On January 6, 2005, a Norfolk Southern train with forty-two cars attached, traveling at approximately fifty miles per hour, struck a misaligned switch, sending the locomotive into the path of a parked locomotive. derailing both. Three of the tank cars contained chlorine, and one car was breached in the accident, dumping 180,000 pounds of poisonous…
The Horrific Charleston Tornado of 1938
The Charleston Area Tornado outbreak of 1938 is rarely mentioned in South Carolina’s haunted history. On September 29, 1938, five tornadoes struck the area, spawned by a tropical depression that formed in the Gulf two days before. Three tornadoes pummeled James Island and Sullivan’s, but the worst one hit downtown Charleston, resulting in almost 30…