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The Hammond circus train wreck occurred on June 22, 1918, and was one of the worst train wrecks in U.S. history. Eighty-six people were reported to have died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond, Indiana.
On June 22, 1918, the famous Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered a deadly train accident while traveling to a show in Hammond, Indiana. While the second of the team's trains had pulled off to the side to fix an engineering issue, an empty train used to transport soldiers crashed into five wooden sleeping cars, which ignited a quickly-spreading fire.
Hammond Circus train wreck June 22 – United States – Hammond circus train wreck, near Hammond, Indiana: An empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train collides into the rear end of the stopped Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train, resulting in 86 deaths and 127 injured. The engineer of the troop train had been taking "kidney pills" that had a ...
1918 Hammond Circus Train Wreck, Gary/Hammond, Indiana; 86 killed plus 127 injured. Remains Indiana's deadliest rail disaster to date [97] 1918 Great train wreck of 1918, Nashville, Tennessee; 101 killed plus 171 injured. Officially the deadliest U.S. rail disaster to date [98] [99]
On June 22, 1918, the engineer of a Michigan Central troop train fell asleep, causing the train to run into the rear of a Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus train that was stopped near Hammond, Indiana. The accident resulted in 86 deaths, with another 127 people injured. [16]
English: Train wreck at Hammond Circus Train Wreck, at Hammond, Indiana June 22, 1918. East Oregonian Newspaper caption "Close 100 Hagenbach-Wallace people died when their sleeping car train was run into near Gary, Ind., by a train of empty pullmans returning at high speeds from the east.
They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Hessville, Indiana, (about 5 1 ⁄ 2 miles east of Hammond, Indiana), when an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train from Detroit, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, plowed into their circus train. The engineer of the troop train, Alonzo Sargent, had fallen asleep. Among ...
A collision between a circus train and passengers cars on the Michigan Central Railroad in Hammond, Indiana, caused a fire that killed 86 people and injured 127 others. [ 103 ] Four suspects along with more than 100 waiters were arrested in Chicago after widespread incidents of restaurateurs being poisoned with antimony potassium tartrate , a ...