List of rail accidents (1910–1919)

This is a list of rail accidents from 1910 to 1929.

1910

1911

Train wreck on April 29, 1911 in Martin's Creek, New Jersey
Petit Journal issue of 5 December 1911 reporting the 23 November 1911 Montreuil-Bellay, railway accident
  • April 22, 1911 – Cape Colony (now in South Africa) – A mixed train on the Kowie Railway, running from Port Alfred to Grahamstown, derailed on the approach to the Blaauwkrants (now Bloukrans) Bridge, probably due to a wheel defect on a freight car. Four passenger cars fell into a ravine 250 feet (76 m) deep killing thirty people.[9]
  • August 13, 1911 – United States – Fort Wayne, Indiana: The Pennsylvania Railroad's Penn Flyer derailed at Fort Wayne. Almost immediately, the derailed equipment was struck by an oncoming freight train, killing four and injuring 57.
  • August 25, 1911 – United States – A broken rail on a bridge in Rochester, New York resulted in two passenger cars falling over the side killing 28 passengers; a majority of them were Civil War veterans.[13]
  • November 23, 1911 – France – A bridge collapsed under a passenger train at Montreuil-Bellay, killing 22 people.[14]
  • December 13, 1911 – United Kingdom – A freight train ran away near Wombwell, Yorkshire and crashed into wagons being shunted at Darfield Main killing two.[15][16]
  • December 15, 1911 – United Kingdom – A freight train derailed near Lartington Quarry, County Durham when the driver stopped too severely. During recovery operations, a steam crane overturned.[17]

1912

  • January 11, 1912 – United States – Hempstead, New York – A milk train ran into the back of a stationary passenger car at Hempstead (LIRR station) sending it past the end of the line, across Fulton Avenue into the O. L. Schwenke Land & Investment Company Building. One operator and one conductor were killed.[18]
  • January 16, 1912 – United States – Chunky, Mississippi - Alabama & Vicksburg Railway passenger train no. 1 crashed in a creek near Chunky, Mississippi. One person was killed with a few injured. 80 passengers were on board the west-bound train.
  • March 23, 1912 - Canada - At a location named Birch on the Lake Superior Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway, an eastward and a westward freight train collided. The eastward train passed Birch instead of waiting there for the train meet. According to the article, two train crew members died, another was missing and two others were seriously injured.[19]
  • July 5, 1912 – United States – On the Ligonier Valley Railroad, a train order was issued for an excursion train making the 1.5-mile (2.4 km) trip from Ligonier, Pennsylvania to a fairground to wait for a coal train going the other way. The excursion train consisted of a single car being pushed from behind. It proceeded against the order and collided with the coal train, crushing the car between the two locomotives. 19 passengers and 3 crewmen were killed[21]
  • August 29, 1912 – United Kingdom – a light engine collided with a rake of nine carriages at Vauxhall. One passenger was killed and 43 injured.[22]

1913

  • May 11, 1913 – Bulgaria – At Drama, the rear 25 cars of a military train broke free and rolled back towards Buk. The runaway cars crashed into a 28-car train also full of soldiers, killing 150 people and injuring 200.[21]
  • June 25, 1913 – Canada – A train heavily loaded with immigrants derailed near Ottawa killing eight and injuring approximately 50. [27]
  • July 12, 1913 – United Kingdom – A Great Eastern Railway express train ran into the rear of a light engine at Colchester, Essex due to a signalman's error killing three people and injuring fourteen.[28]
  • September 1, 1913 – United Kingdom – Ais Gill rail crash, Cumbria, England: A distracted engine crew passed signals at danger, and crashed into a train stalled on gradient killing fourteen and seriously injuring 38.
  • September 2, 1913 – United States – Due to heavy holiday weekend traffic on the New Haven Railroad, the westbound Bar Harbor Express and White Mountain Express were each running in two sections. A local train ahead of all four expresses stopped at Wallingford, Connecticut, delaying the expresses, but the overtired engineer of the third express missed his signal and crashed into the one ahead killing 26.[31]
  • September 1913 – France – A 3-car electric train derailed on a viaduct at Villeneuve-Loubet and at least one car crashed into the ravine, killing 20 people and injuring 40. News reports blame "the imperfect working of the magnetic brake because of a storm", though this seems to make no sense.[31]
  • November 4, 1913 – France – On the PLM Railway, the driver of a southbound mail train from Paris missed seeing two signals. At Melun, the train entered a side track by crossing over the northbound main line, and collided with a northbound express from Marseille killing 39 deaths, including 15 postal workers.[36]
  • December 6, 1913 – Romania – One hundred people are killed by a collision at Costești.[37]

