Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its ... the Santa Clara River Valley. Visit the dam site, follow the 54-mile flood path to the Pacific, and uncover stories of ...

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s St. Francis Dam collapsed ... More than 400 people in the flood’s 53-mile path to the sea were drowned ...

This article was originally published March 11, 2019. In March 1928, the worst civil engineering failure in California history killed more than 450 people when a wall of water carved a path of ...

There are no signs, no memorials, nor even any recognizable ruins that mark the location where, on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis ... living in the dam's hypothetical flood path should it fail.

The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon had failed, and the resulting flood ultimately took the lives of 400 to 600 people and destroyed over 1,200 homes. It also wrecked the sterling ...

“The St. Francis Dam is out! We’ve got a helluva flood coming!” was the frantic message shouted over and over by a few Ventura County sheriff’s deputies who raced to warn towns and ranches ...

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.

On this day in 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed ... down San Francisquito Canyon in a flood wave, taking victims and destroying everything in its path. This great read from the Smithsonian ...

The flood path was home to many migrant workers ... I mean, these are the stories that were never told in the writing of the St. Francis Dam disaster that we only know because of this newspaper ...

“The St. Francis Dam is out! We’ve got a helluva flood coming!” was the frantic message shouted over and over by a few Ventura County sheriff’s deputies who raced to warn towns and ranches ...