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1863 Chunky Creek Train Wreck, Hickory, Mississippi; ~75 killed plus ~25 injured.All but one of the dead were Confederate reinforcements headed for Vicksburg, with the disaster--Mississippi's deadliest rail disaster to date--further hindering the city's defenses against Union forces [12]
Museums; Platform screen doors; Railway speed record; Suicide; Terminology (AU, NA, NZ, UK) ... Train wreck; Tram accident; Train-pedestrian fatalities This page ...
The Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mail train, officially known as the Fast Mail (train number 97), while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, on September 27, 1903.
Site of the Revere, Massachusetts, train wreck, 26 August 1871 26 August – United States – Great Revere train wreck of 1871: A series of dispatching errors allow the Eastern Railroad's Portland Express to run into the rear of a stalled local train at Revere, Massachusetts. The wreckage catches fire; 29 people are killed and 57 are injured.
The Great Train Wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Two passenger trains, operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway ("NC&StL"), collided head-on , costing at least 101 lives and injuring an additional 171.
June 23 – United States – Camp Creek train wreck – McDonough, Georgia: A Southern Railway train from Macon, Georgia bound for Atlanta ran into a washout over Camp Creek near McDonough and plunged 60 feet (18 m) into the swollen creek below before bursting into flames, killing 39 of the 49 aboard. The flagman, J.J. Quinlan, acted ...
Montparnasse derailment with one fatality at Gare Montparnasse in Paris, 1895 Wheels from Engine Tender#013 which was destroyed in a wreck in 1907 on a bridge over Village Creek between Silsbee and Beaumont, Texas. The wheels are on display in the Arizona Railway Museum. A train accident or train wreck is a type of disaster involving one or ...
Shepherdsville train wreck December 20 – United States – Shepherdsville train wreck, a rear-end collision in Shepherdsville, Kentucky kills 49 people. December 29 – United States – Two Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger trains collide a mile (1600 m) east of North Vernon, Indiana , killing eight people and injuring 21.