1906 Washington DC train wreck

Quand

30 déc. 1906

Type

Accident ferroviaire

Coordonnées

38.95° N, 77.00° W

Description

train wreck

Deaths

53

Train wreck at Terra Cotta Station

The 1906 Washington, D.C. train wreck occurred on the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) at Terra Cotta station in Washington, D.C., on December 30, 1906, at 6:31 in the evening, when a locomotive pulling six empty cars crashed into the back of a passenger train in dense fog, killing 53 people and injuring more than 70.

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