1914

  • March 13, 1914 – Australia – Exeter crossing loop collision, New South Wales. A freight train entering the Exeter station collided head-on with a mail train being removed from the track in anticipation of the arrival of the freight train. Fourteen people were killed in the accident.
  • April 2, 1914 – Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) – At Tanjong-Prioh, a passenger train is derailed by a buffalo on the track; it damages a bridge, which collapses, and the locomotive and first 5 cars go into the river, killing 20 people and injuring 50. The "European" passengers on the train are all in the rear cars and are unhurt.[37]
  • April 14, 1914 – United Kingdom – A North British Railway express passenger train collides with a freight train at Burntisland, Fife due to a signalman's error.[38]
  • June 17, 1914 – United Kingdom – An excursion train departs from Reading station, Berkshire against signals. An express passenger train is in a sidelong collision with it, killing one person.[39]
  • June 18, 1914 – United Kingdom – Baddengorm Burn, Carr Bridge, Scotland: Cloudburst washed away the foundations of a bridge, which collapsed as a passenger train crossed it. The train split in two, with one coach falling into the burn, drowning 5 people. [40]
  • June 27, 1914 – United Kingdom – A South Eastern and Chatham Railway passenger train departs from Cannon Street station, London against a danger signal and collides with another train. One person is killed.[34]
  • August 5, 1914 – United States – At Tipton Ford, Missouri, on the Kansas City Southern Railway, a train order is issued for a northbound Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad gasoline motor car to stop and wait for a southbound KCS passenger train. The motor car proceeds and collides head-on with the train at a combined speed of 70 mph (110 km/h), and is enveloped in flames from the gasoline. There are 38 passengers and 5 employees killed, many burnt beyond recognition, and 34 passengers and 4 employees are injured.[37]
  • September 18, 1914 – United States – Lebanon, Missouri: A train on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway is derailed by a washout, killing 27 people.[41]
  • December 1914 – Austria-Hungary – At Kalush (now in Ukraine), two Austrian troop trains collide, one carrying troops from Prussia and the other carrying wounded officers from the Eastern Front, after a switch is thrown at the last moment. More than 20 cars are smashed, about 400 people killed and 500 injured. Several railwaymen are arrested for treason.[41][42]

1915

Train wreck-Fairfield Connecticut 1915
  • January 1, 1915 – United Kingdom – Ilford rail crash: The 7:06 express from Clacton to London passed both distant and home signals. The express crashed into the side of a local train that had been crossing the tracks. 10 killed, 500 injured (including those reporting shock).
  • March 18, 1915 – United Kingdom – A Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway express passenger train overruns signals and is in a rear-end collision with an empty stock train at Smithy Bridge, Lancashire. Four people are killed and 33 are injured.[43]
  • May 22, 1915 – United Kingdom – In the Quintinshill rail crash near Gretna Green, Scotland, a troop train collides with a stationary passenger train and another passenger train crashes into the wreckage, which also involves two stationary freight trains. The passenger cars are wooden-bodied and a serious fire ensues. The stationary passenger train was forgotten by a careless signalman, who had himself arrived on it, following improper operating practices during a shift change at this busy location. This is the deadliest railway accident in British history, with 226 fatalities and 246 people injured.
  • August 14, 1915 – United Kingdom – Weedon rail crash: Express train derails after the track on the up main line is forced out of alignment by a detached coupling rod from a passing locomotive heading a down express. 10 passengers killed, 21 injured.
  • October 19, 1915 – France – At Saint-Cyr-de-Favières, on the PLM railway, between Roanne and Lyon, several coaches of a derailed train fall into a deep ravine with heavy loss of life.[44]
  • December 15, 1915 – United Kingdom – A landslide near Warren Halt, Kent buries three people. A South Eastern and Chatham Railway train is derailed inside Martello Tunnel. The line is closed until 1 August 1919.[45]
  • December 17, 1915 – United Kingdom – St Bedes Junction rail crash: Passenger train collides with banking engine in thick fog, 19 killed.

