St. Francis Dam Victims
Newhall, California

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At least 78 bodies were stacked up at one time inside the Masonic hall at Railroad Avenue and Market Street in Newhall, aka Hap-A-Lan dance dall, which was converted into one of several makeshift morgues along the St. Francis floodpath. Volunteers were already setting up improvised slabs inside the building at 4 a.m. on March 13, 1928, before the flood had even reached the Pacific Ocean.

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