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Wind N. Froze hard last night. Expecting some person across the Mountain this week." January 21, 1847: Patrick Breen's diary: "Fine morning. Wind W. Did not freeze quite so hard last night as it has done. John Battice & Denton came this morning with Eliza. She won't eat hides. Mrs Reid sent her back to live or die on them. Milt. got his toes froze.
Disasters in Chicago (1 C, 6 P) Coal mining disasters in Illinois (6 P) ... This page was last edited on 3 June 2024, at 21:57 (UTC).
A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago occurred during the cloudy morning rush hour on October 30, 1972, and was the worst such crash in Chicago's history. Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners, overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line, and the engineer asked and ...
Three people, of which two were police officers and one a firefighter, were injured when a garbage truck exploded in a Chicago suburb last Friday.. The police officers and firefighter were ...
The Breens made it up the "massive, nearly vertical slope" 1,000 feet (300 m) to Truckee Lake (now known as Donner Lake), 3 miles (4.8 km) from the pass summit, and camped near a cabin that had been built two years earlier by members of the Stephens–Townsend–Murphy Party. [75]
Once they did, they alerted the Chicago Fire Department, which arrived at the scene on Runway 32L about a minute later, three minutes after the crash. [ 1 ] : 19–20 Employing 11 crash and fire vehicles and two ambulances, the fire department extinguished the fire in about 16 minutes at around 6:19 p.m. CST. [ 1 ] : 10
NOLA Ready, the city's official disaster preparedness agency, confirmed before 6 a.m. CST that there had been a "mass casualty incident involving a vehicle that drove into a large crowd on Canal ...
All units in both trains would return to service except the Advance Flyer's last coach and the dining car; both were total losses. [25] [26] Following this disaster, advancements in train speed in the United States essentially halted. [21] [22] However, select Amtrak passenger trains run at up to 150 mph (240 km/h) as of 2013.