1916

  • January 30, 1916 – Germany – Between Cologne and Duisburg, a hospital train full of wounded soldiers collides with an express, and one of the locomotives climbs on top of the other train. Officially only two people are killed, but reports of eyewitnesses arriving in Amsterdam disagree.[44]
  • February 2, 1916 – United Kingdom – The Penistone Viaduct in Derbyshire collapses under a Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway freight train due to subsidence.[46]
New Haven Railroad accident on February 22, 1916
  • February 22, 1916– United States – Milford, Connecticut: New Haven Railroad. Nine are killed.[47][48]
  • March 29, 1916 – United States – Amherst, Ohio: An overnight New York Central Railroad express eastbound from Chicago to Pittsburgh is operating in two sections; when the first is stopped by a signal, the second one runs into it at 50 mph (80 km/h), the wreckage fouls the next track, and the westbound 20th Century Limited, also at 50 mph, runs into it. 26 people aboard the eastbound trains are killed. It is disputed whether the signal was set against the second section.[44]
  • April 3, 1916 – United Kingdom – A London Brighton and South Coast Railway passenger train is derailed between Crowborough & Jarvis Brook and Buxted, East Sussex.[49]
  • June 2, 1916 - United States - Dayton Township, Butler County, Iowa: Rock Island Railroad passenger train No. 19 crashes at Flood Creek after bridge collapses. The normally shallow creek sustained significant rain the day of the crash, and the flooded creek caused the supports on the bridge to break. On the stormy night of June 2, 1916, as train No. 19 passed through Packard, and crossed Flood Creek on the bridge, the locomotive, tender, and several passenger cars made it across before the bridge collapsed on the rest of the train causing the immediate deaths of 16, and later the death of another passenger from his injuries. According to lifelong Clarksville resident, Francis Edeker, on the night of the crash, survivors of the crash on one side of the creek sought shelter at Francis's grandparents house where the survivors were treated for injuries.[50]
  • August 12, 1916 – United States – Brookdale, Pennsylvania: A runaway train collides with an interurban on the Southern Cambria Railway, killing 26 people.[44]
  • December 1, 1916 – Austria-Hungary – At Herczechalen (now Herceghalom, Hungary), an express from Vienna to Budapest, carrying many soldiers back from the funeral of Emperor Franz Joseph I, collides with a local train, killing 66 people and injuring 150. It is suggested that a signal was missed in the dark because of the inferior fuel available in wartime for the oil-burning signal lamps.[51]
  • December 19, 1916 – United Kingdom – At Kiltimagh, Ireland, on the Great Southern and Western Railway, the driver of a train of 21 wagons loaded with ballast either misses or misreads a danger signal and crashes into a train of empty wagons, killing five railwaymen and injuring seven.[52]
  • December 19, 1916 – United Kingdom – At Wigan, England, on the London and North Western Railway, the 11:15 pm train from London catches up with the late-running 10:00 pm train from London while the latter is reversing into a bay platform. The second train has two engines, but the first driver apparently misses seeing the signals against him while the second one is unable to see them due to smoke and steam from the first engine. The trains collide, killing a crewman and a postal worker, and injuring eleven people, mostly crew and postal workers.[51][53]
  • December 19, 1916 – United Kingdom – On the Caledonian Railway, a northbound postal train collides with a slower-moving goods train between Kirkpatrick and Kirtlebridge, Scotland, despite signals and detonators that should have stopped the second train at Kirkpatrick. One railwayman is killed and one seriously injured.[51][54]

