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PageNet. PageNet , also known as Paging Network, Inc., was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur George Perrin and ceased in 1999. The company grew to become the largest wireless messaging company in the world, with more than 10 million pagers in service, and $1 billion in revenues, before the paging industry's rapid decline in the late 1990s.
A possible tornado also caused damage in Frazeysburg, Ohio, around 50 miles east of Columbus. Photos show debris littered streets, snapped power poles and some partially collapsed structures.
January 20, 1877. The locomotive Socrates is at upper right. / 41.8785; -80.7894. The Ashtabula River railroad disaster (also called the Ashtabula horror, the Ashtabula Bridge disaster, and the Ashtabula train disaster) was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876.
December 15, 1969 [22] Location. The Silver Memorial Bridge is a cantilever bridge that spans the Ohio River between Gallipolis, Ohio, and Henderson, West Virginia. The bridge was completed in 1969 as a replacement for the collapsed Silver Bridge, although it is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) downstream (south) of the original.
Wapakoneta is in Auglaize County in western Ohio. It's about 90 miles northwest of Columbus. The suspected tornado was spotted at 7:43 p.m. Thursday traveling southeast from Mercer County ...
Akron Evening Times, Oct. 28, 1918: "Bridge collapses; two escape death" Oct. 28, 1922: "Heavy truck causes bridge to collapse" Jan. 22, 1935: "The high level bridge failure"
Contents. East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment. A train derailment occurred on February 3, 2023, at 8:55 p.m. EST ( UTC−5 ), when 38 cars of a Norfolk Southern freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, United States. [1] Several railcars burned for more than two days, with emergency crews then conducting a ...
Thursday night, severe weather led to 20 tornado warnings across Ohio, leaving a trail of storm damage and cutting power to thousands. Severe storms and confirmed tornadoes in Mercer, Crawford and ...