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Source: Historical Marker in Livingston County, on US 24, about 2.5 miles east of Chatsworth, erected on 1/01/1954 by the State of Illinois

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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. [Source: Historical Marker in Livingston County, on US 24, about 2.5 miles east of Chatsworth, erected on 1/01/1954 by the State of Illinois.]