1917

  • January 3, 1917 – United Kingdom – Ratho rail crash: The unsafe use of hand signals results in 12 deaths.
  • January 13, 1917 – Romania – Ciurea rail disaster at Ciurea: A passenger train overloaded with soldiers and refugees runs away down a bank between Bârnova and Ciurea, derailing at Ciurea station after being diverted onto a loop line. Between 600 and 1,000 killed in the derailment and subsequent fire.
  • January 17, 1917 – France – Massy – Palaiseau: A British troop train of 40 (presumably unbraked) cars, taking soldiers from Paris back to the front, comes apart into two portions, which then collide back together on a gradient; 10 people are killed and 30 injured.[51]
  • January 19, 1917 – Austria-Hungary – At Sagor (now Zagorje ob Savi, Slovenia), a mail train from Trieste to Vienna is wrecked by a rockslide, part buried and part falling into the Sava River. A rescue train is sent but collides with the wreckage. Altogether, 40 people are killed.[55]
  • February 27, 1917 – United States – Mount Union, Pennsylvania: A passenger train is rear-ended by a freight causing a telescope to occur. Twenty are killed in the accident.[56]
  • July 2, 1917 – United States – The Milwaukee Railroad's coast train, the Olympia, derailed across the river from LaCrosse, Wisconsin when the engineer A. B. Brown ignored the closed semaphore signal. The engine and tender and four cars were damaged.[57]
  • July 23, 1917 – British India – When a passenger train is stopped by track damage, a messenger is sent to bring a repair crew, but then it proves possible to repair the track. The train resumes its journey and collides with the repair train, killing 20 people.[55]
  • August 7, 1917 – Italy – An express from Genoa to Milan derails in Arquata Scrivia station, killing 34 people and injuring about 100.[55]
  • August 13, 1917 – Russia – A passenger train and a "luggage train" collide on the line from Moscow to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), killing 60 people and injuring 150.[58]
  • September 15, 1917 – United Kingdom – Ten carriages carrying troops run away at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire and crash near Catterick Bridge. Three soldiers are killed.[59]
  • September 24, 1917 – United Kingdom – Bere Ferrers rail accident: New Zealander troops traveling from Plymouth on the London and South Western Railway are told that two from each compartment should get off at the first stop, Exeter, to get food. The train is stopped by signals at Bere Ferrers. With the rear cars stopped outside the station, men in them assume this is Exeter and jump to ground level—using the same doors they boarded through, which puts them on the other track, where 10 are killed by an express from London to Plymouth.[60]
  • September 28, 1917 – United States – Kellyville, Oklahoma: Two trains on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway collide due to a violation of train orders; 23 people and many cattle are killed, and 80 people injured.[58]
  • November 2, 1917 – Russia – Vladikavkaz: An express passenger train and a military train collide head-on, killing 25 people (mostly soldiers) and severely injuring 70.[58]
  • December 12, 1917 – France – Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne derailment, (Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne near Modane on the Culoz–Modane railway): Carrying French troops from Italy, a grossly overloaded military train derails near the entrance of the station at Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, after running away down a steep gradient from the entrance of the Fréjus Tunnel; brake power was insufficient for the weight of the train. 425 killed in the derailment and subsequent fire, 423 soldiers and 2 train employees. The military had forced the driver to run the overloaded train. This accident was the worst ever in France.[61]
  • December 14, 1917 – United States – Two Southern Railway passenger trains collide at 0815 hrs. near Clemson College, South Carolina with the fireman and baggageman on one (train no. 46) killed, both engines demolished and cars leaving the rails and one overturning down an embankment. Train Nos. 43 and 46 strike each other on a curve, one mile north of Calhoun, South Carolina. Blame was laid on an operator's failure to give orders to the crew of Train No. 46 at Seneca, South Carolina.[62]
  • December 20, 1917 – United States – Shepherdsville train wreck, a rear-end collision in Shepherdsville, Kentucky kills 49 people.
  • December 29, 1917 - United States - Two Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger trains collide a mile east of North Vernon, Indiana, killing eight people and injuring 21. The trains met in a head-on collision about a mile east of North Vernon, each emerging from a curve with only about 500 feet of straight track between them.[63]

