Great New Market Wreck - New Market, TN
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vhasler
N 36° 05.595 W 083° 36.043
17S E 265855 N 3997423
The guide gives a song about this 1904 train crash.
Waymark Code: WMFZ2F
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2012
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The guidebook tell us that:
GREAT NEW MARKET WRECK.
On September 4, 1904, two crack passenger trains of the Southern Railway collided. Part of a long, popular hill ballad tells the whole story:
One autumn morning in Tennessee
An awful wreck was heard;
East of Knoxville and New Market
Was where the crash occurred.
The east and west-bound passenger trains
Were running at highest speed;
They struck each other in the curve;
'Twas a horrible sight indeed.
The engine crew on the west-bound train
Their orders had misread;
About one hundred and fifty were hurt,
And nearly seventy were dead.
--- Tennessee: A Guide to the State, 1939
Head-on collosion of local Train No. 15 out of Bristol and the Carolina Special No. 12 out of Chattanooga killed 64-113 people.