Angola Horror

When

18 Dec 1867

Kind

Rail accident

Coordinates

42.64° N, 79.02° W

Description

1867 train wreck in New York State

Deaths

49

1867 train wreck in New York, US

The Angola Horror was a train wreck that occurred in Angola, New York, on Wednesday, December 18, 1867, just after 3 p.m. The last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore Railway derailed at a bridge, slid down into a gorge, and caught fire, killing 49 people. At the time, it was one of the deadliest train wrecks in American history.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Angola Horror (Buffalo, New York-area train wreck): The fiery death of 49 people leads John D. Rockefeller to develop and sell his Mineral Seal 300 F…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Eisenbahnunfall von Angola im US-Bundesstaat New York kommen 49 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page