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Thread #84312 Message #1558603
Posted By: pdq
07-Sep-05 - 01:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Orleans Will Drown Again
Subject: RE: BS: New Orleans Will Drown Again
Not everyone has heard of the St. Francis Dam break, even in California, so here is a little about it...
St. Francis Dam
Here is a excert form that article:
"Officially, at least 450 people died. The real toll is believed to be higher because an unknown number of migrant farm workers had been camped along the Santa Clara River. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the St. Francis Dam collapse was California's deadliest disaster. It also was recorded as the worst American civil engineering failure of the century."
And more about the chief engineer:
Mulholland