The Great Train Wreck of 1856 killed dozens of children and was the deadliest railroad catastrophe in the world up to that time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Wreck_of_1856Posted Mar 29, 2018, 3:08 PM UTC
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Posted Mar 29, 2018, 3:08 PM UTC
i drive past this site daily. sobering to know what happened there.
Where's the exact site? Is there a marker?
Wikipedia has coordinates in the top right of the article
Oh cool. It doesn't show up on mobile, and it's tiny on the desktop site. Thanks.
I wonder if there was a literal witch hunt to kill the conductor instead of the modern day figurative one from the Amtrak crash...
He killed himself with arsenic when he got home, so I'm sure the pressure was on.