The great circus train wreck of 1918 : tragedy on the Indiana lakeshore / Richard M. Lytle.
2010
GV1821.H3 L97 2010
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Title
The great circus train wreck of 1918 : tragedy on the Indiana lakeshore / Richard M. Lytle.
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ISBN
9781596299313 (pbk.)
1596299312 (pbk.)
1596299312 (pbk.)
Publication Details
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
109 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Item Number
99940473974
Call Number
GV1821.H3 L97 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.12/20977299
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
Calumet Region railroad development
The circus is coming
Hell on wheels
Rescue and remembrance
Gilded misery
Closure.
Calumet Region railroad development
The circus is coming
Hell on wheels
Rescue and remembrance
Gilded misery
Closure.