VAIL -- Local historian Susan O'Brien recited a mountain of facts Wednesday during a service commemorating the 1893 Walter L. Main Circus Train wreck just outside Tyrone. O'Brien, who has made about ...

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is America’s longest-running circus company. It began performances in the early 1890s. More than a century later, the company maintains many of the traditions of ...

When the circus came to town in Great Falls a century ago, people paid attention. There were no radio broadcasts yet to distract them. When the circus arrived in the Electric City 60 years ago, before ...

During the early hours of June 22, 1918, a locomotive with a sleeping engineer at its controls plowed into the back of a circus train near Gary, Ind., smashing through cars filled with sleeping ...

In 1918, outside Hammond, Indiana, a train accident took the lives of 86 circus performers. Many of the dead were never identified. Playwright Jay Torrence memorialized the horrific event with his ...