On the evening of Sept. 8, 1923, Southern Pacific Railroad foreman John Giorvas was sitting in his second-story bedroom of the Honda Point Section House doing his weekly management reports. Shortly after 9 p.m., he heard two loud explosions at the base of the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Giorvas and some of his men […]
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Prying open ‘The Devil’s Jaw’
Ninety years ago, local residents responded to the largest peacetime loss of naval vessels in American history