Talk:List of rail accidents (1900–1909)

Two similar accidents in 1909
The accidents of
 * 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 …

sound extremely similar. Same incident, wrong place / date? Anybody who can prove the correctness of the (source less) information? -- Reinhard Dietrich (talk) 13:17, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Possible Addition
The rail accident documented here should probably be added. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/12/21_christmas_travelers_were_ki.html I am no rail history expert, so I will let someone more knowledgeable decide if it should be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.56.72 (talk) 00:49, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

US or Germany?
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.'' -- Reinhard Dietrich (talk) 18:41, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hoboken Terminal used to have ports for steamships to Germany at one time, so it's not inconceivable that you'd find passengers returning to Bremen at the time of the wreck. -User:DanTD (talk) 11:54, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Chile or Argentina?
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? -- Reinhard Dietrich (talk) 19:53, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Unreferenced items removed
The following entries were removed as they were unreferenced. Feel free to reference and re-add them. Mjroots (talk) 05:27, 28 May 2014 (UTC)


 * 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 3:52 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.
 * August 13, 1900 – Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Baltimore & Ohio 2-8-2 Mikado locomotive and tender are knocked off the Carrollton Viaduct at Gwynns Falls by a side-strike and land inverted in the stream below.
 * 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.


 * February 9, 1904 – Sand Point, Ontario head-on collision; 13 killed & 19 injured.
 * September 21, 1906 – Napanee, Ontario, Canada: A Grand Trunk Railway passenger 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.
 * 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, injuring 47 passengers.
 * April 21, 1909 – Cardiff, Wales: Fitter incorrectly assembles locomotive's safety valves. Boiler explodes in shed, killing three.
 * June 19, 1909 – Burns Harbor, 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. 12 were killed, 52 injured.
 * 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 ft into the stream below. Nearly 30 people are killed and dozens more injured in the wreck.
 * July 5, 1912 – Between Ligonier and Wilpen in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States: A passenger coach being pushed by a locomotive collides with an oncoming freight train, killing 26 on the Ligonier Valley Railroad.
 * 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 2:38 pm. All-steel cars on both trains are credited with the low mortality.
 * November 7, 1916 – Boston, Massachusetts: A crowded passenger car of the Boston Elevated Street Railway plunges through an open drawbridge into Fort Point Channel, just outside the South Station terminal. Fifty are killed.
 * 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.
 * December 5, 1921 – Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania: on the Reading Railroad's Newtown Line at the Bryn Athyn Cut, a head-on collision between two passenger trains killed 27 and injured 70.
 * 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.
 * August 5, 1922 – Sulphur Springs, Missouri. Two trains collide on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway tracks with 34 people killed and 150 injured in the largest train accident in Missouri history.
 * 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 40 mi/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.
 * - Aberdeen, NSW - train derailed on washaway.
 * 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."
 * August 24, 1928 – New York, New York: A subway train crashes at the Times Square – 42nd Street station, killing 16 in the second worst accident in New York City Subway history.
 * 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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June 6, 1911; Fairfield, Connecticut
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. -User:DanTD (talk) 00:47, 25 July 2017 (UTC)


 * You're an experienced editor, so it's surprising that you think it's acceptable to add an unreferenced entry, forcing other editors to locate and add a reference. Akld guy (talk) 01:19, 25 July 2017 (UTC)


 * 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. -User:DanTD (talk) 01:22, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

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