A couple of days after the St. Francis Dam disaster which occurred on March 12/13, 1928, the front page of the Oxnard Daily Courier published a list of the dead, the first name listed being: "Mrs. Jesus Carillo and 8 children, Fillmore". After listing about 30 additional names (many misspelled) the article continued: "Between 200 to 500 believed dead and damage estimate at millions of dollars in the toll of the most disastrous flood in the history of Ventura county. The breaking of the San Francisquito dam was caused by seepage of water around the west end of the dam, loosening the earth so that the supports gave way, according to Colonel Mulholland, engineer, and was not due to dynamiters or to an earthquake. When the west portion of the hill supporting the dam gave way, it released a wall of water, 75 feet high that swept the entire Santa Clara river valley." Mrs. Carrillo and her children were buried at Bardsdale Cemetery. Adolfo was 6 years old.∼5 year old victim of the St. Francis Dam disaster. The dam was built between 1924 and 1926 under the supervision of William Mulholland, chief engineer and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, then called the Bureau of Water Works and Supply. Three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood killed more than 450 people. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is one of the worst American civil engineering failures of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest loss of life in California's history, after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire. The disaster marked the end of Mulholland's career. Many bodies were never recovered. Some were found as late as the 1970's.