Sells Town

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Sells Town was a small berg along Ohio’s Scioto River and the birthplace of the Sells Brothers Circus. Set in 1914 when the circus bought out Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show with Annie Oakley and other western stars, they enlisted another huge name in entertainment – Harry Houdini – to attempt an escape from a chained trunk at the bottom of the river. All of three of these great shows were to have occurred on September 4, 1914, but it was not be as one of the most horrendous events in circus history took the lives of 164 children and the elderly and injured 400. A remembrance of that tragic day from a 14-year old boy who was nephew of the circus owners.

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