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Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads

Angola Horror: The 1867 Train Wreck That Shocked the Nation and Transformed American Railroads

Vogel, Charity

Hardcover

Trains19th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0801449081
ISBN13: 9780801449086
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2013
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.49
Language: English

On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying--and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the Angola Horror, one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history.

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