misfortune vs train wreck

misfortune

noun
  • An undesirable event such as an accident. 

  • Bad luck. 

train wreck

noun
  • The aftermath of a train crash. 

  • A disaster, especially one which is large in scale and readily seen by public observers. 

  • Someone (especially a woman) who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin. 

verb
  • To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster. 

How often have the words misfortune and train wreck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )