Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-11-01 | Page 1 | Passenger Train On the Big Four in Frightful Wreck

PASSENGER TRAiN ON THE BIG FOUR IN fRIGHTfUL WRECK Long List of Dead and Fearfully I Fear-fully Manglecl SOME ONE MADE BLUNBER S1udons 1 atd ErIends I on Way J ol h 1 Il1 a n Indiana Special Crashed Iritb Coal Trainand Changed College Joys i to Tears and Lamenitatibns J i l Indianapolis i Ind Oct 31 Fifteen persons word killed andover fifty Injured In-jured sonic fatally at 1020 ins in-s collision I between a special 1 pas pen ger train 111 the BIg Four railroad and a freight engine with a cut of coal cars 4 calsSrUD1 rrS AND FRIEND The accident happened in the edge of this city The passenger Iraln of twelve coaches wus carrying IJ1 1 persons per-sons nearly all of whom were students of Purdue university and their friends from Lafayette to Indianapolis for the annual football game belween the Pur due learn and 1 the Indiana university squad for the Slate championship which was to have been origin this afternoon In the first coach hack of the cnirine were the Purdue football team substitute players and managers manag-ers KILLED AND INJURED Three players the assistant coach trainer and seven substituteplayers oJ the university were killed and everyone every-one of the fiftythree other persons In the car were either fatally or seriously injured Following Is a list oC the dead DEAD Charles Groubc Butler Tnd substitute substi-tute aler Charles Purr Veedersburg Ind i guard E C Robertson Indianapolis assistant assist-ant coach and captain of thcteam two years ago Walter L Rousi h PlttKburg Pa substitute I i EL J Powell Corpus Chhstl I Tex end player V D Hamilton Bridgetown ill center nifh Gabriel 1 S Dollinger Lafayette Jiui substitute Samuel Squibb Lawrenceburg I ml substitute Jay Hamilton Huntington Intl sub stiluie I Continued on Page s 1 WREiK O 3 FOU Continued I I i from I a gu IIi X I-Ii Howard I Lafnytlte Tad president presi-dent of the Indiana I Liiumlrymens UH MMIatinn Patrick MciMair fhicaco trainer Samuel Trull l Xoblesvllle 1ml 1 substitute sub-stitute 1 L i hinu Lalayello Ind I Her Price Spencer Ind I Kuhslltutc 1 C Tonic Riirwln Pit Of the fiftyone persons Injurod In tho t wreck thirtynine I I aro serlnusy hurt nearly all having broken bones They are tia follows SEIUOUSLY iiunr J IL Whlteliead Monelora O sub stiluti halfback on Purdue team fracture frac-ture cut and bruised serious Shun Miller Isin vah Ind i end on Purdue team both legs crushed serious O V V Nichols Philadelphia halfback half-back second Purdue team left shoulder shoul-der broken and several ribs broken TO u K Mills JJenssilter substitute ciuarlerback on its ttl ti C loam both I less broken cut and bruised serious V W Tasgart Owen hid tackle on scrub team I arm broken and Injured In-jured about head Dan Olirlen Syrmuse X Y guard on scrub team Purdue left lug broken Hendrlcks Tohnston TSvansvlllp Ind quarierbaek on Jur Juc team both legs crushed shoulder broken very serious L E Push IDarry Station Pa member mem-ber scrub team both legs broken seriouy Carl AVilmore Viiichic tom I nil broken legs snfierlns from shock critical t J II I Mowrcy ClmmberHburg Pa halfback on team left leg crushed Louis Smith I East Lafayette Ind i center on team injured about head and spine serious A Iy Holler Obcrlin O halfback on team legs crushed skull fractured serious ITnrry Adams Frankfort lad substitute sub-stitute halfback on loam left ankle fractured and ribs broken It W UtisterhoHe P orla Jll president presi-dent iunlor class Purdue broken ribs G c V Nichols Philadelphia left shoulder crushed E W Frank Lnfuyctle Jnd J left hip broken rohn r Taylor drayinun at Lafay elte h chest crUHhed I fractured skull I and broken arms serinus Harry Van Tuyl Indianapolis I Big Four fireman kTl anklo broken V R Butler Pittsburr fracture of the base of the skull may die Maurice Steele Canton 0 badly bruised and cut William MeMnnus Davenport 7a substitute tackle on litrui ute team both le broken hogs I C O Tatmemau Cinclnnali siveral fractures serious may dies J j N JCnapp livansvlllc huh halfback half-back cm