On March 14, 1928, the collapse of St. Francis Dam, responsible for transporting water to Los Angeles County, was reported worldwide, reporting up-to-date details of the tragedy.
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. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...
Just before midnight in March 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed without warning. More than twelve billion gallons of water exploded into the Santa Clarita River Valley. Entire towns were erased in ...
On March 14, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, responsible for transporting water to Los Angeles County, collapsed and was considered one of the greatest civil engineering disasters of the 20th century in ...