Ashtabula River railroad disaster
The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror or the Ashtabula Bridge disaster or the Ashtabula train disaster) was a derailment caused by the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River about 1,000 feet (300 m) from the railroad station at Ashtabula, in far northeastern Ohio. On December 29, 1876, at about 7:30 pm, two locomotives hauling 11 railcars of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway carrying 159 passengers plunged into the river in deep snow when the bridge gave way beneath them. The wooden cars were set alight by their heating stoves, but no attempt was made to extinguish the fire. The accident killed 92 people, including the gospel singer and hymn-writer Philip Bliss and his wife, and was the worst rail accident in the U.S. until the Great Train
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Ashtabula River railroad disaster
The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror or the Ashtabula Bridge disaster or the Ashtabula train disaster) was a derailment caused by the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River about 1,000 feet (300 m) from the railroad station at Ashtabula, in far northeastern Ohio. On December 29, 1876, at about 7:30 pm, two locomotives hauling 11 railcars of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway carrying 159 passengers plunged into the river in deep snow when the bridge gave way beneath them. The wooden cars were set alight by their heating stoves, but no attempt was made to extinguish the fire. The accident killed 92 people, including the gospel singer and hymn-writer Philip Bliss and his wife, and was the worst rail accident in the U.S. until the Great Train
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Der Eisenbahnunfall von Ashtab ...... von Nashville am 9. Juli 1918.
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La catastrophe ferroviaire d'A ...... rroviaire de 1918 à Nashville.
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The Ashtabula River railroad d ...... gate fatal railroad accidents.
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1877-01-20
Wood engraving published in Harper's Weekly,
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1876-12-29
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Ashtabula River railroad disaster
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Derailment and fire
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Der Eisenbahnunfall von Ashtab ...... von Nashville am 9. Juli 1918.
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La catastrophe ferroviaire d'A ...... rroviaire de 1918 à Nashville.
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The Ashtabula River railroad d ...... the U.S. until the Great Train
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Ashtabula River railroad disaster
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Catastrophe ferroviaire d'Ashtabula le 29 décembre 1876
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Eisenbahnunfall von Ashtabula
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