Photo No. 20 from The Newhall Land and Farming Co.'s March 24, 1928 report
on the March 12-13 St. Francis Dam Disaster.
Friends of farmer Joe Gotardi (aka Gottardi) search for the bodies of Gotardi's dead wife
and five dead children on the "Blue Cut" property he leased from Newhall Land,
west of the decimated Edison Construction Camp. Of his family, only Gotardi and one of
his daughters survived.
Original caption by Almer M. Newhall reads as follows:
No. 20 His friend's [sic] helping.
From Plate VII.
