Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore

Name: Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore
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ISBN: 9781596299313

ISBN-10: 1596299312

ISBN-13: 9781596299313

Edition: 2010

Authors: Richard M. Lytle

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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 Rest section of Chicago's Woodlawn Cemetery. Join local historian Richard Lytle as he recounts, in the fullest retelling to date, the details of this tragedy and its role in the overall evolution and demise of a unique…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 7/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

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 1898-and has been eager to write this book since taking on his post at the library eight years ago and gaining access to its collection of unpublished train wreck photos.



Preface


Acknowledgements



The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus



Calumet Region Railroad Development



The Circus Is Coming



Hell on Wheels



Rescue and Remembrance



Gilded Misery



Closure


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


About the Author