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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.
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Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss: Ashtabula Bridge Disaster - Newspaper and eye-witness accounts of the Ashtabula, Ohio, railroad train wreck disaster. Ashtabula Rail Bridge, 1876 - Collapse of iron and mortar railway bridge. Detailed account, historical notes, enquiry findings and before/after photographs.
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