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Douglas Daily Dispatch
Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona
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The St. Francis Dam near Los Angeles collapsed, unleashing floodwaters that caused death and destruction in the valley. The 185-foot-high dam's concrete slabs were swept nearly a mile downstream. Engineers recommended investigating the cause with reclamation chief Ellwood Mead.
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The scene above shows where the pent up waters of St. Francis Dam near Los Angeles broke the tremendous concrete wall and rushed down into the valley to bring death and destruction. In the little circle below a man is standing. His size gives a sense of the immensity of the dam, which is 185 feet high. Huge concrete slabs, weighing thousands of tons, like those pictured to the left, were washed nearly a mile down the valley.
The inset shows Ellwood Mead, chief of the reclamation service of the United States department of the interior.
The American Society of Engineers has recommended that he probe the cause of the dam break.
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The pent-up waters of the St. Francis Dam near Los Angeles broke through the concrete wall, rushing down into the valley to bring death and destruction. The dam was 185 feet high, with huge concrete slabs weighing thousands of tons washed nearly a mile down the valley. The American Society of Engineers recommended that Ellwood Mead, chief of the reclamation service, probe the cause.