The Ashtabula Bridge Disaster: The Worst Train Disaster of the 19th Century

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  @headrushindi · 2 years ago

  I was born and raised in Ashtabula . Though I live in North Carolina now where I have been since the late 1980's. I spent my youth  in the 1970's in Ashtabula till I joined the US Army in 1982.  As a teen , myself  a musician , and some teen band mates would often go to the Chestnut Grove cemetery in Ashtabula, with our guitars , and play and write music. It was a perfect , quiet , peaceful place to get away from distractions. We would often go to the Mass Grave in that cemetery where the multitude of the  unidentified dead were put to rest under a large monument  with the  history of the tragic event  engraved upon it. This tale was a great part of the history of the area and was always a point of fascination for me. You did such a great job with this mini documentary . Kudos to you  for telling this story so respectfully , and  professionally.

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  @AllenMorris-d1i · 3 months ago

  I want to say thank you! You have done a very compassionate phenomenal informative presentation of the tragic bridge/  train accident. When the accident was said to have happened in Ashtabula, it got my attention because my family moved there in the harbor area of Ashtabula in 1956, living there and graduating in 1968, at Ashtabula high school. I’m am now 75 years old living in Sandusky, Ohio. Thank you again for your honorable service for those that are interested in the past.

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  @Haserot · 11 months ago

  this is my hometown. thanks for giving us some historical love <3

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  @darabennett4316 · 4 years ago

  I love hearing these stories, &nbsp;even though it is of the macabre and very tragic. &nbsp;It&apos;s our duty as human beings, to remember history, either good or bad. To have lived your life, then die in such a horrible way, and be forgotten to time, where your name is but a distant memory. That, in my opinion, is one of the saddest things. No one wants to be forgotten. &nbsp;That&apos;s why I love what you do, what historians and librarians do. You guys make sure that everyone not only knows the story&apos;s of what happened, years gone by, but you make sure that those passed and forgotten, &nbsp;are still alive in our hearts, that they still have a name.<br><br>Thank you again, for taking the time to study and research these stories, so they not be forgotten.

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• KE

  @kevinhoward9593 · 10 months ago

  Ashtabula Horror.

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• JU

  @judybaker718 · 4 years ago

  This one brought a tear to my eye...💗🇨🇦

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• DE

  @deirdrepasko9965 · 4 years ago

  Horrific and incredibly sad.

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• TE

  @teresacorrigan3076 · 2 years ago

  Oh what a tragic event. Horrible. 😢

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  @curtislavallee8444 · 4 years ago

  very tragic indeed thank you.

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• JA

  @jamesrader3329 · 3 years ago

  So sad. I can imagine what those people went through.

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  @erin-shhmerin3704 · 4 years ago

  Interestingly all these years later, they&apos;re still finding personal effects and remnants of the train on the banks and in the river.

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• PA

  @pamelashiflett5281 · 4 years ago

  You had my tears pouring with this one. &nbsp;I was a combat medic, but during my day, women weren&apos;t allowed on the front, so I trained medics and served as a paramedic for civilians, with the intention of continuing after my military career. &nbsp;I&apos;ve seen heroics of men running into completely consumed with fires, complete strangers to the families. &nbsp;One man I remember clearly, after time lost part of his leg and one hand from his heroics. &nbsp;The media interviewed him after his hospitalization and asked him what made him risk his own life? &nbsp; He said he had rather died than live with hearing those screams the rest of his life. &nbsp;He was an amazing man. &nbsp;I&apos;ve also seen people looting while the rescue efforts were going on. &nbsp;Human kind is so puzzling. &nbsp;What makes one man see people that need him, where others see an opportunity to steal? &nbsp;Great story, very painful, but such a great job that you and your family do Thank you for keeping these stories alive. &nbsp;So impressed with your channel. &nbsp;Thank you my friends.

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