Costco to Host Book Signing for The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918 Author

Richard M. Lytle will be available to sign copies of pictorial history
 
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. - Dec. 5, 2014 - PRLog -- In the cool, pre-dawn hours on a June night in 1918, a train engineer closed his cab window as he chugged toward Hammond, Indiana. He drifted to sleep, and his train bore down on the idle Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train. Soon after, the sleeping engineer’s locomotive plowed into the circus train.

In the subsequent wreckage and blaze, more than two hundred circus performers were injured and eighty-six were killed, most of whom were interred in a mass grave in the Showmen’s Rest section of Chicago’s Woodlawn Cemetery.

Join local historian Richard Lytle as he recounts, in the fullest retelling to date, the details of this tragedy and its role in the overall evolution and demise of a unique entertainment industry.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:
 Costco


1310 E. 79th Avenue, Merrillville, IN 46410

When:  Saturday, December 13th, 2014; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through The History Press at 866-457-5971 or www.historypress.net

The History Press, based in Charleston, South Carolina, brings a new way of thinking to history publishing by producing regional history titles by excellent historians and striving to make these books available to a wide audience.

The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918

by Richard M. Lytle

112 pages/ softcover

Published: July 2010
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