The St. Francis Dam: America's Deadliest Dam Collapse

<p>Just before midnight in nineteen twenty-eight, a concrete dam holding back twelve billion gallons of water gave way north of Los Angeles. A wall of water as tall as a twelve-storey building roared fifty-four miles through the dark, and by morning more than four hundred people were dead. And the brilliant engineer whose name was on the dam had inspected it that very morning — and declared it safe.</p><p>This episode tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster: William Mulholland, the self-taught genius who built modern Los Angeles, the unstable ground no one checked, the muddy leaks he waved away, and the deadliest civil-engineering failure in American history — a monument to the most dangerous kind of confidence.</p><p>New dark story every day. Follow Six Feet of History wherever you listen.</p><p> #History #DarkHistory #HistoryPodcast #TrueHistory #Disaster / #StFrancisDam #Mulholland #LosAngeles #EngineeringDisaster #SixFeetOfHistory</p><p>St. Francis Dam, William Mulholland, dam disaster, dam collapse, Los Angeles, 1928, San Francisquito Canyon, engineering failure, flood, dark history, history podcast, California history, disaster history, true history, dam safety, hubris, Los Angeles Aqueduct, man-made disaster, Six Feet of History, catastrophe</p>