Ep 130 - Come One, Come All!: The Hammond Circus Train Wreck
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Today, we explore Circuses of the early 1900s - a not-great-for-animals menagerie of tricks and oddities. Benjamin Wallace was one of the greats out of Indiana and, by 1918, had cashed out while his Circus kept going via two giant trains full of performers, animals, and equipment. After getting through The Great Flood of 1913 and the second worst circus train crash of all time, the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train was slammed into at 4 am in Hammond, Indiana. Many people died in the ensuing fire and were buried at Woodlawn Cemetary in Chicago at 'Showmen's Rest' a 750-acre plot procured by Buffalo Bill Cody.
We also tell a few Chicago specific ghost stories just for fun!
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