Deadly Fountain
A man and four children attending a Baptist convention in Texas drowned in the Fort Worth Water Gardens fountain. Apparently, the man’s 8 year-old daughter fell into the fountain and was pulled under by the suction of a 440-horsepower pump used to circulate water. He and several people at the fountain went in after her. The $7 million Water Gardens project, designed and built by Philip Johnson in 1974, was also the site of a toppled 80-foot-tall light standard that struck and killed two IRS employees attending a Fort Worth conference in 1991.
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