The Train Crashed—Then the Circus Animals Vanished
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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.
On the morning of May 30, 1893, a circus train convoy chock full of lions, elephants, and camels fatefully rounded a bend of a rural Pennsylvania mountain.
The conductor was going 40 miles an hour, and the Walter L. Main circus flew off its rails.
Fourteen of its 17 cars tumbled down a 30-foot ravine, piling on top of each other. Hundreds of animals streamed out and into the surrounding forest.