Talk:Ashtabula River railroad disaster

message: There is much more to this story that i may add one day. To learn more in the mean time, please visit the external links. The firsthand accounts, and the court activity is especially fascinating, as are the ghost stories.
--The-outlaw-torn 22:16, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: Please note that the coordinates in this article need fixing as:
 41°52'42.36"N ,  80°47'22.34"W
(Comment above is undated and unattributed. BrainMarble (talk) 02:57, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinates 

message: Not sure if it could be worked into the article here, but there is now a file on Commons of the Monument that was built for the unknown dead.  Avicennasis @ 05:03, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Monument Image

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Fatalities has "159 passengers and crew" while elsewhere it's all just 159 passengers.
;Bear (talk) 02:04, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Count discrepancy 

message: I propose that Angola Horror be merged into Ashtabula River railroad disaster. The content in the Angola Horror article is pretty much duplicated in the context of Ashtabula River railroad disaster, and the merging will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Tim1965 (talk) 03:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose; they were separate incidents nine years apart in different states, and I don't see how the content of the two articles are duplicates of each other. Daniel Case (talk) 03:48, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Oppose. I do not see any duplication at all. Kablammo (talk) 05:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: Until a minute ago, the article cited "" (reference [6]) as support for four different statements:
* Stone had purchased the patent rights to brother-in-law William Howe's truss bridge
* Railroad employees also told Knapp that his firefighters should get the wounded out and clear a pathway up the side of the ravine.
* the official count is 92 dead.
* Another 64 people were injured.
Something is quite wrong here, because the linked article does not say any of those things.  It does say:
* Stone, built many Howe trusses in the mid-west.
* Unfortunately, the bridge collapsed ... killing 90 people.
But there's no mention of Stone buying the patent rights, or injuries, or Knapp, or firefighters, or the ravine, or an official count of 92 dead.  My guess is that the person who inserted these cites meant to cite a different article, but I don't know what.  In fact I have a source that shows the official count as 83 dead.
So I've edited the article to change the official count to 83 (citing my source), to delete the "as low as 87", and to delete the cites of Griggs's article, but I'm leaving the other statements unchanged. --69.159.8.46 (talk) 08:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Structure'' reference 

message: At beginning of the angle blocks design section, the names of the authors of the article claiming the loss of the design. This reads somewhat strange as the authors are not mentioned previously in the article. I propose the addition of at least some kind of introduction for these two as their names are used later in the section. Thoughts? RotundRadish307 (talk) 16:36, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gasparini and Fields Mention