The Ashtabula train disaster has many names, the Ashtabula bridge disaster, the Ashtubla Horror or the Ashtabula river railroad disaster.Which ever name you choose they all refer to a terrible derailment that occured in Ashtubla Ohio on December 29, 1876.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_River_railroad_disaster#cite_note-25
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During the last months of the first world war, on June 22, 1918 a horrific accident occured near Hammond Indiana.The 26 cars of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were holding the performers and other circus workers as it chugged ahead to Hammond where the circus had a show.
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