In 1919, a dirigible called the Wingfoot Air Express burst into flames and crashed through the skylight of a Chicago bank killing 13 people.
All in Disasters
Death at the Hyatt
114 people were killed and over 200 were injured when an elevated walkway collapsed at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri.
Miss Macao
In 1948, 25 people died in the first known hijacking of a commercial plane.
Gulliver's Inferno
A nightclub fire in Port Chester, New York claimed 24 lives.
Mianus
In 1983, a 100-foot section of the Mianus River Bridge collapsed and 4 vehicles plunged into the shallow water below.
The Hammond Wreck
An engineer on a troop transport train fell asleep and rammed his engine through a circus train that had stopped on the tracks.