During the early hours of June 22, 1918, a locomotive with a sleeping engineer at its controls plowed into the back of a circus train near Gary, Ind., smashing through cars filled with sleeping ...

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 people injured and 86 killed. Wikimedia Commons The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wasn’t the ...

In the early morning hours of June 22, 1918, the second of two Hagenback-Wallace Circus trains was headed to Hammond from Michigan City when was rear-ended, as it was stopped to check a hot box on a ...

To ensure safety, the move was not publicized and volunteers helped detour cyclists on the Legacy Trail to create a clear path as it made the half-mile trip from Uni-Glide Trailer Co. on Seaboard ...