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Collapse of steel rail bridge over the Ashtabula River in Ohio on 29 December 1876. The bridge failure was caused by design flaws - the truss members merely rested upon each other instead of being bolted together.

Resources in This Category

• Ashtabula Rail Bridge, 1876

  http://home.windstream.net/arhf/
  Collapse of iron and mortar railway bridge. Detailed account, historical notes, enquiry findings and before/after photographs.

• Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss: Ashtabula Bridge Disaster

  http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biobliss5.html
  Newspaper and eye-witness accounts of the Ashtabula, Ohio, railroad train wreck disaster.

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