US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A line of men stand at the edge of the ditch holding pieces of timber into the crevice. Another man leans over the edge and scrapes at the dirt with a shovel. One of the victims can be seen in the crevice, his head a few inches from the surface. Three laborers employed by the Bureau of Power and Light were seriously injured when the walls of a sixteen-foot ditch collapsed. It is speculated that the timberwork used to support the dirt was not strong enough. The victims were John M. Burns, who suffered a crushed chest and laceration about the head and face, Robert Rosenthal, who suffered contusions of the head, lacerations of the arms, and a possible spinal injury, and Bernard Glennin, who sustained internal injuries and a sprained shoulder. Photograph appears with the article, "Three Men, All Hurt, Saved from Ditch Cave-in Death," Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr 1937: A1. Text from negative sleeve: 8475 - EXCAVATION CAVE-IN ON HIGHLAND, INJURING THREE 4/23/37 [stamped:] Apr 23 1937 Text from newspaper caption: When a Bureau of Power and Light ditch caved in yesterday, three workers were caught under sixteen-foot wall of dirt and stones. A hand of one victim can be seen protruding as men toiled to rescue them. All were removed alive but injured. Times photo
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14639 ark:/21198/zz002j88bb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Excavation--California--Los Angeles Wounds & injuries--California--Los Angeles Rescues--California--Los Angeles Rosenthal, Robert, b. 1918 or 19 Glennin, Bernard Thomas, 1896-1969 Burns, John M., 1892 or 93
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