| Show TERRIBLE WRECK ON BIG f FOUR SOUR NEAR INDIANAPOLIS t Fit teen n Badly Hadly Mangled Victims k n From the t e t Ruins of an Excursion Jn Train Ll r c af a ln ne e b M Players Player r v Death 1 iI I Ii i jt c r nil kI r rI 3 t AP t i I il a Jd a ter I fifty tainted some ome fatally at 18 in n a n between a special pas ps w train tram on the Big BI Four railroad and nd a freight engine en ne with a train of off it f al tar car The accident happened in int Inthe inthe t the e edge of this t s city The passenger is t sin ala of twelve twelve coaches was wu carrying Bui t prima nearly all of whom were e en student n ta of or Perdue Purdue university and their f tri friends r tend from Lafayette to Indianapolis for fur the annual football foot game between I tine tile Purdue team and the Indiana uni univ v squad quad for the state cham lon which was Wall to have been fought I this afternoon In the tile Mat first coach bock back ck c of the engine were the tM Purdue football 1 t 1 tam am substitute players play and managers Three T nippers the tile assistant coach the 1 ana ia nd c seven Hven substitute players I II of 0 the Ute university were killed and aDel every everyone one oDe of the ue other ether persons la fa lat t tile flu e oat car were re either fatally or seriously Injured The Dead cI Charles Grube Butler tIeP lad 14 substitute tutu tute player Oharles Shari 1 Purr V lad Ind guard I 1114 t tI assist t I In K L I C Robertson Indianapolis not n a at coach and ami captain of team two raga W Walter Wallet I 1 Roush RO g Pa suba sub b a I R 1 Z well II c Tex f e nd id player pier W D Hamilton tOD TM M cen eft cent t r rush roan I IG Gabriel G 8 Dot li Lafayette lad DIlL ladE E substitute aa ua r dl lad Ind ladr M r Jay Ja Hamilton B lad aIL sub subE it E t tit N TS R Howard Lafayette LafaYete lad Ind president pres P I J ident lent of the Indiana La as Samuel Ind s tit titO Q O L 1 Shaw Lafayette Ind Bert Woe Rice Spencer lad Ind substitute J 3 C Co Coates Coatee Berwin Pa List of Injured Of the Ute fifty atty one persona person Injured J In III Inthe th the wreck are hart t nearly all having broken I rca honea They are as follows J r R lb 0 O OFt sub It Ft Ut Hut halfback on Purdue team frac t cut and brutal bruiser bra bratt serious tt Sim Miller Ninevah Ind sad end on team ream both leg legs n C 4 W v N Philadelphia halfback f M nd teem t em left shoulder Li k n and st several v era ral ribs broken brOke K E H S Renn c on Purdue team a both legs leg J Broken cut and bruised brul ed edW serous serious W W Taggart Tar at Owen Oen lad Ind tackle MI III team arm broken and Ia ia about head Dan OBrien Syracuse N T Y Tri TI guard ri rn I g rub team eam Purdue left leg brOI a Hendricks Johnston Evansville lad Ind on Purdue team both leer lex crushed shoulder houlder broken broke Tery t f er foils rious U IA I K F Jo Rush T harry Darry arr Station Pa mem member memi ber o of f n scrub rub team both legs broken i R F f ll rious loUF UP earl ari arl Wilmo f Winchester Ind bro lIOn MI 1 gs 86 suffering from sho k cal il al alJ J H Mou 1110 i 1 n v y Chambersburg Pa PaC C J on un team left leg crushed Louie Loui Smith Eat Kart La Fayette Ind Indu on t riu u 11 injured about heal henl onti II nIl r uc u I IA A 1 I L Ho Hot Hor HoIr r t 0 O halfback rn r n team let leg leti le untied Tuh i d skull fractured I V i s 11 rous rlou Harry Adams Adam transport Frankfort Ind sub wb subr r II II lilt halfback on team left ankle fl i furs tut cu wild ind ribs broken t W N Y l Peoria Ill rl ri t jinn ir c r Hiss S broken ribs w khol Pi left lift 1 til silkier iru bc l C a 1 v E S J W IA La Lai ayr e Loo T text t f faylor at La lay layette ette crushed and aad broken broke anus anna Harry Hairy Van Tuyl Indianapolis Big BIc Foal Four fireman a man left eft ankle broker broken I Skull Jha nal r r W R IL Butler of the base baR of the skull may y die Maurice Steele Canton 0 O badly I and an cut William McManus Davenport Dayenport la Ia substitute tackle on Purdue teat team both bothIe legs Ie broken C O 0 Tau eman Cincinnati several fractures serious may die J N Knapp Evansville Ind half halfback halfbaCk halfback back on Purdue team dislocated knee William Bailey Balle New Richmond Ind substitute end on Purdue team several broken ribs C I Wells Well Butler Ind substitute I arm ann broken and bruises bru John Henderson Indianapolis assist assistant assistant ant Bin Big Pour Four fireman internal injuries inJun Injuries ries n and bruises D H