Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Showmens_Rest> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 60 of
60
with 100 triples per page.
- Showmens_Rest abstract "Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where a mass grave where between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred. They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Ivanhoe, Indiana, (about 51⁄2 miles east of Hammond, Indiana), when an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train from Detroit, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, plowed into their circus train. The engineer of the troop train, Alonzo Sargent, had fallen asleep. Among the dead were Arthur Dierckx and Max Nietzborn of the "Great Dierckx Brothers" strong man act and Jennie Ward Todd of "The Flying Wards".The Showmen's League of America, formed in 1913 with Buffalo Bill Cody as its first president, had recently selected and purchased the burial land in Woodlawn Cemetery at the intersection of Cermak Road and Des Plaines Avenue in Forest Park, Illinois, for its members. Services were held five days after the train wreck. The identity of many victims of the wreck was unknown. Most of the markers note "unidentified male" (or female). One is marked "Smiley," another "Baldy," and "4 Horse Driver."The Showmen's Rest section of Woodlawn Cemetery is still used for burials of deceased showmen who are said to be performing now at the biggest of the Big Tops. A Memorial Day service is held at Woodlawn Cemetery every year.Other Showmen's Rests include one at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hugo, Oklahoma. Hugo is a winter circus home which calls itself Circus City, USA. In Miami, Florida, the largest Showmen's Rest is at Southern Memorial Park where large elephant and lion statues flank hundreds of markers commemorating circus greats and not-so-greats. Tampa, Florida's Showmen's Rest is located close to the Greater Tampa Showmen's Association near downtown.".
- Showmens_Rest thumbnail ShowmensRestStatue.jpg?width=300.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageExternalLink booksid=JyAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA53&ots=IRwMjwDW5f&dq=%22showmens%20rest%22%20%22memorial%20park%22%20%22st%20louis%22&pg=PA53.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageExternalLink showmensrest.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageExternalLink id82.html.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageExternalLink showmens-rest.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageID "1851793".
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageLength "4597".
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageOutDegree "26".
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageRevisionID "675720518".
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Alonzo_Sargent.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Brookfield_Zoo.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_Bill.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_Bill_Cody.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cemeteries_in_Cook_County,_Illinois.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Category:Circuses.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Cermak_Road.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Chicago,_Illinois.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Circus_City,_USA.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Circus_train.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Detroit.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Detroit,_Michigan.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Elephant.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Forest_Park,_Illinois.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Hagenbeck-Wallace_Circus.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Hammond,_Indiana.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Hammond_Circus_Train_Wreck.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Hammond_circus_train_wreck.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Hugo,_Oklahoma.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Ivanhoe,_Indiana.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Lion.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink List_of_United_States_cemeteries.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink List_of_cemeteries_in_the_United_States.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Memorial_Day.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Miami.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Miami,_Florida.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Michigan_Central_Railroad.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Monroe,_Wisconsin.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_&_Bailey_Circus.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Ringling_Brothers_and_Barnum_and_Bailey_Circus.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink Tampa,_Florida.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLink File:ShowmensRestStatue.jpg.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageWikiLinkText "Showmen's Rest".
- Showmens_Rest hasPhotoCollection Showmens_Rest.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord_missing.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Find_a_Grave.
- Showmens_Rest wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Frac.
- Showmens_Rest subject Category:Cemeteries_in_Cook_County,_Illinois.
- Showmens_Rest subject Category:Circuses.
- Showmens_Rest hypernym Section.
- Showmens_Rest type Settlement.
- Showmens_Rest comment "Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois, is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where a mass grave where between 56 and 61 employees of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were interred. They were killed in the Hammond circus train wreck on June 22, 1918, at Ivanhoe, Indiana, (about 51⁄2 miles east of Hammond, Indiana), when an empty Michigan Central Railroad troop train from Detroit, Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois, plowed into their circus train.".
- Showmens_Rest label "Showmen's Rest".
- Showmens_Rest sameAs m.061037.
- Showmens_Rest sameAs Q7503280.
- Showmens_Rest sameAs Q7503280.
- Showmens_Rest wasDerivedFrom Showmens_Restoldid=675720518.
- Showmens_Rest depiction ShowmensRestStatue.jpg.
- Showmens_Rest isPrimaryTopicOf Showmens_Rest.