A list of some train disasters with fatalities of 200 or more since 1900 compiled by a wire service:
— May 22, 1915: Gretna, Scotland. Collision of two passenger trains and a troop train, 227 killed.
— Dec. 12, 1917: Modane, France. Troop train derails near the entrance of Mt. Cenis tunnel, 543 killed.
— Jan. 16, 1944: Leon Prov., Spain. Train wrecks in the Torro Tunnel, more than 500 killed.
— Mar. 2, 1944: Salerno, Italy. Train stalls in a tunnel, suffocating passengers. 521 killed.
— Oct. 22. 1949: Nr. Dwor, Poland. Danzig-Warsaw express derails, more than 200 killed.
— Apr. 3, 1955: Guadalajara, Mexico. Train plunges into a canyon, 300 killed.
— Sept. 29, 1957: Montgomery, West Pakistan. Express train collides with stationary oil train, 250 killed.
— Feb. 1, 1970: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Express train rams stationary commuter train, 236 killed.
— Oct. 6, 1972: Saltillo, Mexico. Train carrying religious pilgrims derails and catches fire, 208 killed.
— June 6, 1981: Bihar, India. Train crashes after bridge collapses in flash floods during monsoon, more than 400 killed.
— Jan. 4, 1990: Sindh Province, Pakistan. Overcrowded 16-car passenger train collides with standing freight train, more than 210 killed.
— Sept. 22, 1994: Tolunda, Angola. Faulty brakes cause a train to plunge into a ravine, 300 killed.
— Aug. 20, 1995: Firozabad, India. A speeding passenger train crashes into a train that had stalled after hitting a cow, 358 killed.
–Aug. 2, 1999: Gauhati, India. Two express trains collide head-on, more than 285.