Loog Louisville Ky Kyt end encl of or Purdue team am cut about abo t head bead and body left leg crushed cru I I 18 8 Osborne oborne Dover 0 O captain of I team left len leg fractured D I M x t Allen Alien AJ n La Fayette Ind lad tackle on team bruised brul ed about head and body 3 J M Rush R New Castle Ind lad nose broken Woken bruised braised about head and aAd body I H O 0 Wright substitute tackle on team Injuries to spine and left leg broken j Dr prA A W Bitting BI La Fayette state sta te experimental physician dislocated hip Alp cut about boUt head bead d I Volney Ray RaJ La Porte Ind c cot t and bruised about the body y Walter S 3 w member of ot team cut and bruised WG ed Oliver OU F p Cutts coach of Purdue left Jett leg injured W F JI r Cottar Cedat law jaw broken brakes left eta leg Jer injured L I 1 E Irwin IrwI polie Big Poor Four fireman bruised and aAd et eats etO O 0 C Wright Marion lad Ind left heft leg broken head liend I cut ut Maurice Rish Raab JU h Pittsburg Pa scalp call II wounds Joy Turned braid to Sorrow borrow From FroIO the u twelve coaches were were com coin coming lug ing the cries s of a thousand thou ad rooters for Purdue ue clad in gala pia dress cIn with colors Glore streaming while in th t front coach Qa sat twenty Ien great muscular cular fellows trained to the tM hour lour on whom the hopes bope of a brilliant Jiana victory on the gridiron were coif d Uy placed On Oft rounding round Iq a J curve at the Ute Eighteenth street cut cart Engineer ED W H II found fouad directly in front At of him th UI the I freight satin De and opal cars moving lowly from fro a switch leading 1 to a awI trawl gravel wI pit He applied the tile air aJr re rc reversed versed Ms kM engine ne and ad jumped J jum ed edThe The PM else rafa hurled burled the die passenger er en engine engine gine and three titres t front t coached against tuat mod coa scat scatA I A bU h pile of df t weigh e dr i tog leg slats ton toils W tally fully sixty tty houma be beings bel lags ings The 11 car In which Ieh were weN the play f err eni was Wall completely demolished the roof being belli torn away awa and aDd falling across acron a a car r of o coal while the body of the car was WM reduced to kindling wood j I against ag nat the side of the Ute steel freight car The TIle second coach containing a abrass 1 t brass band was as partly telescoped and the third coach wa wu overturned and j I hurled down a embank ment The other coaches did not leave eave J the track President Stone of the uni university university with his hM was waa in the tile fifth coach and was not Injured Heroic Young Women omen Immediately after the tM shock shack ab the passengers pas passengers pa men and women began the work of tearing away way a the wreckage wreck and pulling puW out the dead and dying dl f classmates and friends friend The young yount t women dressed ed in bright colors for tor forthe forthe the holiday performed heroic work Though the bodies were in several ral in instances instances stances horribly mangled man one completely com completely completely and one partially beheaded they took WOk upon their laps the heads of the th II dying and injured and an soothed their sufferings a as beet best they could until the surgeons arrived Their bloodstained II and grimy garments were gloomy wit witnesses witnesses nesses of their heroism I A general alarm was sounded and every assistance that could be afford dord afforded I ed was rushed to the wreck k which was waa three th miles Mika from the business badness con cen conter center ter Surgeons dashed up in automo automobiles biles Fire wagons ambulances ex express express i press wagons wons undertakers vehicles 1 private Tte conveyances slid and even delivery I wagons were sent to carry away the dead and injured While these e were being carried to the morgues and hoe boll hospitals pital the work of ot tearing away way a th the wreck and a rescuing re those pinned binned be beneath beneath beneath neath went on Big stu students stud dents d Jen t to wePt aloud as they stood over the bodies bed of their dead friends and fel rel fellow fellow low ow workers WOlken and helplessly saw w their on oa Page Jp 1 it tIG I C FOUR lEAl Continued from Page Pap One ODe college eoll mates matH writhing In pain To fe I add dd to the horror of the situation the wreckage caught t fire ft but the flames were fore extinguished ed by the students sit alt I Ier Iu er u a bard hard I Many Thrilling Escape There were many