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The author is the great-niece of an elephant trainer of the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus. Hagenbeck's name also appears in a series of Polish books for teenagers by Alfred Szklarski. The main characters from the books travel around the world to hunt animals for Hagenbeck's circus. Hagenbeck is also mentioned in the story "First Love" by Samuel ...
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 .
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Wallace used the land to build barns and buildings including a cat barn, an elephant barn, a wagon shed, a carpenter shop and a foundry. [6] Wallace acquired and merged the La Pearl circus in 1899. [7] In 1907, Wallace purchased the Carl Hagenbeck Circus and incorporated it into his own show forming the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus. [1]
The American Circus Corporation consisted of the Sells-Floto Circus, the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, the John Robinson Circus, the Sparks Circus, and the Al G. Barnes Circus. It was owned by Jerry Mugivan, Bert Bowers and Ed Ballard. They sold the company in 1929 to John Nicholas Ringling for $1.7 million ($30.2 million today). With that ...
It is located in Peru, Indiana, on the former grounds of the Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, also known as the Peru Circus Farm and Valley Farms. The property includes rare surviving circus buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was designated a National Historic Landmark for its historical ...
She had a funeral in Staunton, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Thornrose Cemetery. In 1923 a headstone was erected in her honor, commissioned by Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. [47] According to news coverage after the shooting, Lum Clark and James Richards were never seen again; it was rumored that they both fled to Mexico to avoid ...
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 ...