Kenneth Lafler , Investigative Journalist

      In 1928 near what is today Magic Mountain , the worst civil engineering disaster in Untied States history occured.         Designed by the DWP Engineer William Mullhulland , the dam was designed as a storage facility in case of an earthquake on the San Andreas fault line . It was located in the San Francisquito Canyon near lake Elizabeth in the Leona Valley which was in and of it's self the San Andres. if a dam such as this fails the results are simply beyond belief. Everything in the flood waves path is ripped to shreds. Only three people in the canyon actually  survived the disaster and then only by luck. The canyon today has a ghostly feel to it. The death toll was set at seven hundred fifty but most likely was much higher being at the beginning of the great depression of the nineteen thirties hundred of homeless people were living in the Santa Clara River bed,  Even today at new housing projects , the ...