McDonald Dam failure
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The McDonald 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.
Subsequent attempts to rebuild the dam were unsuccessful. The dam was finally replaced by the Tom Miller Dam, just upstream, in the 1940s.
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List of natural disasters by death toll, [1].
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER, [2].
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