It seems like their should have been songs about it, though Katie Letcher Lyle, who wrote about train wreck songs in "Scalded to Death by the Steam", pointed out two interest facts, first, that train wreck songs were mostly an Appalachian phenomenon:

"If one marked every spot on a map of the lower forty-eight states where a wreck that had a song composed about it occurred, a heavy cluster would form west of the Blue Ridge and east of the Ohio River, north of the Smokies, and south of the north fork of the James River."

The other is that train wreck songs tended to be about heroic actions rather than accounts of historical events.

"The disastrous wrecks, in terms of lives lost, were generally not written about. Mass tragedy has probably never been as interesting as the death of one or two individuals."

Most varied considerably from the actual facts of the incident, and some of the most famous were completely fictional.

As our current and most horrific massacre shows, the actual facts in these incidents are scattered and random, and, though shocking and disturbing, they lack a coherent narrative.