Talk:List of rail accidents (1880–1889)

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 * January 20, 1883 – Tehachapi Pass, California Passenger cars runaway on pass and crash. Among those believed killed is the wife of ex-California Governor John G. Downey.
 * October 17, 1884 – Batavia, Ohio, United States: A railroad bridge over the Little Miami River collapses under weight of a passing train, dropping the locomotive, a baggage car and the first coach some forty feet to the ground at the water's edge. The last coach snags on the bridge structure and teeters precariously but passengers in the last car escape harm.
 * January 4, 1887 – Republic, Ohio, United States: A westbound Baltimore & Ohio passenger express train hits a stalled eastbound freight which was supposed to have taken a siding for it to pass, on a bitterly cold night, one half mile west of Republic. The forward cars of the express telescope and then burn completely, the last two sleepers are spared. The exact count of fatalities remains unknown but at least nine victims who perish in the fire are counted.
 * February 5, 1887 – Hartford, Vermont, United States; Worst rail accident in Vermont history when the Central Vermont Montreal Express derails, apparently because of a broken rail, and goes off the White River bridge near White River Junction at 2 a.m. on a bitter winter night. The kerosene lamps and coal heating fires ignite the wooden coaches; 38 are killed and 40 injured.
 * August 17, 1887 – Washington, D.C., United States: Baltimore & Ohio Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Express enters the city from Maryland, out of control. At sixty miles an hour it derails on curve at Terracotta, demolishing several buildings as well as the train set. The engineer had been trying to make up time when he discovered that his brakes had failed. The engineer is killed and many passengers injured.
 * September 9, 1892 – Lander, California, United States: Head-on collision between Southern Pacific passenger train and a freight train of refrigerator cars leaves locomotives stacked up on one another.
 * May 22, 1893 – Glenagalt, Co. Kerry: The Pig Special Disaster. On the Sunday following Easter 1893, a special train was set up taking pig buyers from Tralee to the Annual Dingle Fair. On the fatal return trip, the narrow gauge Hunslet lost its brakes and derailed approaching the Curraduff Viaduct, with the engine and seven loaded pig wagons tumbling down an embankment to the Finglass River below. The engineer, fireman and brakeman were killed, as were approximately 50 pigs. The loaded passenger car derailed but remained on the embankment, while the guard van (and 9 additional passengers) remained on the track. No passengers were killed, but 13 were injured, some seriously.
 * September, 1899 – St. Louis – San Francisco Railway (Frisco) train crashes head-on into another train. A number of deaths.

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