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.
- Genre: History
- Subgenre: USA / State + Local / Midwest
- Publisher: History Pr
- Pages: 112
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: August 2, 2010
- Date Published: August 2, 2010
- Author: Richard Lytle