The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore

In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab...
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Author: Richard M. Lytle
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Language: English
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The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore by Lytle, Richard M.

The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore

$64.44

The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore

$64.44
Author: Richard M. Lytle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 entertainment industry.

Author: Richard M. Lytle
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 07/23/2010
Pages: 114
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781540224101

About the Author
Lytle, Richard M.: - 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to write this book since taking on his post at the library eight years ago and gaining access to its collection of unpublished train wreck photos.

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