Legacy
Ashtabula General Hospital was built because of the accident. About ten years later steam heat was adopted by the railroad, replacing the wood and coal stoves in passenger cars. In 1887 a federal system was setup to formally investigate fatal railroad accidents.
Twenty years later, in Ashtabula's Chestnut Grove Cemetery, a monument was erected to all those "unidentified" who died in the Ashtabula Railroad disaster.
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