What the records say
- When
- 4 Oct 1926
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 47.25° N, 9.06° E
- Description
- train stalled in Swiss tunnel, 1926
- Deaths
- 9
Ricken Tunnel railway accident
Railway accident
The Ricken Tunnel railway accident killed six crew members of a freight train and three rescuers on October 4, 1926, through carbon monoxide poisoning in the Ricken Tunnel between Kaltbrunn and Wattwil in the Swiss Alps.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Eisenbahnunfall im Rickentunnel sterben neun Menschen an einer Kohlenmonoxidvergiftung”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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