A Mass Grave Holds These Circus Performers. They're Buried Together for a Tragic Reason - CircusTalk

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A Mass Grave Holds These Circus Performers. They’re Buried Together for a Tragic Reason

Showmen’s Rest is a mass burial of clowns, trapeze artists, and other circus performers. The wandering families of entertainers were members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. They worked together, lived together, and sadly in 1918, they perished together in one of the worst train wrecks in history.

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