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Big Bayou Conot train disaster - Definition |
| Related Words: Apoplexy, Blow, Breakdown, Calamity, Casualty, Cataclysm, Catastrophe, Cave, Climax, Collapse, Collision, Convulsion, Crash, Diastrophism, Distress, Fatality, Fit, Grief |
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The Big Bayou Conot train disaster of September 22, 1993 is the worst disaster in the history of United States railroad company Amtrak.
The accident occurred with the collapse of a bridge over the Big Bayou Conot in southern Alabama; when the scheduled Sunset Limited passenger train reached the bridge it plunged into the water. Forty-seven people were killed many by drowning, others by fire.
The cause of the accident was determined to be a barge that collided with the bridge a short time before the disaster, displacing the tracks on the bridge.
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