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The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, between Camp Hill station (known as Sandy Run, Camp Hill, Sellwick and finally Fellwick station before being closed in 1996) and Fort Washington station, on July 17, 1856. Two trains, traveling on the same track in converging directions, collided, killing between 59 ...
1856 Great Train Wreck of 1856, Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania; 60+ killed plus 100+ injured. Encouraged busier railroads in the Eastern U.S. to double track lines; also led to mandatory use of telegraph in cases of delays [9] 1859 South Bend train wreck, Mishawaka/South Bend, Indiana; 42 killed plus 50 injured [10] [11]
The 1856 Panama Railroad accident was a derailment at the Panama Railroad of an express train with around 900 passengers near the Gatun's Bridge, nine miles from Aspinwall, Panama on 6 May 1856. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Thirty to forty passengers lost their lives with over 70 people being injured.
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 17 July – United States – Great Train Wreck of 1856 – Two North Pennsylvania Railroad passenger trains are in a head-on collision at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, including a train on an excursion from a Sunday school [83] at St. Michael's Catholic Parish in Philadelphia. Fifty-nine people are killed in the crash and ...
On July 17, 1856, Fort Washington was the site of one of the worst train accidents in the United States when two North Pennsylvania Railroad trains collided with one another near the Sandy Run station, later renamed Camp Hill, now the defunct Fellwick Station). The exact number of deaths is uncertain, but 59 were killed instantly and dozens ...
All but 16 of 132 people on board perished when Le Lyonnais sank in 1856 off Massachusetts. Now a New Jersey dive team has found the ship. Steamship that sunk in 1856 with 132 on board discovered ...
The wreck of a passenger steamship that sank in 1856 in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered about 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, a New Jersey-based salvage group said.
Great Train Wreck of 1856; M. Mud Run disaster; S. ... Walter L. Main Circus train wreck This page was last edited on 9 July 2024, at 20:19 (UTC). Text ...