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Chatsworth Wreck: Midnight, August 10-11, 1887, The

CITY:

Chatsworth

COUNTY:

Livingston

DEDICATED BY:

State of Illinois

DEDICATION DATE:

January 1, 1954 at 6:00:00 AM

The marker is located one mile east of Chatsworth on US 24, just west of the Ford-Livingston County Line. It is on the northwest corner of the intersection of US 24 and County Road 1200E.

One-half mile north on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad occurred one of the worst wrecks in American rail history. An excursion train – two engines and approximately twenty wooden coaches – from Peoria to Niagara Falls, struck a burning culvert . Of the 500 passengers about 85 perished and scores were injured.

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