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.