Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1913 — Record British Railroad Disaster. [ARTICLE]

Record British Railroad Disaster.

The two worst railway disasters which ever occurred In the United Kingdom were the Tay Bridge disaster on December 28, 1879, when 74 lives were lost through the train and bridge being wrecked a terrific storm, and the Armagh disaster on June 12, 1889, when two excursion trains collided at Killooney, resulting In 80 deaths and Injuries to 400 other passengers. In the latter case the officials were charged with negligence. The Abergele disaster in 1867, on the L. & N. W. R. R., when the Irish mall collided with petroleum trucks and 33 people were killed; the accident at Shipton, near Oxford, in 1874, when a G. W. R. R. train ran over an embankment, resulting in 34 deaths and 70 injured; and the mbre recent Salisbury, Shrewsbury and Elliot Junction disasters are also among the worst this country has experienced. London Mail.