Video: 'Circus performers killed in Hammond train crash remembered 100 years later'

(Saturday, June 22, 1918, 4:00 a.m. local time) — A train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus and their families was rear-ended by a troop train today during an emergency stop near Hammond, Indiana, killing at least 86 people aboard the circus train and injuring 127 others.

Investigators concluded Alonzo Sargent, who was at the throttle of the troop train pulled by K80r pacific 8485 with 20 empty Pullman cars, had fallen asleep.