Edward was leaving on the 10:20 express to New York with two friends, William Towner and J. Alexander Martin, all young professionals from Erie, PA.
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happened to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
William W Towner
BIRTH 1842 New York, USA
DEATH 18 Dec 1867 (aged 24–25)
BURIAL Erie Cemetery
Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA
MEMORIAL ID 6798815 ·
Note: Edward's middle initial is T. according to this article.
William W. Towner, 25, a surveyor from Erie, Pa., had decided to treat himself to a pleasure trip in advance of the holiday. He was leaving on the 10:20 express to New York with two friends, J. Alexander Martin and Edward T. Metcalf, both young professionals from Erie.
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
Contributor: Jane Riggs Curci (46846403)
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happened to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
William W Towner
BIRTH 1842 New York, USA
DEATH 18 Dec 1867 (aged 24–25)
BURIAL Erie Cemetery
Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA
MEMORIAL ID 6798815 ·
Note: Edward's middle initial is T. according to this article.
William W. Towner, 25, a surveyor from Erie, Pa., had decided to treat himself to a pleasure trip in advance of the holiday. He was leaving on the 10:20 express to New York with two friends, J. Alexander Martin and Edward T. Metcalf, both young professionals from Erie.
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
Contributor: Jane Riggs Curci (46846403)
Edward was leaving on the 10:20 express to New York with two friends, William Towner and J. Alexander Martin, all young professionals from Erie, PA.
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happened to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
William W Towner
BIRTH 1842 New York, USA
DEATH 18 Dec 1867 (aged 24–25)
BURIAL Erie Cemetery
Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA
MEMORIAL ID 6798815 ·
Note: Edward's middle initial is T. according to this article.
William W. Towner, 25, a surveyor from Erie, Pa., had decided to treat himself to a pleasure trip in advance of the holiday. He was leaving on the 10:20 express to New York with two friends, J. Alexander Martin and Edward T. Metcalf, both young professionals from Erie.
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
Contributor: Jane Riggs Curci (46846403)
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
*****NOTEABLE HISTORY*****
John D Rockefeller was suppose to be on this ill fated train. He happened to be late that fateful morning and missed the train. His luggage was aboard and burned in the fires.
Angola, with its small wooden depot, and just beyond that a bridge—a plain wood-and-concrete truss span—over Big Sister Creek. Only 2 1/2 years earlier, this bridge had borne the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln as it traveled a stunned, war-weary nation on its way toward the slain president's burial place in Illinois.
William W Towner
BIRTH 1842 New York, USA
DEATH 18 Dec 1867 (aged 24–25)
BURIAL Erie Cemetery
Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, USA
MEMORIAL ID 6798815 ·
Note: Edward's middle initial is T. according to this article.
William W. Towner, 25, a surveyor from Erie, Pa., had decided to treat himself to a pleasure trip in advance of the holiday. He was leaving on the 10:20 express to New York with two friends, J. Alexander Martin and Edward T. Metcalf, both young professionals from Erie.
The Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern derails its last coach, due to poor track maintenance, and it plunges forty feet off a truss bridge into Big Sister Creek just after departing Angola. The next car is also pulled from the track and rolls down the far embankment. Stoves set both coaches afire and fifty were killed - three managed to crawl from the wreckage. Forty more are injured. The train actually continued for some distance before the crew realized an accident has happened.
This is considered the most fearful Railway slaughter on record.
Contributor: Jane Riggs Curci (46846403)
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