Trainwrecks of 1918 part 2

Alaina returns to her most recent topic to make good on her promise. This episode is about a third great train wreck in the summer of 1918, one that destroyed a circus train. We cover the history of that particular circus, its founder's previous attractions, the wreck itself, and what remains to commemorate it.

Links!

• People displayed in Hagenbeck's "human zoo" 
• The Diary of Abraham Ulrikab
• First Zoo Without Bars Celebrates its Centenary
• Group Photo of Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Performers
• Supreme Court opinions on Bleistein v Donaldson Lithographing Company
• Pictures of wreckage
• Lake County Times coverage of wreck
• Picture of mass burial 
• Pictures of Showmen's Rest
• "Unknown Male" Gravestone
• International Circus Hall of Fame
• ABC 7 Chicago's coverage of the 100th anniversary 

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