I really should have been paying more attention. I knew they did that because it happens all the time, I just had no idea that something had gotten caught.
Just now I had a fairly grand loyalty cascade scenario. I had ordered my soldiers to attack the merchant animals since they refused to accept a pretty wide profit margin of up to +100 and left, and my mason was being lazy of course. (I don't dump crafts on them, I usually can get what I want with only a +20-30 profit margin) In all, everyone except the original expedition leader died horribly. A polar bear and bronze golem were the major culprits. The golem, though locked in combat with another, is obviously fairly close to invincible to the kobolds, but the bear was the one that earned a complete title. Jifibiseekis Ovabibawe Carimaadi, or "Jifibiseekis Sungtamed the Contemptible Ace". 20 migrants arrived and I locked them outside, but the bear was also out there. She managed to kill one more before a tame helmet snake pinned her down with it's venom and the kobolds surrounded her. They never killed her and the cascade was never ended, after a while I canceled the station order on the bear's bloated, pale body, and everyone ran back to the meeting hall near where the wagon was, the helmet snake stayed to torture her. Then the game crashed again.
Should I restart the cascade? Not nearly as much fun the second time around I'd imagine.