Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Hagenbeck-Wallace #6


Scan12669, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Someone wrote on the back:
H.W. Circus wreck in Michigan 1915 or '16.

The Michigan train wreck was in 1903.
From the style of dress I'd say this was the 1918 Hammond, Indiana tragedy.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 3/09/2010 05:39:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I doubt it's 1918, that tragedy involved sleepers, not a horse car as seen in the photo.

Harry Bowman listed a HW wreck at Big Rapids, Michigan in 1907.

HW had a wreck at Ann Arbor, Michigan on May 28, 1917. The big bandwagon and calliope were lost when the RRs banged two sections together.

09 March, 2010 08:41
Anonymous said...

The Michigan circus train wreck of 1903 was at Durand Michigan. On August 6, 1903 the second section of the Great Wallace Bros. Circus plowed into the back of the first section which had stopped in Durand. The show was on its way from Charlotte Michigan to Lapeer, Michigan when the air brakes failed on section two.Some animals succumed, but the human travelers took the brunt of the collision. It killed 21 circus folks and 3 Railroad employees. Some of the dead are buried in Lovejoy Cemetery where a memorial obelisk was erected. The cemetery is 2 miles south of Durand, and then 1/2 mile west to Prior Road.

20 March, 2010 01:31
adeline said...

Buckles,

Can you help me fill in some holes for my research on the Wallace Train wreck of 1903 in Durand Michigan?

05 July, 2013 19:20
Buckles said...

I couldn't add any more than the comments above.

05 July, 2013 19:51

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