In a strange, dramatic accident, 16 men slid hundreds of feet inside the Grapevine Canyon siphon of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and escaped death. A man named Johnson slipped, bowled over another man, and so on until the 16 strung along the 45-degree angle pipe fell to the botton in a "human avalanche." The photo-diagram shows how Johnson fell more than 800 feet, nearly twice the height of Los Angeles City Hall. Some of the others fell nearly as far. This, the 9-foot steel siphon at No Name Canyon, was dynamited in an alleged new outbreak of the battle between Owens Valley ranchers and the city water bureau over valley water rights. Photo date: June 2, 1927.
Water-supply--California Aqueducts--California Dynamite--California Los Angeles Aqueduct (Calif.) Owens Valley (Calif.) Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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