thrilling escapes Heapes and an experIences experience eti Among Amone those who bad had ml escapes e pe were n Robert W Wilson Asbury Park N No J W L Ia Robinson Danville Va N l Thixton Louisville io Ky D n Hanson Neb Nob and W V J OBrien OBra Helena Ark Ot Of the injured at least leut twenty cases are re serious A dozen doxen or more IDOre have tave broken bones and in several eases cases there are compound und fractures fracture tra of two and even ven three limbs limb The death list It is to expected to grow ItOW Two of the Injured died after art r being bel lr taken tak to hospitals Of the surviving members member of the foot I ball team who lived ed in all aU parts of the country C W Zimmerman has the thO mus muscles vies cles cI of ot his tala right leg lee torn at the knee kne 1 I Y Long Lone of Louisville Ky K is badly bruised on the head bead F Miller cut on bead Fullback Fu Thomas naomu received a bad bai cut on the right leg I g and McCormack the substitute end was u injured about the legs leg C O 0 TaliSman of Cincinnati s probably fatally injured and is being cared for at the home bome of Dr Cunning ham hau ba T A Bailey of Richmond Ind lad Is bI also In a critical condition SUn Sean Millers MII legs Ie are broken Halfback Knapp cf ct Evansville to Is recovering I Sadness and aBd Sympathy While tie the work of was waa going pine on there arrived arrive in the city over cheering followers of the wed red and white of Indiana university at Banners waved wa ved college yells Us were being hurled burled from the th windows and streamers were displayed C from the windows window of ot the car beating the university football team As A the happy and aid excited students atud I poured from the train news new of the tragedy to the black and gold old of ot Purdue I was w received Instantly all was wa s sand and sympathy The throng melted Into sorrowing groups group that separated to search morgue and hospitals bo tor for friends or 01 took ears eara for tor the scene of oC the wre to lend any aay possible 08 ble aid aidAH All AH day the streets have been filled with silently moving bands band of students But no colors colon were displayed They were I pinned the coats or quietly pat put I aWa away No music mimic sounded from the bane ban that came canoe to help celebrate All AD were I anxiously awaiting news from the tM ln in jud This evening the tra trains rains bore them back leaving lea behind the dead and in injured injured i Death Lit Lift Will Grow araw Surgeons Su eons are still working over the In i lured juNel it Jt is believed the death list will wUl willbe be swelled to tt twenty The wreck has baa been cleared away awa and traffic has bas been re to resumed i President Stone of Purdue baa has established e tab headquarters here bere sad and is an answering hundreds of anxious inquiries from frolD all aU parts part of ot o the country The word woric of getting the home addresses ad of th in injured inJured is i difficult as a the only oDb record is the university record at Lafayette After the announcement of the aban do nt of ot the game today it was wu soc sug suggested that the money collected on ad advance advance advance vance sale Ie of seats will be given to the relatives of the injured who woo are in need DL Governor Durban baa has started a tion lion The governor and other state tate officers hurried to the wreck w k this morning and have ba been busy baa all day assisting In the relief President Ryan of ot Indiana university university sity also hurried to the wreck on arriving lag ing I in the city on the special train from Bloomington and has been helping Pur Pu due officials announced this afternoon that the university would engage In PO no nomore more games P this year coroner Coroner Investigating ng The dead re at the several everal ing lag establIshments establishment Coroner Is at work on Oft an investigation of ot the ac a i HenU ilent Superintendent Van Winkle of the he Big Four said ald tonight he be had not had bad time to Investigate the cause as his h had bad been IH devoted to helping the injured Each engineer says Y he be had the right of track and knew nothing of or the other oth r train The coal train was backing north northward northward ward to one of ot th the s switches I Dr Billinger one of the injured Is state veterinarian aai Ma an a S member of ot ardue Purdue university in ty faculty fact ft im is reported tonight I that t H G 0 Leslie of Lafayette Lafayett of tin tM team cannot ver |
