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 ...

Main circus train wreck in Vail on Wednesday morning. VAIL — Local historian Susan O’Brien recited a mountain of facts Wednesday during a service commemorating the 1893 Walter L. Main Circus ...

A memorial service for the five people killed in the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 will be held next week. The service marking the 130th anniversary of the derailment will be held at ...

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 ...