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The Angola horror : the 1867 train wreck that shocked the nation and transformed American railroads / Charity Vogel.
"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."-- excerpted from publisher's web site.
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- ISBN: 9780801449086 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0801449081 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-282) and index. |
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