Angola Horror

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The Angola Horror train wreck occurred on Wednesday, December 18, 1867, just after 3 p.m. in Angola, New York, when the last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore Railway derailed at a bridge, slid down into a gorge, and caught fire, killing 49 people. At the time, it was one of the deadliest train wrecks in American history.

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