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The Hartford circus fire, which occurred on July 6, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, ... and that Segee was the arsonist. Before writing the book, Davey spent six ...
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy is a 2000 non-fiction book by Stewart O'Nan. It is about the deadly Hartford circus fire of 1944. [1] References
Hartford circus fire, July 6, 1944 in Connecticut; Niterói circus fire, December 17, 1961 in Brazil; ... The circus fire : a true story. New York: Doubleday.
When he researched The Circus Fire, he advertised in The Hartford Courant and received many answers to his request for interviews with survivors of the Hartford Circus fire. [ 13 ] In the spring of 2005 O'Nan spoke at the Lucy Robbins Welles Library in Newington, Connecticut , as the featured author in its One Book, 4 Towns program.
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]
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On July 6, 1944, Hartford was the scene of one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire, which occurred at a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, became known as the Hartford Circus Fire.
The novel contains discussions of various disasters, including the RMS Titanic, the Hartford circus fire, the Hindenburg disaster, the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, the Boston Molasses Disaster, and, almost as prominently as the Titanic, the sinking of the USS Yorktown.