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This Day In Wrecks

1884: The City of Columbus runs aground on Devil’s Bridge Reef near Gay Head, MA, drowning 103 of her 132 passengers and crew.

1960:  The engines on a Vickers Viscount fail in icing conditions, and Capital Airlines Flight 20 crashes in Holdcroft, VA.  All 50 on board perish.

1977:  A commuter train derails in Granville, New South Wales, and knocks out the supports of a road bridge.  The bridge and the cars traveling on it collapse onto the train, killing 83 people in Australia’s worst rail disaster. (pictured)