"The greatest cause of death when colisions occured was penetration of passenger carrying spaces, usually by one car telesoping into another, or sometimes by one car riding up over and enveloping the next. Of course, any disintergration of the passenger space was deadly."


Wasn't one of the main causes of death or injury to passengers back then from derailments/ collisions was that the wood burning stoves/ heaters in each car would overturn or spill, thus catching the cars on fire and burning all trapped inside? Just curious.