Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

Author Richard M. Lytle is still surprised by how many Northwest Indiana residents have never heard of "the great circus train wreck of 1918" in Hammond. FYI: The book also is available at local ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Jared Daughenbaugh gets help from his son, Brodie, 3, laying the wreath at the 130 year anniversary of the Walter L. Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday ...

FOREST PARK, Ill. — The truth about the Showmen's Rest section of Woodlawn Cemetery is violent, heart-wrenching and touching — it needs no embellishing, it's interesting enough. But that didn't ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered one of the worst train wrecks in history in 1918, with more than 100 people injured and 86 killed. Wikimedia Commons The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wasn’t the ...

Each year, from 1927 until the early ’90s, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train could be counted on to bring the greatest show on earth to towns all across America. The caravan was ...

NASHUA – The Greatest Show on Earth was nothing more than an amusing distraction when it passed through the city Wednesday. A Ringling Bros. Circus freight train carrying animals and all sorts of gear ...

I'm getting a lot of emails and messages on Facebook today and the last few days about this, so here's the latest on the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus train heading into Raleigh tonight. I ...

Fire heavily damaged several former circus train cars that the N.C. Department of Transportation was storing in the woods in Nash County. Nash County Sheriff's Office Fire broke out Thursday on a ...