Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A group of men surround a large pile of dirt and rubble that has trapped a workman who was in the water tunnel. In March 1935, a water tunnel in San Dimas caved in and trapped one worker. W. T. Shields, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp who was working on the tunnel, was killed in the incident. This photograph is likely related to the article, “Tunnel Cave-ins Back Slide Victim’s Rescue,” Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar 1935: 1 Text from negative sleeve: Cave-ins, San Dimas tunnel, 1939 nitrates Handwritten on negative: San Dimas Tunnel Cave-in 3/35 [illegible] Entrance
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