Historical Marker
In 1954, the state of Illinois placed a historical marker commemorating the event along U.S. Route 24. The marker has the following text:
| “ | The Chatsworth Wreck - Midnight, August 10–11, 1887 - 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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—Erected by the state of Illinois, 1954. |
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