Purdue team dislocated knee AVilliam Ualloy Kew Richmond Ind substitute end on Purdue team several broken ribs C1 H Y Vells Buller Ind substitute fullback I arm broken nnd bruises John Henderson Indianapolis assistant assist-ant lug Four fireman internal injuries and bruises D 31 Loctf Louisville Ty end on Purdui team cut about head and m body left le crushed T S OHborne Dover O captain of team left lei fractured D M r Allen Lufayette Ind tackle on team bruised about t head and body J Il i Rush Newcastle Ind nose broken brluaud about head amid body II O WrIght substliutu tackle on learn injuries to spine and left leg broken Dr A VV iii I hug Lafayette Slate ecperimeiual I physician dislocated hip cut about head Volnoy Ray La Porte Ind cut and biuised about body Walter Sprav member of team cut and bruised Oliver F Cults coach of Purdue left leg Injured v F Collar Jnw broken loft leg Injured In-jured L TO Irwin Indianapolis ig Four fireman bruises and cuts O C WrlKhl Marlon Ind left leg broken head cut Maurice Hush Plttsbursr Pa scnlp wounds JOT TURNED TO TEARS From the twelve coaches were coming com-ing the cries of a i thousand movers for Purdue clad in gala drew with color 5t roaming I while In I tho front coach sat twenty great imiFculnr fellow trained I to the hour on whom the hoKs of n brilliant I victory on the I gridiron wore conlldently placed Rounding a curve at ihu I Eighteenth fctnvt t cut Engineer Engi-neer Yv II Schumnlcrr found directly In front of him the freight engine the frciht ciiKlno and coal I cars moving i slowly from a switch lending to a gravel pit Ho reversed Ills engine and Jumped The craih hurled the pashenger en pine and three t front I coaches against ih I steel freight cars loaded with coal Hint I plowed their way through I and burled under a pile of wreckage weighing weigh-ing I many < ma fully sixty human beings be-ings MASS OF WHECKACE The first car In which wero the players play-ers wax completely demolished lhi > rocif boing torn avjy and falling across a car of coal while the body of the cor was reduced to kindling wood against the side nf the steel freight oar The fecund coach containing sm brasy band was partly i telescoped t and the I 1 third I coach was overturned and hurled down a fifteenfool embankment The other Ranches did not leave the I rack President Pres-ident I Stone of the university with his family was In I the fifth coach and war nol injured IIOrmiULY MANGLED Immediately I ritcr I he shock tin t iuuuu sengciv men and women began iso t frantic work of tearing away the wreckage wreck-age and pulling out the dead and dying classmate and friends The young women dressed In bright colors for the holiday performcd heroic work Though the bodies wero in I sevral Instances In-stances horribly mangled one completely com-pletely and one partially beheaded they look upon their r laps the heads of the t dying and inUied and soothed their sufferings as best lliey could until the surgeons arrived Their bloodstained and grimy garments were gloomy witnesses wit-nesses of their heroism STRONG MEN VISEP A general alarm was souncld and cvcry assistance they could afford was rushed to the wreck which was tlnco mlluH from the buflne ccnUr Surgeons Sur-geons dashed up In automobile Flic wagons ambulances express wagons undertakers vehicles private conveyances convey-ances and even delivery ungoits were sent lo carry away the dciui arid injured in-jured While these wore boiuj carried to I the I morgues and hospitals the work of tearing nwav the wreck and rescuing rescu-ing thofe I Ilnnrd beneath I went on P ig imiprular sit iiclesst wept aloud IK ihiv t stood over tiio both Iusu of llielr I dead I frienda and m MInvworkers nnd help ejjj = ly faw their I I collcgcmals wrltlilnjr I I In I pain I Add lo t lie horror of the t yii miii t lois iso I wreckage raushLflro t but thu I ila taos were extinguished 1y 1 thus slu deuts utftcu i a hard fight THRILLING ESCAPES There many thrilling escapes and ex IKriencus l Amonz tlosr I wbr > had miraculous mi-raculous pscuiies wurc Robert Wilson I Ashury Iark N 1 W L I Robinson I rmvllle I Aa N Thixton 3 Miilsville K > D 1 Hanson I Falrbnry Neb and W J UKrlon Hcloni I Ark Of Lime Injured at t least twnly cases arc yprlou1 A doen or more Imvij broken bones and in I several casos there are compound fractures of tvo t and even three limbs The death list Is expected lo grow Two of Iho injured died after being taken t to hot 1 tsthuu LIMBS BADLY TORN Of the surviving members of the football foot-ball I I team who lived In all parts of the I country f AY Zimmerman has Iso muscles of his right leg torn al the knee L Y Long of Louisville Ky Is badly bruised on the t head F Miller I cut on head Fullback Thomas received a bad cut on the right leg nnd McCormack McCor-mack the substltulu end was injurad about the legs C O Talisman of Cincinnati Cin-cinnati is probably fatally injured and Is being cared for fl the t hnmt of Dr tunrilnglfam T I A Bailey of Richmond I ml also Is I In a critical condition Sam Millers loss are broken Halfback Knapp of Evnnsvillc iis recovering SADNESS FOLLOWS JOY AVhlle the vork of rescue was going on there arrived in the city over 000 cheering followers of the red and white nt Indiana university al Eloomliigton Banners waved college yells wine being hurled from the windows and streamers stream-ers won displayed from the windows of the car bearing lie colors of the university uni-versity football team As Iho happy and excited students poured from the t train news of the tragedy trag-edy to the black and gold of Purdue was received Instantly all was sadness sad-ness and sympathy The throng melted Into sorrowinc groups that separated Jo search tho morgue and hospitals for friends or took cars for the sEine of the wreck lo lend any possible aid COLORS PUT AAYAY All day the streets have been filled with silently moving bands of studanli But no colors wore displayed They Were pinned beneath coot or quietly put away No musk founded from the bands that susie to help celebrate All were anxiously awaillng news from the Injured I This evening the trains bore them hack leaving behind Jhe dead and injured LONG DEATH LIST Surgeons are still working over lime Injured II Is believed te death list will be swelled to twenty Jhso wreck has been cleared away and trafo I has been resumed Pn s > l < lont Stone of Put due has established niuiriera hero and is answering lumtreds of anxious Inquiries In-quiries from all iinris of the country The work of getting the home addresses of the Injured la dlfilcull as the only records arc the university reiords at Lafayette After the announcement 01 C the abandonment aban-donment oC the game today It tvus suggested sug-gested that the money colUeicd on advance ad-vance sale of seats be given lo the relatives rel-atives of the I injrred vho are needy OJnv Durban has started a subscription subscrip-tion t COYISRNOR AT VRIiCK The fJovornoi and other Stale officers hurried lo the wreck this morning and have been buiy all day assirllng in tin relief President Ryan of Indiana 1 university I uni-versity also hurried lo tins wreck on arriving In the t city on the I special train fiom Bloomington ami has been helping help-ing Purdue officials innoineed lhl afternoon that the university would engage en-gage In no more games this year SOME ONE TJLUNDICRID The denii arc at the several undertaking under-taking oBtubllshmciHF Coroner 0 Tuto wilor Is at work on hi est1trt I Ion of the I accldenl Superintendent YunWin kh of the I5lg Four said tonlyht he had nol had lime to Investicato the cause us his tme bad been devoted to I helping the Injured I Rich engineer says he had the rlhl of track and knew nothing the I other train The coal train was backing northward to one of the companys switches CANNOT RECO VEIL Dr TIll Ihisges one of the t injured is State I Veterinarian and a member of Purdue university faculty H I is reported re-ported tonight thai IT G Leslie of La u tayelle excaptain of the oasis cannot recover General Parsongcr Agent Lynch today to-day directed agcits of tin en lire Big Kour system everywhere lo furnish free transportation I to Indianapolis lo mom bois of families and relative I of those I vho were killed I or Injuicd I In I todays wreck