List of Accidents and Disasters By Death Toll | List Accidents Disasters Death Toll

This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents. This list does not include war or other violent acts.

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“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
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The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
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The day’s disasters in his morning face.”
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—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)

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one is straddling a cello in Russia....”
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