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Margaret Wilcox was born in 1838 in Chicago, Illinois.Little is known about her early life, [citation needed] which was common for many women of her era, whose personal histories were often overshadowed by their male counterparts. [1]
On the morning of December 22, 2024, a woman, later identified as Debrina Kawam (born Debbie Kawam [2]), was immolated by a man while she was sleeping [3] on the New York City Subway while an F train was stopped at the Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue station in Brooklyn.
In North America the term "railcar" has a much broader sense and can be used (as an abbreviated form of "railroad car") to refer to any item of hauled rolling-stock, whether passenger coaches or goods wagons (freight cars). [3] [4] [5] Self-powered railcars were once common in North America; see Doodlebug (rail car).
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]
Catherine Carroll Shelley (December 12, 1863 – January 21, 1912 [1]) was a midwestern United States railroad heroine and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named after her, the Kate Shelley High Bridge. She was also one of the few women to have a train named after her, the Kate Shelley 400. [2]
Of 48 passengers in the railcar, 34 are killed. [ 27 ] February 26 – United States – Seven passengers and two enginemen are killed and some 40 others injured when a Fort Wayne Division Akron -to- Pittsburgh train of the Pennsylvania Railroad derails one mile (1600 m) short of Penn Station , its destination, just before 2200 hrs.
Seventy people died and 27 were injured. [30] December 26 – United States – One person died and 38 people sustained non-life-threatening injuries after four cars of a train derailed while rounding the curve just north of York–Dauphin station, Philadelphia. [citation needed]
March 23 – Indonesia – Hundreds of passengers died after a railroad bridge broke, causing a passenger train to crash and slide into the Anai Valley in Tanah Datar. [67] May 21 – United States – Piqua, Ohio: a seventeen-car westbound troop train, travelling on the Pennsylvania Railroad line, derails at high speed. Eight cars plunge down ...