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April 12, 1909 – Gary, Indiana, United States: A westbound Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend Railroad train runs past a meet point and causes a head-on collision with the eastbound train … and of
June 19, 1909 – Burns Harbor [sic], Indiana, United States: An eastbound Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend Railroad train runs past a meet point and causes a head-on collision with the westbound train …
Citation from the list: June 16, 1925, – Rockport, New Jersey (near Hackettstown). A seven car Lackawanna Railroad passenger train travelling to Hoboken, New Jersey encountered an obstruction on the tracks during a torrential rainstorm. The train was derailed and subsequently the engine boiler exploded scalding passengers. Two cars flipped over onto the locomotive, essentially cooking the passengers. Fifty persons were killed. The train was an excursion train with passengers returning to Bremen, Germany. A small memorial plaque marks the site of the wreck. --
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Citation from the list: July 6, 1927 - Mendoza, Argentina 30 Chilean army cadets are killed on their way to Buenos Aires. What do Chilean army cadets in Argentina? --
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April 30, 1900 –
Vaughan, Mississippi, United States:
Illinois Central passenger train No. 1, the Cannonball, crashes into the rear of freight train No. 83 which is fouling the main line out of a siding at 3:52Â a.m. on the Water Valley District of the Mississippi Division. Engineer of 4-6-0 ten-wheeler No. 382,
John Luther "Casey" Jones, the only fatality, is wrongly found to be solely at fault by the ensuing investigation. The accident spawns the vastly popular "
Ballad of Casey Jones" by roundhouse worker and friend of the deceased,
Wallace Saunders, and the root theme for a
Grateful Dead song titled "
Casey Jones".
May 22, 1900 –
Oakland, California, United States:
Southern Pacific passenger local is mistakenly switched into a narrow-gauge track. The iron rail curls up beneath the locomotive, flipping it over and killing the engineer and fireman. The engineer, Frank Shaw, is last seen shutting down the locomotive's steam and is credited with saving the lives of the passengers, none of whom are killed or seriously injured.
September 2, 1900 –
Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States: Going from Souderton to Philadelphia, a
milk train collided with an excursion train, killing 13 people and injuring 45.
September 21, 1906 –
Napanee, Ontario, Canada: A
Grand Trunk Railwaypassenger train hits a stopped freight train at a crossover in
Napanee, Ontario; the engineer stayed at the controls trying to slow his train as much as possible. He was the only fatality. The train's passengers later erected a monument in the engineer's honor.
November 12, 1906 –
Detroit, Michigan, United States: A train of the
Michigan Central Railroad drives through the stub end of the Michigan Central's Third Street passenger yard and into the station itself.
May 21, 1908 –
Kontich, Belgium: 40 people are killed as a train crashes into a stationary passenger train in the railway station of
Kontich.
September 4, 1909 –
Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, United States: A westbound
Baltimore & Ohio train is derailed when tracks are deliberately sabotaged along the banks of the Beaver River. Although two men were arrested the next day, they were later released and the crime was never solved. 3 were killed, 20 injured.
August 25, 1911 –
Manchester, New York: Two cars connected to the
Lehigh Valley Railroad's Number 4 train derail near a bridge in Manchester, New York due to a broken rail. The cars plummet 45 feet (14Â m) into the stream below. Nearly 30 people are killed and dozens more injured in the wreck.
1912 –
Malmslätt, Sweden: A train runs into a stationary passenger train, leaving 22 dead and 12 injured.
July 30, 1913 –
Tyrone, Pennsylvania, United States: Two
Pennsylvania Railroad trains collide in front of the station at
Tyrone when the engineer of Chicago Mail train No. 13 runs through a stop signal, and his locomotive crushes the rear coach of train No. 15, the Pittsburgh Express. The first postal car of the moving train is thrown across the track into the front of the depot. The engineer is killed and 163 passengers are injured. Collision occurred at 2:38Â pm. All-steel cars on both trains are credited with the low mortality.
December 1, 1916 –
Herceghalom, Austria-Hungary: The train arriving from the funeral of
Franz Joseph I crashes into the fast train to
Graz. 71 people killed.
February 17, 1917 –
Mount Union, Pennsylvania, United States: A
Pennsylvania Railroad fast freight strikes the rear of a stalled passenger train at Mt. Union. Twenty are killed as the last sleeper, a steel car named Bellwood, telescopes into the next car.
