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Lyrics for Chatsworth Wreck by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Chatsworth Wreck | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 176 | | | | Lyrics: | The Chatsworth Wreck
From city, town and hamlet there came a merry throng
To
view the great Niagara, with joy they sped along.
The maiden and her lover, the husband
and the wife,
The merry prattling children so full of joyous life.
With hand
upon the lever and eye upon the track
The engineer is standing while the shades of night grow
black
To see the smouldering timbers that lay along the ridge,
Oh God, in pity
save them! It is the railway bridge.
A mighty crash of timbers, a sound of hissing
steam;
The groans and cries of anguish, a woman's stifled scream.
The dead and
dying mingled with the broken beams and bars;
An awful human carnage, a dreadful wreck of
cars.
AlI honor to the brave ones who flame and fire fought
AII through that night of
horror, a glory dearly bought
Over land and o'er the water this thrilling message
crossed
The bridge was burned at Chatsworth, a hundred lives were lost
But oh, how
much of sorrow, and oh, how much of pain
Awaited those who journeyed on that fatal railway
train.
From Folk Songs Out of Wisconsin, Peters
Collected from F. A. Fair, Grand
Forks, ND, 1923
Note: The wreck occurred in 1881 in Chatworth, Illinois/ The
train
was headed for Niagara Falls.
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