1918: Eighty-six passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus are killed in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. 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.
1922: Violence erupted during a coal mine strike at Herrin, Ill. Thirty-six were killed, 21 of them non-union miners.
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