1918

  • January 8, 1918 – Germany – A train carrying troops going on leave collides with another train between Kaiserslautern and Homburg, killing at least 30 and injuring at least 100.[64]
  • January 14, 1918 – United States – A Houston and Texas Central Railway passenger train derails at Hammond, Texas. 17 killed, 10 injured.
  • January 16, 1918 – Germany – At Kirn, a flash flood in the river Nahe caused by a dam failure washes out an embankment, and several cars of a train go into the water. Only 10 bodies are found in the first few days, but eventually the death toll is reported as 25, with 25 injured.[64]
  • January 16, 1918 – Germany – At Bohmte on the line between Bremen and Osnabrück, two trains collide in a snowstorm; 33 are killed and 110 injured, all soldiers.[64]
  • January 18, 1918 – Germany – At Argeningkem in East Prussia, south of Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia), a train carrying soldiers on leave collides with a passenger train, killing 23 people and injuring 50.[64]
  • January 18, 1918 – United Kingdom – Two Cambrian Railways freight trains were in a head-on collision at Parkhall, Shropshire due to irregular operation of tablet instruments by signalmen at Oswestry North and Ellesmere Junction signal boxes. The design of the circuitry connecting the instruments and the weather were contributory factors.[65]
  • February 7, 1918 – Austria-Hungary – A fire on board a crowded train from Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) to Lvov (now Lviv) brings it to a stop at midnight on a bridge between Jezupol and Wodniki (now Yezupil and Vodnyky; all these places are now in Ukraine). Many people are killed, including passengers who jump into the Dniester River and drown.[64]
  • March 15, 1918 - United States - Two women passengers are killed and 30-40 others receive cuts and bruises when WB train No. 19 of the Pennsylvania Railroad is struck by a rock slide in a cut near Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, with a large boulder overturning two Pullman cars in the middle of the consist.[66]
  • April 11, 1918, – France – Twenty-nine men of the 4th Battalion Kings (Liverpool Regiment) killed in a troop train explosion. They were buried in the military cemetery at Chocques in the Pas de Calais.[67]
  • April 15, 1918, – United States – Central Islip, New York (now Islandia, New York) – Long Island Rail Road troop train leaving Camp Upton derails at Foot's Crossing (now the NY 454 bridge). Originally believed to be a result of enemy sabotage, but later found to be caused by defective rails. 3 soldiers dead and 36 soldiers injured.[18]
  • April 18, 1918 – United Kingdom – A London Brighton and South Coast Railway freight train becomes divided with the result that four wagons come to rest in Redhill Tunnel, Surrey. A signalman's error allows the following train to crash into the wagons. The line is blocked for two days.[59]
  • May 9. 1918 - United States - A trainman is killed and several passengers injured late this date when the railway post office car and one coach of a St. Louis–San Francisco Railway passenger train derails near Heburn, Oklahoma.[68]
  • May 10, 1918 - United States - As a troop train carrying the advance guard of the 321st Infantry departs Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, for Camp Sevier, near Greenville, a broken wheel under one coach, wooden, causes it to derail at ~1000 hrs. and drops the car from a high trestle near the camp, and pulls the second coach, steel, with it. Seven soldiers are killed immediately and ten others seriously injured, three of whom are not expected to live.[69][70]
  • June 5, 1918 - United States - Due to a claimed mistake in train orders, a local passenger train collides head on into the engine of a work train in a tunnel on the Central Vermont Railroad, between Burlington and Winooski, killing five and injuring several others. Seven are removed to hospital but no passengers are killed.[71]
Hammond Circus train wreck
The Great train wreck of 1918 near Nashville, Tennessee.
