Ohio Train Disasters

In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozentrain accidents stand out as the most horrific.

In the bitter cold, just afterChristmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid waterbelow.

The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killedby the fall.

Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-onDoodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a trainwreck near Dresden in 1912.

Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hotstories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews whofaced death and destruction on Ohio's rails.