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Alton Evening Telegraph June 22, 1918
46 KILLED IN RAILROAD WRECK
Army Supply Train Collides With Circus Train at Ivanhoe, Ind.
By United Press Gary Ind., June 22
At least 46 persons were killed and over 100 injured in a wreck of a circus train of the Wallace-Hagenback circus, at Ivanhoe today, which was run into by a Michigan Central train carrying army equipment. The wreck occurred at daylight at Ivanhoe. The circus train stopped for a hot box. The equipment train was running about 30 miles an hour. The engine tore its way through almost the entire length of the circus train. There were 24 cars in the circus train derailed and practically every person on it was either killed or injured. Four Pullman cars on the rear end of the circus train were telescoped. One hundred and fifty circus employes were aboard the train.
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