April 25, 2011 Fire at Circus in Connecticut
06 Jul 1944, Hartford, Connecticut, USA — Survivors watch as smoke rises from the the big main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, in Hartford, Connecticut, which went up in flames causing the deaths of 127 people with many more injured. At left is the menagerie tent which escaped destruction. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