February 26, 1917 – Holmsveden near
Soderhamn, Sweden: A train carrying invalid Russian soldiers home from Germany derails, causing the carriages to pile into one another. 11 are killed and 40 injured.
September 24, 1917 – at
Bere Ferrers railway station in England a troop train of soldiers from New Zealand going from
Plymouth to
Salisbury following their arrival in Britain stopped at the station for a brief rest. Being unaccustomed to British railways, they alighted from their troop train onto the tracks. Ten soldiers were struck and killed by an oncoming express on another track.
July 26, 1918 – A freight train carrying dynamite explodes, with passenger cars damaged at Shimonoseki station,
Shimonoseki, western
Honshū, Japan, killing at least 27, injuring another 106.
February 3, 1922 – At least 87 are killed when six cars of a passenger train fall into the
Sea of Japan between
Oyashirazu and
Ome on the
Hokuriku Line, western
Niigata, Japan, in an incident caused by an avalanche after heavy snowfall.
July 23, 1923 –
Domingo, New Mexico, United States: Westbound
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway double-headed fourteen-car passenger train derails on curve at Domingo, killing both engineers and firemen, and injuring 45 passengers.
June 3, 1924 – A passenger train derails near
Jõgeva, Estonia. 10 people are killed and numerous people are injured. The exact cause of the accident remains unknown. Although the government said this was a criminal act no further comments were given.
July 4, 1924 – A post train derails near Jõgeva, Estonia, due to a broken rail. 11 people are killed.
December 27, 1924 – According to reports in Japanese newspapers
Mainichi and
Yomiuri, Temiya railroad station and Otaru harbor facilities are destroyed by the explosion of a standing freight train carrying dynamite at
Otaru,
Hokkaido, Japan, killing at least 94.
September 21, 1925, – Two armoured trains crashed near
Elva, Estonia. The accident happened during military exercises and left five soldiers dead. The cause of the crash was a coordination fault.
June 19, 1926 - Just west of
Manayunk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mr. Charles Elliott, a laborer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was struck and killed by the Passenger Extra 1524 Train at 13:26, traveling east, 550 feet west of the Miquon Station, the first station outside the Philadelphia city limit. He was 59 years old, single, and lived with his niece Ms. Andrews at Shawmont. He had worked for the Schuylkill Division for 35 years.
December 23, 1926 –
Rockmart, Georgia: Two express trains on the
Southern Railway collide, killing 19 and injuring 123. Southbound train No. 101, the Royal Palm, arrives at Rockmart to take on water while waiting for northbound No. 2, the Ponce de Leon. At the moment of impact, No. 101 was standing at a dead stop, the engine crew having applied the emergency brakes and jumped when it became clear that a collision was inevitable. All of the fatalities occur aboard No. 2, most in the crowded steel dining car, which is telescoped by the coach ahead of it. No. 2 was said to have been going at least 40Â mph (64Â km/h) at the time of the crash. Official reports blame the failure of a railway official who took charge of train No. 2, as well as its engineer, to fully understand their meet orders with No. 101, and their confusion of No. 101 with a freight train just preceding it.
November 27, 1926 -
Doucet, Quebec, Canada: Steam boiler explosion at
Doucet, on the Transcontinental line. The dead are: John Carpenter, 50 foreman of Longueuil, Quebec. Arthur Lepage, 47 pipefitter, Leopold Lepage, assistant pipefitter, Leopold Blais, 26 bridgeman and Clement Cantin, 65 work-man. The explosion occurred in the engine roundhouse at
Doucet of the Canadian National Railways.
January 22, 1927 –
Round Rock, Texas: A bus carrying the
Baylor University basketball team to a game at the
University of Texas at Austin takes a grade crossing just as an
International-Great Northern train approaches. Evasive action is taken, but the bus skids on the rain-soaked road surface directly into the path of the train. 10 players are killed, 12 injured. To this day Baylor honors them as the "Immortal Ten."
January 22, 1929 –
Bellevue, Ohio, United States: Bus is struck by an interurban car. 21 killed.
July 18, 1929 –
Stratton, Colorado, United States: Flash flood waters sweep away the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad bridge at Stratton, wrecking a passing Rock Island passenger train. Ten bodies are recovered after flood waters recede.
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Okay, I get that an image isn't considered a reliable source, but I hoped it would drive the potential for research on the accident. ---------
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I've also got a lot of technical issues lately, so adding references and doing research has been a bit curtailed. My PC is currently in the shop, so I've had to borrow others. ---------
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