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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 ...
List of circus accidents; H. Hammond Circus train wreck; S. Satkhira bombings; W. Walter L. Main Circus train wreck This page was last edited on 29 April 2024, at ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
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 .
A circus performer has been hospitalized with serious injuries after falling from a tightrope. The woman sustained "serious injuries" while performing an act during a circus show held at Glyne Gap ...
This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every such event, but only those that have a significant impact on the parks or park operations, or are otherwise significantly newsworthy. The term incidents refers to major accidents, injuries, deaths and significant crimes. While these incidents are required to be reported to regulatory ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Seven of the eight hair-hanging circus acrobats who fell to the ground during a "human chandelier" stunt in Rhode Island last month have hired a Chicago-based law firm to ...
List of aviation accidents and incidents. List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft; Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft; List of airship accidents; List of ballooning accidents; List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters; List of elevator accidents; List of maritime disasters. List of ...