At about 4:30 a.m., the Walter L. Main Great Circus Train ran out of control descending Tyrone Mountain, shot over a curve, and wrecked at McCann's Crossing in one of the greatest circus train wrecks in history. All but the sleeping cars left the track, and most of the crew in the derailed cars were killed. A field hospital was set up where the school now stands to care for the injured. Local residents joined the hunt for wild animals that escaped into the countryside and mountains. A Bengal tiger later shot bounded over a fence at a nearby farm where Hannah Friday was milking a cow; Hannah escaped, but the tiger killed the cow. Seventy-two horses were killed or injured in the wreck, and all the animals that were not shot were eventually accounted for, except the snakes, which were never recovered. A memorial was held at the wreck site, and afterward people in Tyrone opened their homes to the grief-stricken circus members. In appreciation, the circus bands played concerts every evening throughout the summer, and the circus reorganized with new wagons, acts, horses, and other animals on East 12th Street in Tyrone.