Accidents And Disasters Collection (page 8)

Wartime Skirmish
February 1916: A Russian patrol skirmishing during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Terra Nova
13th February 1913: The ice-bound SS Terra Nova used by Captain Robert Falcon Scott on his ill-fated Antarctic expedtion to the South Pole. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Triplane Nosedive
26th May 1919: The trial flight of the three-winged Tarrant Triplane ends in failure. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunken Cargo
September 1919: A wrecked barge at on the River Thames at Blackfriars Bridge in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Accident
September 1908: A crowd standing underneath a partially collapsed bridge watching officials investigate an overhead train derailment in Berlin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Skeleton Coach
22nd May 1915: A burnt-out carriage balanced precariously on the rails after a troop train crashed at Gretna Green in south-west Scotland. Many soldiers were injured in the incident and 158 died

Ambulance
circa 1907: A motorised ambulance picking up an injured man in Fleet Street in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Parliament Street
2nd December 1924: A policeman holds up the traffic in Parliament Street to allow members of parliament to get to the House of Commons on a rainy winter evening

Death Curve
16th March 1914: J B Marquis in a 1913 GP Sunbeam racing car overturns on Death Curve during the 35th lap of the International Grand Prix at Santa Monica. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mangled Wreckage
15th October 1907: Men inspecting the damage after a train crash at Shrewsbury. The engine was a 4-6-0 Stephenson. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Derailed Train
1920: This train was blown off the line at Owencarra Viaduct in Eire. Passengers were flung from the coach, falling almost 40 feet to the ground below the viaduct

Crashed Triplane
May 1919: The trial flight of the Tarrant Triplane ends in failure. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shipwreck
circa 1911: A shipwreck floating on the waters. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

O Connell Statue
29th July 1914: Funeral of one of the victims shot by a member of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, during the Bachelors Walk Massacre in Dublin

Bachelors Walk
29th July 1914: Funeral of one of the victims shot by a member of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, during the Bachelors Walk Massacre in Dublin

Clean Up
2nd October 1912: Labourers at work clearing up debris after a water main burst in Old Broad Street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flamingo Hotel
circa 1929: The Flamingo Hotel in Miami in the aftermath of a great hurricane. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

An Overturned House
1925: A toppled house which was carried more than 50ft in the great US cyclone disaster of 1925. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flood Wreckage
circa 1921: A house wrecked by the floods in Pueblo City, Colorado. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bus Crash
circa 1925: A crowd of passers-by gather round an overturned bus in Shirland Road, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Buses Collide
31st July 1912: A cart lies overturned on the road after being involved in an accident with two buses in Fleet Street, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Three-Wheeler
November 1924: A car loses a wheel at high speed on the Culver City Speedway, Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Free State Guard
January 1922: A Free State soldier on patrol during the Irish Civil War. (Photo by Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Women Fire-Fighters
March 1916: Members of the Women of the Fire Brigade put a fire escape into position. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lusitania
circa 1914: The British steamship, Lusitania sunk by a German submarine on the 7th May 1915 with the loss of 1198 lives. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

L Atlantique
4th January 1933: The French liner L Atlantique is gutted by an accidental fire in the English Channel. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Airship Crash
May 1911: The remains of an airship hanging in a tree as a group search the wreckage of the Le Baudy disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Railway Disaster
July 1906: The wreckage of the trains following the Salisbury railway disaster. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Petrol Wagon
7th May 1926: Mounted police escort a petrol wagon along St Georges Road, Southwark, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Steam Lorry
November 1923: A steam traction engine with a broken rear axle in Pall Mall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coal Truck Crash
December 1923: A lorry delivering coal, which has skidded off the road and crashed into the railings outside a house. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Back To School
27th August 1935: A police officer helping a group of children to cross Rosebery Avenue, London, on their way to school. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Reggio Earthquake
circa 1908: The wrecked station house by the railway in Reggio de Calabria, following the earthquake of 1908. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Avalanche
7th April 1914: The Italian village of Ruinaux buried beneath tons of snow, after a disastrous avalanche. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mount Etna Erupts
February 1925: The Italian volcano Mount Etna, erupting. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Vauxhall Crash
The aftermath of a rail crash at Vauxhall Station in London, 29th August 1912. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Dujiangyan, Chengdu, China
irrigation infrastructure built in 256 BC

Trango towers in Karakorum range
The Trango Towers are a group of granite cliffs located in the northern part of the Baltoro Glacier in Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan. Part of the Karakoram mountain range

Trango Castle in Karakorum range
Trango Castle (5, 753 m). The Trango Towers are a group of granite cliffs located in the northern part of the Baltoro Glacier in Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan

Trango towers in Karakorum range
The Trango Towers are a group of granite cliffs located in the northern part of the Baltoro Glacier in Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan. Part of the Karakoram mountain range

Trango glacier in Karakorum range
Trango Glacier is a glacier in the Baltoro Muztagh range of the Karakoram in Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It flows from north to south on the west side of the Trango Towers

Trango towers in Karakorum range
The Trango Towers are a group of granite cliffs located in the northern part of the Baltoro Glacier in Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan. Part of the Karakoram mountain range

Trango towers in Karakorum range
The Trango Towers are a group of granite cliffs located in the northern part of the Baltoro Glacier in Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan. Part of the Karakoram mountain range

Trango towers in Karakorum range
The Trango Towers are a group of granite cliffs located in the northern part of the Baltoro Glacier in Baltistan, a region in northern Pakistan. Part of the Karakoram mountain range

Masherbrum peak from Baltoro glacier in Karakorum range
Masherbrum (also known as K1) is located in the Ghanche District, Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan. At 7, 821 metres (25, 659 ft)

Baltoro glacier with Gasherbrum IV in the background, Karakorum Range
Baltoro Glacier trekking is one of the best treks in the world. The trekking starts from the village of Askole, walking along the Baltoro Glacier to reach Concordia

Gasherbrum IV peak in from Baltoro glacier, in Karakorum range
Gasherbrum IV is the 17th highest mountain on Earth and the 6th highest in Pakistan. It is one of the peaks in the Gasherbrum massif

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