Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

Author Richard M. Lytle is still surprised by how many Northwest Indiana residents have never heard of "the great circus train wreck of 1918" in Hammond. FYI: The book also is available at local ...

FOREST PARK, Ill. — The truth about the Showmen's Rest section of Woodlawn Cemetery is violent, heart-wrenching and touching — it needs no embellishing, it's interesting enough. But that didn't ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

GARY — History buffs listened to speeches amid the train horns Friday morning as they commemorated the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck that claimed 86 lives. “This is where history, the love of ...

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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America. The caravan was ...

Prior to commencing the column at hand, we're trying something new, and beginning, rather than concluding the column with, "Have a nice week, and God bless America." There, now try leaving that one on ...

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 ...