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West Cambridge, MA Train Wreck, Sept 1892

A RAILWAY HORROR.

A Terrible and Fatal Accident at West Cambridge, Mass.

A Train Telescoped, With Much Loss of Life.  read more »

Shelburne Falls, MA Train Wreck, Apr 1886

A Passenger Train in Massachusetts Plunges 200 Feet Down an Embankment.

The Cars Take Fire and a Passenger is Roasted Alive Without the Chance of Succor.  read more »

Chester, MA Train Wreck, Sept 1893

A TRAIN'S FATAL PLUNGE

IT GOES THROUGH A BRIDGE IN MASSACHUSETTS  read more »

Bardwell's Ferry, MA Train Wreck, Apr 1886

FEARFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT

An Express Train Plunges Down an Almost Perpendicular Precipice.

Only Three Persons on Board Known to Have Escaped Injury.  read more »

Ashley Falls, MA Train Wreck, Aug 1910

Great Barrington, Mass., Aug 18.--A large automobile containing a party of five from Bristol, Conn.  read more »

Lawrence, MA Tornado, Jul 1890

A Number of Lives Lost, Many Persons Killed and Injured and Hundreds of Houses Razed to the Ground -- The Victims.  read more »

Baldwinville, MA Locomotive Boiler Explosion, Dec 1893

Fitchburg Engine Blows Up.

Wrecked at Baldwinville - Engineer and Fireman Seriously Injured.

Special Dispatch to The Republican.

Athod, Thursday Evening, December 7.  read more »

New Bedford, MA Schooner J. W. Campbell Wrecks, Apr 1896

NINE FISHERMEN LOST.

Schooner Campbell of Gloucester Sinks Off Long Island.

STRUCK BY A SUDDEN SQUALL.  read more »

Boston, MA Schooner Gracie H Benson Sinking, Nov 1894

SIX DROWNED

A Fishing Schooner Run Down and Sunk in Boston Harbor  read more »

Boston, MA Steamer Rose Standish Sinking, Aug 1884

The Steamer Rose Standish Sinks in Boston Harbor Near the Wharf.  read more »


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