Template:Did you know nominations/Walnut Grove Dam

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 21:12, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Walnut Grove Dam

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... 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"
- ALT1: ... that the Walnut Grove Dam killed over 100 people when it collapsed in 1890? Source: See above
- ALT2: ... that William Phipps Blake, the grandnephew of Eli Whitney, was the first chief engineer of the Walnut Grove Dam, even though he had no experience in civil engineering? Source: TERROR ON THE HASSAYAMPA, p. 286
- ALT3: ... that rather than warning those downriver of the impending failure of the Walnut Grove Dam, a messenger got drunk, leading to the deaths of more than 100? Source: See above
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom

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

- Article is new enough and long enough, and QPQ done. Hooks are interesting and reliably source in article. Earwig is clean. No issues with the DYK criteria stand out. Hog Farm _Talk 04:12, 19 October 2022 (UTC)