The Clowns Began to Weep After a Speeding Train Ripped Through Their Caravan, Killing 86 of Circus Performers. Revisiting the Hammond Circus Train Wreck of 1918
When an exhausted engineer falls asleep at the throttle, his high-speed troop train plows into a stalled circus train in the dead of night, igniting a hellish inferno that traps and consumes sleeping performers aboard the doomed antique coaches.
