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[1] Arizona's Worst Disaster, by Jim Ligget, is a full book on the subject of the building and collapse of the dam, and could probably be used to take this to GA. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n! 18:19, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk21:12, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that a drunkard's negligence and shoddy construction led to the deaths of more than 100 people in the Walnut Grove Dam collapse? Source: Page 304 of TERROR ON THE HASSAYAMPA: "Shoddy contractors heightened the danger by allowing serious defects in the dam walls. Finally, on the night the dam broke, management failed to warn people living below the dam, thus causing a great loss of life." From https://web.archive.org/web/20151118011026/http://dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=48987 "Dam superintendent Tom Brown sent the wrong man to warn all the people downstream, including more than 100 men working on a the mining diversion dam about 15 miles below. He sent a known drunkard named Dan Burke, and as Cooper noted, he made a second fatal mistake too: he paid Burke ahead of the task. Burke got drunk instead." Also, the event " killed approximately 100-150"

Created by CaptainEek (talk). Self-nominated at 22:41, 18 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]