Global InformationRailway accident on the Bostian Bridge information
The railway accident on the Bostian Bridge killed 23 people on August 27, 1891, west of Statesville, North Carolina, when a Richmond & Danville Railroad train derailed.[1]
On the same day, 119 years later, a trespassing pedestrian was hit and killed by a train on the bridge.
- ^ Bill Moose: Bostian Bridge Train Wreck. In: Encyclopedia of North Carolina, edited by William S. Powell, 2006. Retrieved on 21 July 2018.