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008			130117s2013 nyua ob 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aHE1781 _b.A546 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aVogel, Charity Ann, _e1
245	1	0	_aThe Angola Horror : _bthe 1867 train wreck that shocked the nation and transformed American railroads / _cCharity Vogel.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
340			_2rdacc _0http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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505	0	0	_aTroubled sleep -- _tAngola at dawn -- _tGetting underway -- _tEn route -- _tDelays -- _tApproach -- _tBreaking -- _tFalling -- _tHorror -- _tRescue -- _tRecognitions -- _tReports -- _tMourning -- _tJudging -- _tDebates -- _tChanges.
520	0		_a"On December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Big Sister Creek, just east of the small settlement of Angola, New York, on the shores of Lake Erie. The last two cars of the express train were pitched completely off the tracks and plummeted into the creek bed below. When they struck bottom, one of the wrecked cars was immediately engulfed in flames as the heating stoves in the coach spilled out coals and ignited its wooden timbers. The other car was badly smashed. About fifty people died at the bottom of the gorge or shortly thereafter, and dozens more were injured. Rescuers from the small rural community responded with haste, but there was almost nothing they could do but listen to the cries of the dying--and carry away the dead and injured thrown clear of the fiery wreck. The next day and in the weeks that followed, newspapers across the country carried news of the "Angola Horror," one of the deadliest railway accidents to that point in U.S. history. In a dramatic historical narrative, Charity Vogel tells the gripping, true-to-life story of the wreck and the characters involved in the tragic accident. Her tale weaves together the stories of the people--some unknown; others soon to be famous--caught up in the disaster, the facts of the New York Express's fateful run, the fiery scenes in the creek ravine, and the subsequent legal, legislative, and journalistic search for answers to the question: what had happened at Angola, and why? The Angola Horror is a classic story of disaster and its aftermath, in which events coincide to produce horrific consequences and people are forced to respond to experiences that test the limits of their endurance. Vogel sets the Angola Horror against a broader context of the developing technology of railroads, the culture of the nation's print media, the public policy legislation of the post-Civil War era, and, finally, the culture of death and mourning in the Victorian period. The Angola Horror sheds light on the psyche of the American nation. The fatal wreck of an express train nine years later, during a similar bridge crossing in Ashtabula, Ohio, serves as a chilling coda to the story."--Publisher's website.
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650		0	_aRailroad accidents _zNew York (State) _zAngola.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671625&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell