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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]
Rail transport; Train wreck; Tram accident; Train-pedestrian fatalities This page was last edited on 26 July 2024, at 20:09 ... Lists of rail accidents.
The Great Train Wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Two passenger trains, operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway ("NC&StL"), collided head-on , costing at least 101 lives and injuring an additional 171.
A train accident or train wreck is a type of disaster involving two or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication , as when a moving train meets another train on the same track, when the wheels of train come off the track or when a boiler explosion occurs.
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 ...
The train derailed on a curve while leaving East Glacier Park station. RAR-80-6: April 2, 1980 Silver Star: Lakeview, North Carolina: Train collision 0 123 The train collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train. RAR-80-8: July 9, 1980 Quaker City: Linden, New Jersey: Equipment collision 1 17 The train struck a rail protruding from ...
Site of the Revere, Massachusetts, train wreck, 26 August 1871 26 August – United States – Great Revere train wreck of 1871: A series of dispatching errors allow the Eastern Railroad's Portland Express to run into the rear of a stalled local train at Revere, Massachusetts. The wreckage catches fire; 29 people are killed and 57 are injured.
Hammond Circus train wreck June 22 – United States – Hammond circus train wreck, near Hammond, Indiana: An empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train collides into the rear end of the stopped Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train, resulting in 86 deaths and 127 injured. The engineer of the troop train had been taking "kidney pills" that had a ...