Today in 1918 A total of 86 passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed, another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Ind. Five days later the dead are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Ill., in an area set aside as Showmen’s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen’s League of America.
The Association of Retired Members held their Summer Party August 21, 2014 at the UAW Hall in Baltimore. Photos are available for viewing here. – Photos/Teamsters Joint Council 62
