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Re: The Hartford Circus Fire -- July 6, 1944
Interesting side note: Actor and "Match Game" panelist Charles Nelson Riley (who is deceased) was at the circus in that fatal day when he was about 13. I forgot where I heard it from but he has mentioned it in interviews.
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03-30-2013, 06:40 PM
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Re: The Hartford Circus Fire -- July 6, 1944
Came across this girl on another site (has to do with true crime and matching up unidentified bodies with missing peeps) and was always confused as to why she was never identified because her face isn't badly burned at all. I could understand if the center of her face was charred, but it's just a little on her cheek. The rest of her family must have died in the fire. That's the only explanation. |
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05-25-2013, 05:36 AM
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Re: The Hartford Circus Fire -- July 6, 1944
It's also possible that her family claimed another body by mistake, before she was brought in. This is known to have happened in at least one other case. A book was written insisting that the girl was Emily Cook, who died in the fire but whose body was never identified. Afterwards the Cook family did claim the body, though they continued to question the ID (the girl's teeth, hair, and height didn't match Emily's). Seems likely Emily was misidentified and buried under another girl's name, and it was simpler to bury this girl as Emily rather than trying to sort out the mess so long after the fact. |
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08-13-2013, 05:32 AM
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Re: The Hartford Circus Fire -- July 6, 1944
In 1991, body #1565 was declared to be Miss Eleanor Cook. She was exhumed from Northwood Cemetery and buried at Center Cemetery in Southampton, Massachusetts next to her brother, Edward Cook.
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08-15-2013, 09:51 PM
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Re: The Hartford Circus Fire -- July 6, 1944
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-..._1_circus-fire Tells of the eventual matching of ID and how her mother was in the hospital for 6 months after the fire. |
