April 25, 2011 Circus Tent on Fire
06 Jul 1944, Hartford, Connecticut, USA — 7/6/1944-Hartford, CT- As flames consumed the huge “big top”, smoke can be seen at top of photo of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus this afternoon. People flee in terror from the menagerie tent (foreground). Some 10,000 persons- mostly women and children watching the performance in the big mig main tent, were tossed into milling, screaming panic as flames consumed the tent over them more than 127 are dead tonight — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
