McDonough Railway Accident

In the McDonough railway accident on June 23, 1900, a train fell off a bridge. At least 35 people died.

the accident

The stone arch bridge on a railway line of the Southern Railway in Georgia , USA , near the town of McDonough , over a river had been washed out. A construction train manned by workers who were supposed to carry out repairs elsewhere fell 20 meters as it drove over the bridge. In the crash, the falling vehicles wedged themselves in the bridge rubble and burned out.

See also

• List of rail accidents in the United States

Remarks

1. ↑ Since the exact site of the accident is not given in the sources, the coordinates of McDonough train station are given here.
2. ↑ The English Wikipedia states that 39 of the 49 people on the train died in the accident when a passenger train from Macon to Atlanta suffered the accident.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 21.

Coordinates: 33 ° 26 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 84 ° 8 ′ 55.1 ″  W.