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.

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Auburn, CA Bridge Collapse, Nov 1911

ELEVEN KILLE AND FIVE OTHERS INJURED WHEN BRIDGE COLLAPSES.

FORTY MEN WERE WORKING ON THE BRIDGE WHEN IT GAVE AWAY AND THEY DROPPED SIXTY FEET INTO THE WATERS OF AMERICAN RIVER.  read more »

Waynesville, NC Log Building Collapse, June 1911

FOUR KILLED IN BULL PEN.

LOG BUILDING COLLAPSES, CRUSHING CONVICTS INSIDE - 26 INJURED.  read more »

Heshbon, PA House Fire, Oct 1911

NINE CHILDREN PERISH IN FLAMES.  read more »

Dame Creek, AK Gold Mine Cave In, Sep 1911

FOURTEEN MINER ENTOMBED IN CAVE-IN IN ALASKA MINE.  read more »