  • July 9, 1918 – United States – Great train wreck of 1918, Nashville, Tennessee: Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway trains collide head-on. 101 killed, 171 injured at Shops Junction-West Nashville, Tennessee.
  • July 16, 1918 – France – A Paris-Orléans railway train derails at Theillay, killing 22 people and injuring 76.[72]
  • July 31, 1918 – Germany – Two trains collide between Schneidemühl and Landsberg (now Piła and Górowo Iławeckie, both in Poland); 30 people are killed. A crowd of looters forms and several are arrested.[73]
  • August 8, 1918 – France – German ammunition train entering Harbonnières station is shelled by advancing British Mark V tanks. The train explodes; a following troop train on an adjacent track is stopped and captured by British troops.[74]
  • August 11, 1918 – United Kingdom – A fire at the North Eastern Railway carriage sheds at Heaton, Northumberland destroys 34 vehicles. They are all replaced by new vehicles with identical running numbers.[75]
  • August 1918 – Austrian-occupied territory in Italy – Two trains taking soldiers on leave collide at Uggowitz (now Uggovizza or Ukve) on the line between Villach and Pemtaffl; 20 people are killed and 80 injured.[76]
  • September 11, 1918 – Germany – At Schneidemühl (now Piła, Poland), a goods train collides with a children's excursion; 33 children and 2 railwaymen are killed, and 17 people injured.[76]
Weesp, Netherlands.
  • September 13, 1918 – Netherlands – Weesp train disaster, Weesp, Netherlands. Heavy rainfall caused the embankment leading to the Merwedekanaal bridge to become unstable. When a passenger train approached the bridge the track slid off the embankment, causing the carriages to crash into each other and the locomotive to hit the bridge. 41 persons were killed and 42 injured. In the aftermath of the disaster, it was decided to establish a dedicated study of soil mechanics at the Delft University of Technology.
  • September 19, 1918 – France – On the PLM railway, three cars break away from the rear of a train; the resulting collision in the Pacy Tunnel kills about 30 people and injures about 100.[76]
  • September 23, 1918 – Germany – A train from Leipzig crashes into the back of one from Berlin; 30 people are killed and 59 injured, 30 of them seriously.[77]
Getå Railroad Disaster October 1918.
The Malbone wreck train, November 1, 1918
  • October 1, 1918 – Sweden – Getå Railroad Disaster: A mixed train from Malmö to Stockholm is derailed at about 70 km/h (43 mph) when heavy rain causes an embankment to collapse, and the crashed cars burn. At least 42 people are killed and 41 injured.[77]
  • October 2, 1918 - United States - A burning trestle over Cox creek, two miles north of Arcadia, Kansas caused the wrecking of Frisco Passenger train No. 101 at about 5 PM. Engineer A.F. McCullough and Fireman Charles Mahan remained at their posts trying to stop the train. McCullough and Mahan lost their lives but saved all others on board. The engine and coal tender collapsed the weakened bridge burying McCullough and Mahan in their cabs. The passengers escaped from their coaches before the entire train was consumed by fire.[78]
  • October 12, 1918 – Spain – Two passenger trains collide at Selerra after a switch is set wrongly; 67 are killed and 25 seriously injured.[77]
  • November 1, 1918 – United States – The Malbone Street Wreck occurs on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) in New York City when an inexperienced motorman (pressed into service due to a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) drives one of the system's subway trains too quickly into a very sharp curve, derailing the train in a tunnel, killing at least 93 and injuring over 100.
  • November 6, 1918 – Austria-Hungary – A broken axle derails a troop train between Steinbruch (now Kőbánya) and Rákos, both near Budapest, now in Hungary; 60 are killed and 180 injured.[79]
  • December 7, 1918 – France – A collision at Lothiers, south of Châteauroux on the Paris-Orléans railway, kills 68 people and injures 151.[79]
  • Late 1918 – Belgium – Between Namur and Liège, a train passes through a tunnel where Scottish soldiers, riding on the roof, are hit by scaffolding and 17 are killed.[55]

