On this day 54 years ago, the HemisFair monorail crashed, killing one and injuring 47.
Bob WestonOn this day in 1968, a 65-year-old woman named Emilee Schmidt from Missouri died and 47 others were injured after a monorail crashed and derailed during the second busiest day of the fair at what was then. More than 89,000 people were at the fair that day, according to the Houston Chronicle.
A woman also had to be saved from drowning after the derailment after two of the 11 monorail cars that derailed landed in a lagoon. Several riders were thrown from the monorail cars as they came crashing down. The crash was caused by two trains bumping into one another on a curve in the track, according to San Antonio Express reporting."Witnesses said the cars derailed 'like a slow snake creeping down' after a mini-monorail struck another from behind," the Chronicle reported.
The normal speed of the trains was 5 1/2 to 6 mph. Following the derailment, an ambulance driving the injured to a hospital collided with a vehicle, injuring the driver of the ambulance and a passenger. The HemisFair monorail served about 1 million riders during the fair. Parts of the overhead ride remained operational after Oct. 6, 1968, according to San Antonio Express-News archives.
Portions of the ride were kept in a city storage facility, as plans proposed to rebuild the monorail failed due to the high costs involved. The city decided to auction off leftover pieces in 1995, according to a previous
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