We are responding to readers’ requests to get more history articles in the paper, so this is one of those stories. It is about the Campbell Bros. Circus fire that happened in Pawnee City in 1904.
The Campbell Brothers Virgil, Charlie, Al, and Ed started the circus in Galesburg, Ill. In 1883. In 1885, they began to winter at Fairbury, Nebraska.
They were billed as the largest collection of animals in…