Workers clear flood debris with tractors after the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam. on March 12. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
A group of nurses is gathered around a front porch after the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam. This photograph may be related to the article, "Thousands Rush To Aid in Work of Rescue and Relief: Red Cross Directs Gigantic Task of Succor in Devastated Area; Water Board Appropriates $25,000; Food and Shelter Needed Immediately "Times" Flood Relief Fund," Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 1928: 1.
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
View of six little girls in an open area in front of a relief camp with 20 visible tents. Three more children and a man are in the background, 4 (water?) tanks are behind the camp and mountains are in the distance.
Families displaced by the flood resulting from the failure of the Saint Francis Dam wait in line for medical assistance in an area cordoned off with a rope outside a tent. Two nurses and another woman are at a table at the head of the line.
