In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a Train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana.
In the subsequent wreckage and blaze, more than two hundred Circus performers were injured and eighty-six were killed, most of whom were interred in a mass grave in the Showmen\'s Rest section of Chica.
Soon after, the sleeping engineer\'s locomotive plowed into the Circus train.
He drifted to sleep, and his Train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train.
In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a Train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana