San Salvador railway accident

In the railway accident in San Salvador exploded on March 16, 1934 in San Salvador 's capital, El Salvador , seven tons of dynamite , which were transported by train. The subsequent fire spread to a fuel store. 250 people died, around 1,000 were injured and hundreds of houses were destroyed.

literature

• Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 89.