Monday, March 12, 1928. Some of the photos in this series from the John Nichols Collection also show the "wing ...

  3. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › occasions-i-envyOn Occasions Like This, I Envy the Dead: The St. Francis Dam ...

    Mar 12, 2015 · Matt Blitz. March 12, 2015. The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times. It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St ...

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  5. www.fillmorehistoricalmuseum.org › st-francis-damSt. Francis Dam Disaster | Fillmore Historical

    Three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending over 12 billion gallons of water and debris rushing down the Santa Clara River Valley from San Francisquito Canyon to the Pacific Ocean, 54 miles away. In six hours more than 450 people were swept away in the dark and murky waters.

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  6. www.britannica.com › event › St-Francis-Dam-disasterSt. Francis Dam disaster | Los Angeles, William Mulholland ...

    The dam’s purpose was to provide a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. Several cracks and leaks were observed in the dam and its abutments, but Mulholland dismissed these as normal. After the reservoir was filled to capacity for the first time on March 7, 1928, he inspected the dam and proclaimed it safe.

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  8. www.library.ucla.edu › about › newsForgotten L.A. history: The deadly St. Francis dam disaster

    Mar 12, 2024 · Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the collapse of the St. Francis Dam, a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam in St. Francisquito Canyon occurred, killing over 450 people and leaving a path of destruction 2-miles-wide and 70 miles long. Known as the United States’ worst civil engineering disaster of the 20th century, the dam, located ...

  9. stfrancisdammemorial.org › the-st-francis-dam-disasterThe St. Francis Dam Disaster

    Sep 30, 2019 · As the dam was filled up between 1926 and 1928, this unstable hillside became saturated with water, causing a massive landslide on the evening of March 12, 1928. The collapse occurred just five days after the dam was filled for the first time to near capacity on March 7. Causes of the Collapse According to Rogers

  10. www.atlasobscura.com › articles › notes-from-theNotes From the Field: Exploring the Remains of a Forgotten ...

    Aug 22, 2013 · On March 12, 1928 the St. Francis Dam burst, sending a wall of water up to 78 feet high at times through the Santa Clara Valley. Gigantic chunks of concrete, twisted metal, and everything the ...