1894 Rock Island railroad wreck occurred when a locomotive pulling two passenger cars was sabotaged on August 9 , 1894 , in Lincoln , Nebraska . The train was purposely derailed from a 40-foot trestle and eleven people died in the wreck . Today this trestle passes above the Jamaica North Trail at Wilderness Park in Lincoln . To date , the sabotage is one of the largest instances of mass murder in the state of Nebraska . The 1958 killing spree by Charles Starkweather resulted in eleven deaths , and the Westroads Mall shooting of 2007 , which resulted in nine deaths , are other examples of mass murders by individuals . It is also the largest officially unsolved crime in Lincoln history
Westroads Mall shooting
Westroads Mall shooting
1894 Rock Island railroad wreck