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The Montreal Express left the rails at Hartford, Vermont on 2/4/1887. 32 died.
'Twas the Montreal Express
It was speeding at its best
When near the Hartford bridge it struck a broken rail
And with a fearful crash
To the river bed it dashed
And few survived to tell that awful tale.
"Hartford Wreck," The New Green Mountain Songster,
HH Flanders, et al., 1939 & 1966.
And about which Flanders says it: "...is a good example of an American journalistic ballad.
Sadly lacking in the qualities which make good poetry, and not any too singable to boot,
it was written for quick salability." Nevertheless, it was still in tradition in 1931.
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