Just before dawn on May 30, 1893, the Walter L. Main circus train carrying dozens of animals and performers ran off the tracks in an epic crash in central Pennsylvania.

None of the 60 circus animals, including lions, tigers and elephants, was hurt. They were traveling in cages at the front and rear of the 53-car train, which broke in the middle.

No one knows where the circus animals that died in an 1893 Pennsylvania train derailment are buried—or where the ones that survived escaped to. AD BY The Daily Beast Published Aug. 15 2015 10 ...

The wreck, at about 5:30 a.m., left a devastating scene of twisted metal, dead and injured circus animals and resulted in the deaths of five people — Barney Multany and William Thomas Lee, two ...

Ms. Engesser, a circus icon, died Monday after battling congestive heart failure. She was 81. She was born into the circus. Her parents were vaudeville performers who owned traveling theater shows.

VAIL – Benches, a pavilion and a new granite marker commemorating the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 were dedicated during a brief ceremony Wednesday morning in the small village of ...

In the center of a great steel-barred arena stood famed young Animal Trainer Clyde Beatty. On all sides his animals closed in on him. Lions, tigers and a black panther leaped forward with claws ...

VAHS, which has donated the Circus Train Car Museum to Sarasota County, maintains and operates the museum, which sits on tracks put in place when the Historic Venice Train Depot was restored in 2003.