Tcherny railway accident

In the railway accident Kukujewskaja (also: Railway accident of Chern ). Junijul on 29 / July 11 1882greg. crashed near the village of Kukujewskaja in the government of Tula, between the stations Chern (Russian Чернь ) and the Mtsensk District, Russian Empire, at kilometer 316 of the railway line Moscow - Kursk, an express train after damage to the substructure of a railway embankment. 42 people died.

Starting position

At the accident site later, the line ran on an up to 27 -meter-high embankment, which crossed a body of water. Against the dam flowing water was passed through two cast iron pipes under the dam through. On June 29, 1882 it was raining very heavily in the area. The flow clogged and the water dammed up against the embankment and soaked it up. The crew of a train passed the accident site, reported the damage at the next station. However, this did not help, because the telegraphic connection was interrupted because of the storm.

The accident

When the pressure of the water against the embankment was too high, he broke down and was washed into the gorge. The tracks were hanging in the air. In this situation the following express drove ( " mail train " ) without warning in the danger zone in and crashed into the resulting gap. Following on closes water and mud covered the wreckage of the crashed vehicles among themselves.

Follow

42 people died and 35 others were injured. Among the dead was also a nephew of writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, Nikolai Turgenev.

The cleanup proved to be very difficult because the cars were buried in the mud part. Military was used, but the work could be completed until 15 July 1882. The military blocked the scene of the accident from a wide area. The journalist Vladimir Alexeyevich Giljarowski succeeded nevertheless, if to penetrate even without permission to the scene and two weeks to report on the clean-up. This led to fierce criticism of the railway in the public because this was not the first major accident on the Russian railways but the first was reported extensively on the and discussed in public. Even the allegation of corruption in the award of civil works were brought against managers of the railway. The railway accident contributed to that in the Russian public the booming technological progress in Russia was henceforth looked at more critically. The accident was therefore processed several times in literature, so among other things, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Saltykov -Shchedrin.