The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01
IS KILLED IN
 TRAIN WRECK
 >- Football Special COlIideS
 With Freight. PLAYERS AMONG THE DEAD Members of Team of Perdue University. Passengers Were Nearly All Students of the Lafayette, Ind, College and Their Friends Joyous
 Tells Changed to oroans.

fatally. at 1o:2o o'clock this morning. by a collision between . special passenger train on the Big Four Railroad and freight engine with cut of coal cars The acci- dent occurred in the edge of this city. The passenger train of twelve coaches was carrying ss4 persons. nearly all of whom were students of Purdue University and their friends, from Lafayette to In- dianapolis for the sannual football game between Purdue and Indiana Uni versity for the State championship. which was to have been fought this afternoon.
 Tn the first coach back of the engine were the Purdue football team. substituts players and managers. Three players. the coach trainer and several players of the University team were killed and every one If the fifty-three other persons in the car were either fatally or seriously in- tured.
 List of the Dead.
 Following Is the list of dead:
 Charles Brube. Butler. Ind, substitute player; Charles Furr. Vedersburg. Ind, guard; D.. c. Robertson, Indianapolis, as- sistant coach; Walter l.. Roush. Pitts burg. Pa. substitute; R. J. Powell, Cor pus Christi. Tex. end; W. D. Hamilton, Bridgetown, Ind. center. Gabriel S. Drollinger. Lafayette, Ind, substitute; Samuel squibb, Iawrenceburg. Ind, sub stitute; N. R. Howard. Lafayette, Presi- dent Indiana Laundrymen's Association; Patrick McClair. Chicago. trainer; Sam uel Truitt, Noblesville, Ind, substitute: o. l.. Shaw. Indiana Harbor, Ind; Bert Price. Spencer. Ind. substitute; J. c. Coab. Berwynne. Pa
 Of the flfty-one persons injured in the wreck. thirty-nine are seriously hurt, nearly all having broken bones. They are as follows:
 List of Injured.
 K. R. Whitehead. Monelora, O., substi- ute half bach on TurdHe fean, Potts fracture. cut and bruised : 1sfous: Sim Miller, Ninevah, Ind. end on Purdue team. both legs crushed, serious: c. W. Nichols. Philadelphia, Pa. half back on second Purdue team, left shoulder broken and several ribs broken; E. 8. Mills, Rennes- lear. Ind, quarterback on Purdue team. both legs broken, cuts and bruises, seri- ous; w. W. Taggart. Owen. Ind, tackle on scrub team, arm broken, injured about head; Dan O'Brien. Syracuse, N. r.. guard on scrub team. Purdue. leg broken; Hen dricks Johnston, Evansville, Ind, quarter back on Purdue, both legs crushed. shoul- der broken. very serious: L. E. Rush, Dairy Station. Pa. member of scrub team, both legs broken; Carl Wilmore, Winchester, Ind. broken legs. suffering from shock, critical; J. H. Mowrey, Cham bersburg, Pa., half back on team. left leg crushed; Louis Smith, East Lafayette. Ind, center on team, injured about head and spine, serious; A. L. Hotter, Oberlin, O.. halfback on team. legs crushed, skull fractured. serious; Harry Adams, Frank fort, Ind. substitute halfback on team. left ankle fractured and ribs broken; R. W. Rusterhose. Peoria. III. President Ju- nior Class Purdue. Potts fracture. broken ribs; E. W. Frank, Lafayette, Ind. left hip broken; John c. Taylor, drayman at Lafayette, chest crushed. fractured skull and broken arms, serious; Harry Van Tuyl, Indianapolis, Big Four fireman, left ankle broken; W. R. Butler. Pittsburg. Pa.. fracture of the base of the skull. may die; Maurice Steele. Canton, O.. badly bruised and cut: William McManus. Da- venport, Iowa, substitute tackle of Pur- due team, both legs broken: c. o. Tauge- man, Cincinnati, O., several fractures, se- rious, may die; J. B. Nappl, Evansville. Ind, half back on Purdue team. dislocated knee; William Bailey, New Richmond Ind, substitute end on Purdue team. sev- eraI broken ribs; c. P. Weitz, Butler, Ind, substitute full back. arm brogen and bruises; John Henderson. Indianapolis. as- sistant Big Four fireman, internal injuries and bruises; D. H. Long, Louisville. Ky. end on Purdue team. cut about head and body, left leg crushed: I. s. Osborne. Do yer O., captain of team, left leg fractur ed; D. M Allen, Lafayette, Ind, tackle on team, bruised about head and body: J. M. Rush, Newcastle, Ind, nose broken, bruosed about head and body; H. o. Wright, substitute tackle on team, inJu- rIes to spine and left leg broken: Dr. A. W. Biting, Lafayette State Expert mental Physician, dislocated hip, cut about head; Volney Ray, La Porte. Ind, cut and Bruised about body; Walter Snraw. member of the team, cut and bruised: Oliver F. Cutts. coach of Purdue team. left leg injured; w. F, Collar jaw broken. left leg injured; l.. E. Irwin, In- dis snapolis, Ind. left leg broken. head cut; Maurice Rush, Pittsburg, scalp wounds.
 From the twelve coaches were coming the joyous cries of thousand rooters for Purdue. clad in gala dress with colors streaming while in the front coach sat twenty great muscular fellows trained to the hour. on whom the hopes of a bril- liant victory on the gridiron were confi- dently placed.
 Engineer Jumps.
 Around a curve al the blshteenth street cut Engineer W. II. Schumaker found directly in front of him the freight en- zine and coal cars moving slowly from a Switch leading to a gravel pit He re- versed his engine and Jumped.
 The crash hurled the passenger engine ana three front coaches against the steel freight cars loaded with coal. that plowed their way through and buried under pile of wreckage weighing many tons fully sixty human beings.
 The first car in which were the players was completely demolished The second coach, containing the DdmI .,T Tl nusiclahs, 1 coach was overturned and hurled down l5-foot embankment-
 The other coaches did not leave the track President Stone of the University. with his family. was in the fifth coach and was not injured immediately after the the shock the passengers, men and wo- men, began the frantic work of teari~; away the wreckage and pulling out dead
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