Train-wreck

Full definition of train-wreck

Noun

• 1913, Jack London, Valley of the Moon, Chapter 14:Harmon, the fireman lodger, passing through the kitchen on his way out to work, had paused to tell Saxon about the previous day's train-wreck in the Alviso marshes, and of how the engineer, imprisoned under the overturned engine and unhurt, being drowned by the rising tide, had begged to be shot.