Those were the headlines for April 8, 1900 — as reimagined "in the style of the day" for the American-Statesman on April 8, 1976 — when the Austin Dam, which supplied the city with almost all its ...

THEcomplete failure of the Austin dam, with its resultant loss ... It was suggested at the time that the failure of the dam to withstand the flood of 1910 was due to two causes.

On March 14, 1928, the L.A. Times and national news outlets announced the first reports of the St. Francis Dam collapse.

Fund Chairman Barry Cassidy stated that the organization will attempt to determine damages through the study. “I think we found enough irregularities to proceed, and we will need to determine the ...