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1906 Woodville Train Wreck, Porter County, Indiana; at least 48 confirmed killed plus many missing and at least 81 confirmed injured [68] 1906 Washington, D.C., train wreck; 53 killed plus 70 injured. Led to a complete U.S. ban on wooden coach construction; the accident is notoriously described in Frank Kuntz's book Undergraduate Days 1904-1908 ...
1. Deaths. 52 [1] The Green Mountain train wreck is the worst ever railroad accident in the state of Iowa. It occurred between Green Mountain and Gladbrook on the morning of March 21, 1910, and killed 52 people. [1][2] A train wreck earlier that morning at Shellsburg meant that the Rock Island Line trains were being diverted from Cedar Rapids ...
Non-fatal injuries. 7. On the evening of July 19, 2018, a duck boat operated by Ride the Ducks sank on Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri, in the United States. The amphibious vehicle sank with 31 people on board, leaving 17 dead, during high winds associated with nearby severe thunderstorms as part of a significant derecho ...
January 16 – United States – Chunky, Mississippi – Alabama & Vicksburg Railway passenger train no. 1 crashes in a creek. One person is killed with a few injured. 80 passengers were on board the westbound train. March 18 – United States – San Antonio, Texas – A Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad locomotive, Number 704 ...
I-43 begins in Rock County as the eastern leg of a T interchange with I-39/I-90 just east of Beloit.The highway becomes WIS 81 west of the interchange. The Beloit-to-Milwaukee segment of I-43 passes mainly through farmland situated on rolling hills, going around urbanized areas except for in the greater Milwaukee area, where the route passes through suburban residential areas with some ...
May 2 – India – A car carrying munitions exploded at a Central Railway marshalling yard at Bhusaval station, killing seven people and injuring 31. [105] May 31 – Romania – Soon after starting from Bucharest, an express to Galați collided with a local train; 38 people were killed and 65 were injured.
Witham rail crash. September 1 – United Kingdom – The Witham rail crash in Essex killed 11 and injured 71. Beginning cleanup after the Ninth Avenue derailment; picture from the German Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift of November 2, 1905. September 11 – United States – Ninth Avenue derailment, Manhattan, New York.
Church Rock uranium mill spill. The Church Rock uranium mill spill occurred in the U.S. state of New Mexico on July 16, 1979, when United Nuclear Corporation 's tailings disposal pond at its uranium mill in Church Rock breached its dam. [1][2] The accident remains the largest release of radioactive material in U.S. history, having released more ...