Train Wrecks and Accidents


Rockville Center Long Island, NY Train - Auto Wreck, Oct 1909

TRAIN HITS AUTO; TWO MEN KILLED

They Are Hurled Into the Telegraph Wires Overhead and a Third Seriously Injured.

GAVE NO HEED TO SIGNALS  read more »

East Thompson, CT Train Wreck, Dec 1891

Great East Thompson Train Wreck

FOUR TRAINS SMASHED UP

DISASTROUS ACCIDENT ON THE NEW-ENGLAND ROAD.

TWO FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDED, THEN TWO PASSENGER TRAINS RAN INTO THE WRECK---THREE MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED.  read more »

Bemis Station, ME Train Wreck, Jan 1891

DOWN A HIGH EMBANKMENT.

FATAL WRECK ON THE MAINE CENTRAL----STANLEY HAD JUST PASSED.  read more »

Concord, NH Train Wreck, Aug 1896

SEVERAL PASSENGERS INJURED

And Three May Die as the Result of a Railroad Accident.  read more »

Seymour, CT Train Wreck, Jul 1889

THE NAUGATUCK BLOCKED

WRECK OF A NEW HAVEN FREIGHT.  read more »

Campbell Hall, NY Train Wreck, Mar 1920

Fireman Killed In O. & W. Wreck.

Special to The New York Times.  read more »

Pocatello, ID Train Accident, Oct 1912

SECTION HAND IS KILLED

John Alisantis Run Over by Train on Short Line.

(Special Dispatch.)  read more »

Advance, IN Young Girl Saves Train, Dec 1901

YOUNG GIRL SAVED THE TRAIN

From the Chicago Chronicle:  read more »

Perryville, IA Train Wreck, Dec 1901

EIGHT DEAD, MANY HURT

Fearful Collision on Illinois Central Yesterday.

CONDUCTOR IGNORED ORDERS

Trains Were Running at Full Speed.

EFFORTS TO AID FUTILE  read more »


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