Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tracks beyond. But the second locomotive and the whole train behind piled up in the ditch. Eleven of the wooden cars telescoped or were splintered to matchwood. There was no fire, but when rescuers from Chatsworth reached the spot they found 81 dead, 372 injured -Illinois' worst railroad wreck...
...tiny Chatsworth (pop. 1,100) held a memorial service in the Village Park. Seventy-nve-year-old Louis Joseph Haberkorn, one of the first to reach the scene, presided, introduced nine survivors. Service ended with singing of the ballad The Bridge Was Burned at Chatsworth, written shortly after the wreck by one T. P. Westendorf, whose initials are the same as the unlucky railroad's. Excerpt...
...dreadful wreck of cars...
Juan Trippe's triumphal day was somewhat marred by the wreck of a Pan American-Grace Airways transport which occurred in the sea off Panama four days earlier, snuffing out 14 lives (TIME, Aug. 9). Pan American spokesmen hastened to point out that the wrecked plane was not one of the famed Clippers, which are flying boats, but an amphibian; and that Pan American and Pan American-Grace are separate airlines, although P.A.A.owns 50% of P.A.G. stock. P.A.A.'s safety record with its Clippers is almost perfect: only three deaths are charged against it. That accident occurred last...
...bearing scores of vacationing schoolchildren and pilgrims returning to southern France from Lisieux. Nine miles south of the capital, the locomotive leaped off the track, dragging the forward coaches with it. Twenty-five dead and 50 injured were taken from the jumbled mass of wreckage. Railway officials ascribed the wreck to an "error in switching...