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

Lytle, Richard M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596299312 ISBN 13 : 9781596299313

Editeur : History Press, 2010

Synopsis

What really happened on the circus train in 1918? Read the story of this tragedy for the entertainment industry of the time.

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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to write this book since taking on his post at the library eight years ago and gaining access to its collection of unpublished train wreck photos.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: History Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596299312
• ISBN 13: 9781596299313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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• Personne responsable: non disponible