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Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies.
A subsequent enquiry found the dispatcher, who fled the scene, to be negligent. [ 2 ] The dead were buried in unmarked graves next to the track, where they remained for 47 years until 1911 when they were moved to the Woodlawn National Cemetery at Elmira, and the Shohola Monument erected with the names of the Union soldiers on one side and the ...
Twenty-one passengers die. The cause is found to be an improperly secured gondola load—a section of 13-inch (330 mm) pipe fell from a freight car onto the adjacent track and was struck by a passenger train. [47] April 8 – United Kingdom – Stratford tube crash: 12 people were killed as a result of a rear-end collision in a tunnel.
Jackson County prosecutors have charged a Kansas City man with murder in the killing of a woman whose body was found in a wooded area near railroad tracks in March 2022.. Richard Z. Holliday, 39 ...
Originally believed to be a result of enemy sabotage, but later found to be caused by defective rails. 3 soldiers dead and 36 soldiers injured. [ 21 ] April 18 – United Kingdom – A London Brighton and South Coast Railway freight train becomes divided with the result that four wagons come to rest in Redhill Tunnel, Surrey .
October 19 – United States – 20 cars of Missouri Pacific Railroad train No. 94 derailed in Houston; two tank cars loaded with vinyl chloride monomer were punctured, allowing the gas to escape and ignite; 45 minutes after the derailment a third tank car exploded and a fourth was "rocketed" some 300 feet (91 m) away; a fireman was killed and ...
The railroad sent a special relief train with doctors and nurses. By late night all injured and most bodies had been recovered. All three mainline tracks were blocked by wreckage. It was 27 hours before trains started to slowly move through the crash site and three days before all wreckage was cleared. [7]
Led Pennsylvania's Supreme Court to formulate a rule that when a railroad accepts money from passengers, an implied contract of care upon the part of the company arises; thus negligence is presumed on the part of the railroad if a passenger is injured [20] 1878 Tariffville train crash, Tariffville, Connecticut; 13 killed plus 70+ injured.