Some hundreds on the ice took their station,
Young men and boys, in youth and bloom,
To the park went for healthy recreation.
But soon it gave way, more than 40 lost their lives,
The widows and poor orphans ’twill distress them;
God bless those gallant hearts, to save life did strive,
And those now in Heaven,—God rest them.
’Twas near four o’clock, how dreadful to relate,
The ice it broke up in every quarter;
Two hundred then fell in, oh, what a sad fate,