1919

  • January 12, 1919 – United States – Genesee County, New York. The New York Central Southwestern Limited rammed the back of the Wolverine at South Byron. A Pullman sleeping car was pushed upward and fell on top of another Pullman sleeper, killing 22 people.[80]
  • January 22, 1919 – France – At Mauvages, between Neufchâteau and Toul on the Chemins de fer de l'Est, a collision kills 20 and injures 40.[79]
  • February 16(?), 1919 – Belgian Congo – At Kambove, now in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a freight wagon full of explosives explodes. There are 27 deaths, including everyone on the train.[79]
  • April 17, 1919 – France – At Crissé on the Chemins de fer de l'État, a train carrying French soldiers on leave stops due to engine trouble. Although detonators are put down to protect it, the following train, taking American soldiers to Brest to return home, is going too fast downhill and is unable to stop. The collision kills 33 people, many of them Americans.[81]
  • May 5, 1919 – United Kingdom – A South Eastern and Chatham Railway freight train is in a rear-end collision with another at Paddock Wood, Kent due to driver error.[82]
  • June 19, 1919 – British India – At Firozabad, the wrong tablet is issued to goods train 127, which proceeds onto the single-track section to Makkhanpur instead of waiting for passenger train 7. The collision kills all four enginemen and fifteen passengers, and starts a fire that kills many more, perhaps 100 to 300 deaths altogether.[81]
  • June 29, 1919 – British India – A mail train from Delhi collides with a freight train at Rohtak; 35 are killed and 46 injured.[81]
  • August 14, 1919 – United States – near Parkersburg, West Virginia. A Baltimore & Ohio Railroad switching engine collided with a streetcar operated by the Parkersburg Interurban Trolley System carrying a number of women and children from Marietta and Reno, Ohio on a church picnic. Fifteen people were killed by scalding when the steam lines ruptured and twenty-three more were injured. One witness died from apoplexy after witnessing the tragedy.[83]
  • September 1, 1919 – United States – Hubbard Woods crossing, Chicago, Illinois. A Chicago & Northwestern passenger train strikes Mary Tanner, a pedestrian whose shoe was caught on the rail while crossing the tracks, killing her. The impact also killed her husband William Fitch Tanner and grievously injured John Miller, a railroad flagman, when they refused to give up trying to free her.[84]
  • September 4, 1919 – France – A train from Paris to Toulouse stops between Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds and Saint-Jory due to bad coal. It is struck in the rear by the following train from Bordeaux to Cette (now Sète), killing 15 people and injuring 40.[81]
  • October 5, 1919 – Mexico – A train from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City derails, killing 60 people.[81]
  • October 16, 1919 – United States – Marlboro, New Jersey. On the Freehold-Atlantic Highlands branch of the Central of New Jersey Railroad. Locomotive and Baggage car leave track. Train struck a truck at a grade crossing 300 yards west of the Marlboro NJ station. The train overturned with tracks torn off, the engine lay on its side. The forward cars were torn loose and were turned at right angles. Resulted in one death as the engineer, Michael Mooney was scalded to death.[85]
  • October 25, 1919 – Germany – At Kranowitz (now Krzanowice, Poland), a passenger and freight train collide and catch fire. There are 25 deaths. The site is near the German border with Austria-Hungary (now the Polish border with the Czech Republic) and reportedly most of the victims were alcohol smugglers, who may have fed the flames by trying to dump the evidence.[81]
  • November 1, 1919 – Denmark – Vigerslev train crash, Denmark: An express train collided at speed with a stopped train due to a dispatcher error. 40 people were killed and about 60 injured.
  • November 1, 1919 – France – At Pont-sur-Yonne on the PLM railway, the Simplon Express is stopped by signals, but a Paris-Geneva express overruns its signals and crashes into the first train's rear. The number of deaths is variously reported as 18 or 26, the injured as 42 to 60.[86]
  • November 1919 – Passengers remembering the September 4 and November 1 accidents in France become fearful when their train from Juvisy to Paris is stopped for some time. Some of them decide to get out—and stand on the other track, where four are killed by another train.[86]
  • December 10, 1919 – Anatolia – An Ottoman Railway train collides with another train at a junction; 35 are killed or injured.[86]
  • December 20, 1919 – United States – Onawa train wreck, Maine. A Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train running across Maine between Canadian cities collides head-on with a freight train, killing 23.
  • December 22, 1919 – United States – Near Topeka, Kansas. Engineer David E. Hartigan, Sr., 23 years as an engineer for the Rock Island Railroad, was returning to St. Joseph, Missouri from Topeka, Kansas with a train load of Christmas shoppers, some even standing in the aisles. Every seat in the eight coaches was occupied. A freight train was accidentally sent on a collision course with the passenger train and they met near Elmont, Kansas. Hartigan stuck to his cab, applying the brake until the collision. He was scalded to death. His sacrifice possibly saved 200 persons from death or injury. Forty people were slightly injured. No one was killed.[87]

See also

References

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