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Ashtabula River railroad disaster
The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror or the Ashtabula Bridge disaster or the Ashtabula train disaster) was a derailment caused by the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River about from the railroad station at Ashtabula, in far northeastern Ohio. On December 29, 1876, at about 7:30 pm, two locomotives hauling 11 railcars of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway carrying 159 passengers plunged into the river in deep snow when the bridge gave way beneath them. The wooden cars were set alight by their heating stoves, but no attempt was made to extinguish the fire. The accident killed 92 people, including the gospel singer and hymn-writer Philip Bliss and his wife, and was the worst rail accident in the U.S. until the Great Train Wreck of 1918.
The coroner's report found that the bridge, designed by the railroad company president, had been improperly designed and inadequately inspected. As a result of the accident a hospital was built in the town and a federal system set up to formally investigate fatal railroad accidents.
==Bridge collapse and fire==
The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, ''The Pacific Express'', left Erie, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of December 29, 1876 in deep snow.〔 Two locomotives, "Socrates" and "Columbia", were hauling 11 railcars, including two express cars, two baggage cars, one smoking car, three coaches, and three sleeping cars that carried 159 passengers.〔 At about 7:30 pm〔Coroner's Jury's findings, (quoted ) at ''Ashtabula Bridge Disaster'' website. Retrieved October 31, 2012〕 the train was crossing over the Ashtabula River about 〔Ashtabula County Archives, (quoted ) at ''Ashtabula Bridge Disaster'' website. Retrieved October 31, 2012〕 from the railroad station at Ashtabula, Ohio when the bridge gave way beneath it. The lead locomotive made it across the bridge, while the second locomotive and the rest of the train plunged into the water. Some cars landed in an upright position. The wooden cars were set alight by the heating stoves and lamps and soon small, localized fires became an inferno.
Of 159 passengers and crew on board that night, 92 were killed or died later from injuries;〔LS&MS Railway 1877 Corporate Stockholder Report, (quoted ) at ''Ashtabula Bridge Disaster'' website. Retrieved October 31, 2012〕 they included the gospel singer and hymn-writer Philip Bliss and his wife. Forty-eight of the fatalities were unrecognizable or consumed in the flames. Sixty-four people were injured.〔
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