The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540224101ISBN-10:1540224104UPC:9781540224101Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Circus, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCVQ5R1654
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 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540224101ISBN-10:1540224104UPC:9781540224101Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Circus, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCVQ5R1654
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...
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