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Hammond Circus Train Wreck

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Hammond Circus Train Wreck

The Hammond Circus Train Wreck occurred on June 22, 1918, and was one of the worst train wrecks in US history. Eighty-six people were reported to have died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his train into the rear of another near Hammond, Indiana. However, graves are numbered as high as "Unknown Male #61" and "Unknown Female #43", for a total of 104 deaths.

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