Welcome to GenDisasters!
What You'll Find Here. Newspaper articles about Train Wrecks, Fires, Floods, Shipwrecks, Plane Crashes, Accidents and other disasters. Most of these articles list the dead and injured or missing. Use the Search Box to search for your ancestors or Browse the articles by type of disaster, state or year.
Dick Eastman mentioned us on his Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
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