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  2. Hartford circus fire - Wikipedia

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    A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire and Mystery of Little Miss 1565. Willow Brook Press. ISBN 978-1-930-60124-6. O'Nan, Stuart (2008). The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-48298-3. Skidgell, Michael (2014). The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top. The History ...

  3. Disasters of the Century - Wikipedia

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    Hartford Circus Fire – 6 July 1944 – Of the approximately 9000 attendees, some 700 were injured and 168 were killed when the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus tent went up in flames during an afternoon performance in Hartford CT. The new tent, the largest tent in the world at the time, had been waterproofed with a mixture of ...

  4. List of circus fires - Wikipedia

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    Hartford circus fire, July 6, 1944 in Connecticut; Niterói circus fire, December 17, 1961 in Brazil; Bangalore circus fire, February 7, 1981 in India; See also.

  5. List of disasters in the United States by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Including 23 deaths from a bus fire during evacuations in Wilmer, Texas [28] 119-120 [29] [30] 1863 New York City draft riots: Riot: New York City, New York: $1–5 million (1863) It was the worst civil unrest in modern U.S. history. Required diverting Union Army troops from the front to put down. 119 1924 Benwood mine disaster: Accident ...

  6. List of circus accidents - Wikipedia

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    The tent of Venus Circus in Bangalore, India caught fire on February 8, 1981. [21] The cause remains unknown, but the fire quickly swept across the tent which then came crashing down onto the crowd of about 4,000. Those who didn't survive were either burned or trampled to death. [22] The disaster claimed 92 lives and injured 300. [23]

  7. Category:Circus fires - Wikipedia

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    Hartford circus fire; N. Niterói circus fire This page was last edited on 14 October 2024, at 15:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New ...

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    Subway surveillance images show Sebastian Zapeta-Calil leaving the car as the woman burns to death. Surely, someone would have thrown their coat over her, ran to look for water, screamed at her to ...

  9. List of building or structure fires - Wikipedia

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    1184 – Lightning causes a fire at McDermott's Castle, Ireland, with 120–140 deaths. [1] 1190 – Fire at ... July 6 – Hartford Circus fire in Hartford ...