The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters by Henry S. Cohn, David Bollier

The Great Hartford Circus Fire: Creative Settlement of Mass Disasters

Henry S. Cohn, David Bollier

236 pages first pub 1991 (view editions)

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On July 6, 1944, The Big Top suddenly caught fire at a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Hartford, Connecticut. The inferno killed 169 people, mostly women and children, and injured more than 550 others. Faced with hundr...

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