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February 5 – United States – 1887 Hartford Railroad Disaster: On the Vermont Central Railroad, in very cold weather, a rail broke under the Montreal Express train as it approached the 650-foot (200-metre) bridge over the White River. The derailed car pulled four others off the bridge and they crashed to the ground upside-down 42 ft (13 m ...
1833 Hightstown rail accident, Hightstown, New Jersey; two killed plus 15 injured. Earliest recorded train accident involving the death of passengers. [1] [2] 1837 Suffolk head-on collision, Suffolk, Virginia; 3 killed plus dozens injured. Later in the year, a second accident resulted in ten injuries, with two of them ultimately dying. [3]
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A train belonging to The West Indian Fast Mail was stopped north of Monroe Junction, two of the men forced the fireman and train engineer, a man known only as Dumas, to stop the train. The other men attempted to enter the express car but were stopped by two men W. N. Saunders and I. M. Cox, Saunders was shot in the breast and later died.
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The Pikes Creek Tragedy was a train wreck that took place on Oct. 2, 1884, costing the lives of 10 men and injuring several others. The derailment occurred on the Bayfield branch of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway, roughly midway between the towns of Bayfield and Washburn, Wisconsin. Years later, one writer recounting the ...
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