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wes00mertes t1_jdndcl1 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 6:15 PM

Reply to comment by BananaDilemma in TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke. by MorsOmnibusCommunis

You hear “500 die in Train Disaster” and you expect something more gruesome.

GhostBurger12 t1_jdo3244 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 9:22 PM

It's such a large number, it would require a 100% train derailment / a whole bridge collapsing if it wasn't asphyxiation.