Austin Dam

Austin Dam - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Austin Dam failure, also referred to as "The Great Granite Dam" failure, was a catastrophic dam failure near Austin, Texas that killed several dozen people in 1900. The destruction of the dam drained the Lake McDonald reservoir and left the city of Austin without electrical power for a number of months. Read more on Wikipedia

type: dam
date from: 1890

Source: en.wikipedia.org