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The great circus train wreck of 1918 :

by Lytle, Richard M., Published by : History Press, (Charleston, SC :) Physical details: 109 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. ISBN:9781596299313; 1596299312.
Subject(s): Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. | Railroad accidents -- Indiana -- Hammond.
Year: 2010
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Non-fiction 		Adult reading level 363.12 LYT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39124000221633

Includes bibliographical references.

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus -- Calumet Region railroad development -- The circus is coming -- Hell on wheels -- Rescue and remembrance -- Gilded misery -- Closure.

In the pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer drifted to sleep as the train chugged toward Hammond, Indiana, where it plowed into the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. More than two hundred circus performers were injured and eighty-six were killed. Lytle recounts the details of this tragedy and its role in the demise of a unique entertainment industry.

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