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Did you know... 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?
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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
- 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 FarmTalk04:12, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply
A fact from Walnut Grove Dam appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 November 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... 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?
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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Dams, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Dams on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... 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
- 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 FarmTalk04:12, 19 October 2022 (UTC)reply