Unknown Male #40 - Forest Park, IL
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N 41° 51.040 W 087° 49.110
16T E 432055 N 4633520
One of the dozen of unknown victims of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train wreck.
Waymark Code: WM6GB6
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 05/30/2009
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A mass grave of about 60 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred. They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918 at Ivanhoe, Indiana (about 5 1/2 miles east of Hammond, Indiana), when an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train from Detroit, Michigan to Chicago, Illinois piloted by an engineer who had fallen asleep, plowed into their circus train. Services were held five days after the train wreck. The identity of many victims of the wreck was unknown. Most of the markers note "unidentified male" (or female). One is marked "Smiley," another "Baldy," and "4 Horse Driver."
Burial Location: Woodlawn Cemetery
Available Times for Viewing: 8-5
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