How to get my catalogue back after a Lightroom view cache error?

LR5 - Been working on a wedding on an external hard drive. While working on it...LR blinks out and closes. Tried to reopen...but keeps saying that there is a catalogue error and that lightroom will try to fix it the next time it fires up. Nope. I tried 8 times and this includes complete reboots...but error doesn't go away. Jump on the forums and they said to delete the Cache folder and then when I reboot that LR would have to recreate that and it would take some time.
I did that....all 100K+ previews....this took some time. I then go to restart LR5 and it is as though the software was brand new....no photos at all....not missing file.....gone! My photos are still on my external hard drive - no harm done. But to start the editing process over again on the two weddings I have on there....would take HOURS!!
IS there a way to get the edits and photos back without re-importing them? I do not have backup LR5 files before the import of this wedding.

John thanks for hanging in there with me! I am a photographer first.....and then a computer technician....like 12th.
I had checked the Recycle bin prior to your message and there is no such file like that in my bin. When I go to the LR file...and click on the Lightroom5 catalogue file....it opens lightroom and has none of my older files in it. I was calling the preview files the data files...sorry I did not know the correct jargon for those files.
It sounds like I may have deleted the original Lightroom 5 Catalog.lrcat. And then according to the forum...emptied my bin. When I opened lightroom again it created another Lightroom5 Catalog.lrcat file. When I click on it....as to open the catalogue...it opens LR with just the 68 photos that I put back into lightroom today for I need to get some editing done. I am not sure if this could have made going back to the way things were even possible. I have two weddings and three family shoots that are coming up on deadline...so I was just trying to get some done before it go too close to the end of my delivery periods.
I had an IT guy come over....and he was kind of lost when it came down to this. He believes all is lost. I was just hoping there was a way of importing the preview files....to regenerate the catalogue....to regain my edits...but if I deleted the lr5 catalogue file....it sounds like I may be at a dead end? Is this correct?

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