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

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.

About the author

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to write this book since taking on his post at the library eight years ago and gaining access to its collection of unpublished train wreck photos.

Product details

• Authors: Richard M Lytle, Richard M. Lytle
• Publisher: The History Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.07.2010
• EAN: 9781596299313
• ISBN: 978-1-59629-931-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 228 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 191 g
• Series: Disaster
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet