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.

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 ...

Soledad Luna was at home asleep when the St. Francis Dam collapsed ... Then the waters hit. The flood wiped out everything in its path: Power stations, homes, oil rigging, ranches, railroad ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 1920s photograph of the St. Francis ... long after the dam was built and this picture was taken, the structure collapsed, unleashing 12 billion gallons of water in a flood that killed over ...

“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 ...

Ninety years ago this week, the worst civil engineering failure in California history claimed more than 450 lives and left a path of staggering destruction. The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito ...