Ebook: Ohio Train Disasters

In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen
train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after
Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water
below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed
by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on
Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train
wreck near Dresden in 1912. Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hot
stories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews who
faced death and destruction on Ohio’s rails.