[PDF.94kd] The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore (Disaster)

The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore (Disaster)

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 | #114672 in Books |  The History Press |  2010-07-23 |  2010-07-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.31 x6.00l,.42 | File type: PDF | 112 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| This tragic tale of a circus train catastrophe seems to ...|By Fenway|This tragic tale of a circus train catastrophe seems to be relatively unknown outside the area in which it occurred. It's a very short book and the actual train accident only accounts for a few pages. The beginning of the book is heavy on detail about the rail system and the budding towns alongside the railwa|About the Author|Richard Lytle is the local history librarian at the Hammond Public Library and an officer of the Hammond Historical Society. He has previously published two books on military history, The Soldiers of America's First Army: 1791 and The Old Guard

In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer's locomotive plowed into the circus train. In the subsequent wreckage and blaze, more than two hundred circus performers were injured and eighty-six were killed, most of whom were interred in a mass grave in the Showmen's...

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