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Originally Posted by odinthor

Here it is, e_r:


LA Times 3/3/1938, via ProQuest, via CSULB Library

Thanks for solving the pedestrian bridge tragedy, odinthor. It's such a sad story.

While looking for additional information on the 10 victims (two women, a small boy, four sailors, four civilians)
I happened upon the "Lash of St. Francis" tropical storm that devastated the area the following year. (1939)

"The Lash of St. Francis (El Cordonazo de San Francisco) winds and rains came unexpectedly and suddenly, startling some Long Beachers
who had hit the strand that Monday during a searing summer heat wave that brought record-breaking temperatures of 103 degrees
just a few days earlier. As gales reached 65 mph, the Navy deployed four new destroyers attached to the Battle Fleet,
and the Coast Guard added a pair of cutters to rescue boaters in the Catalina Channel.

In all, 48 people were killed in California, including 24 aboard the vessel Spray (two passengers survived) as it was attempting to dock
near Point Magu and 15 aboard the Ventura fishing boat Lur."



The death toll of the Flood of 1938 was 96 people.

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