Charlie O'Brien , Circus Vargas ' owner , encounters an elderly man named Jacob Jankowski , who is separated from his nursing home group . The two strike up a conversation and Jacob reveals he had a career in the circus business and was present during one of the most infamous circus disasters of all time , equal in seriousness to the 1944 Hartford circus fire and the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wreck
Hartford circus fire
Hartford circus fire
Water for Elephants (film)