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1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck August 10–11 – United States – Chatsworth, Illinois –1887 Great Chatsworth train wreck: A fifteen-car train of fully occupied Pullman sleepers and coaches on the Toledo, Peoria and Western bound for Niagara Falls, approached a wooden trestle over a shallow "run" just before midnight that was on fire ...
A Union Pacific train was flagged down over a wooden bridge and the Wild Bunch boarded it and blew up the safe with dynamite and stole $36,000. [36] [37] Cochise, Arizona: September 9, 1899 Alvord-Stiles Gang The gang led by Bill Downing held up the train crew and detached the Wells Fargo express car from the train and stole $10,000. [38]
The driver of another freight train deliberately ignores a red signal and consequently his train is in a rear-end collision with the first train. [ 67 ] 5 October – Ireland – 1853 Straffan rail accident – A Great Southern and Western Railway express passenger train fails south of Straffan , County Kildare due to a broken piston rod on the ...
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]
Among the dead was State Senator Webster Wagner, inventor of the sleeping cars used on the train, between two of which he was crushed to death, [1] and a newlywed couple who died together after the bride refused to allow a rescuer to cut her clothing so she could escape. It was the deadliest rail accident in New York City at that time ...
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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 ...
The number of stops made by this train between Albury and Wagga is not recorded, but those succeeding are known with some certainty: They left Wagga Wagga at 17:15 in heavy rain, Junee junction at 18:20 [12] or 18:30, [13] Illabo at 18:55, and Bethungra at 19:14, the driver having been given the "all clear" by the station-master. [13]