Screaming Bridge, Maud Hughes Road

Ohio · United States · School

Two engineers were scalded to death when a boiler blew beneath this Ohio bridge on a Sunday morning in October 1909. Trainmen in black are still reported.

Screaming Bridge carries Maud Hughes Road across the railway in Liberty Township, Ohio, about twenty five feet above the tracks. The line below it belonged to the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St Louis railway in the late 1800s and became New York Central freight around 1900.

The incident behind the name is documented. On the morning of Sunday 24 October 1909, a northbound freight train came up from Union Township and the boiler of the steam engine blew. Two engineers were scalded to death.

Since then, men in black railway clothing have been reported walking the tracks between the bridge and Gano. The bridge itself has a grim modern record separate from the haunting: it has seen a long run of car accidents and suicides over the years, with at least thirty six recorded incidents. That combination, a dated industrial disaster underneath and a continuing toll on the road above, makes this one of the most reported bridges in southern Ohio.

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Screaming Bridge, Maud Hughes Road is in Ohio, United States.