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The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire occurred from December 22 to December 23, 1910 in Chicago, resulting in the deaths of twenty-one Chicago Fire Department firemen. [1] Until the September 11 attacks, the fire was the deadliest building collapse in American history, [1] although the Texas City Disaster of 1947 killed more firefighters overall ...
Chicago Union Stock Yards fire may refer to: Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910) , 21 firefighters and 3 civilians killed Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1934) , second-most destructive Chicago fire in terms of property loss
The Chicago Union Stock Yards fire of 1934 was the second-most destructive fire in the city's history, after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, in terms of property damage and buildings lost. [1] The Union Stock Yards of Chicago , Illinois in the United States were, at the time, the commercial butchering and meatpacking center of the Midwest .
Herceghalom rail crash December 1 – Austria-Hungary Herceghalom rail crash – At Herczechalen (now Herceghalom, Hungary), an express from Vienna to Budapest, carrying many soldiers back from the funeral of Emperor Franz Joseph I, collided with a local train, killing 66 people and injuring 150. It is suggested that a signal was missed in the ...
Stevenage railway station serves the town of Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. The station is around 27.6 miles (44.4 km) north of London King's Cross on the East Coast Main Line . The station lies just to the north of Langley junction, a grade separated junction where the Hertford Loop Line diverges from the East Coast Main Line; the two ...
Horrific video shows suspect watching woman burn to death in F train car after he allegedly set her on fire Tina Moore, Larry Celona, Joe Marino, Steve Janoski, Dorian Geiger December 22, 2024 at ...
(The lone heroes in this story were the high schoolers who recognized Zapeta-Calil later in the day, at the Jay Street-Metrotech station, and called police.) Not too long ago, an atrocity like ...
April 12 – United States – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two. [9] [10]May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were ...