Show CI CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED two Sixty Meet Death When Accident Occurs in Indiana Gar Gary Ind Sixt two Sixty two Sixty two persons were were killed and injured Saturday as a n result of a rear-end rear collision between I an emp empty troop hOOl train composed of Pullman Pullman Pull Pull- man cars and a n Wallace circus train on the Michigan Central railroad five miles west of Gm Gary Virtually Virtually Vir Vir- all nil victims were members of the circus The empty troop train traveling down own a n straight stretch of or track totally total total- ly 9 demolished three of the flimsy circus circus circus cir cir- cir cir- cus coaches and badly damaged a fourth According to reports to local a authorities authorities author author- thor thor- the circus train which c carried four sleepers five fi stock cars g fifteen flat cars and a caboose pulled part partway partway way Into a switch and stalled there A set fuses as a warning The circus train was In this position when the troop train plowed into the sleepers sleep sleep- ers reducing them to a pile of tangled steel and timbers Fire enge engendered dered by bythe bythe bythe the gas lighting system of f the circus train broke out almost Immediately and when rescuers re reached ched the time scene the entire wreckage was In flames llames |