The Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck killed 86 and injured 127 on June 22, 1918, near Hammond, Ind. The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus had just finished two shows in Michigan City, Ind., and was ...

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 ...

Circus entertainers and workers from around the U.S. gathered outside Chicago to mark the centennial of a 1918 train crash that killed 86 members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.

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.

At about 4 a.m., the circus train had come to a stop on the tracks in Hammond, Ind. Most of the train had switched to a different track, but four sleeper cars sat on the mainline.

PERU, Ind. (AP) -- An old circus wagon built and housed in northern Indiana has been featured in an Illinois ceremony for a century-old train crash that killed 86 performers.

Trekking home again about 10 p.m., they could not have imagined that only a few hours after loading animals and equipment onto the circus train, the tired workers would be engulfed in flames.