Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-31
FORTY SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Accident Was Due to a Cut OF Cars
Running Into the Students
Special Train.
OCCURRED AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Extent Of the Disaster Not Yet Known
As Some Bodies Are Still Under
The Debris.

Indianapolis inu.i Oct. Ola SpeViul
train on the Big Four bearing 96i La
fayette passengers, including several
hundred students of Purdue university
was wrecked today near Riverside
Park, at the edge Of this city. Fifteen
dead have been taken from the wreck
and 40 passengers were injured, "a Of
them seriously.
Among the dead are several members
OF the Purdue university football team,
which was to play Indiana university
for TIE state championship here this
afternoon.
W: u. CRUDE, substitute player, But
Ter, Ind
Walter FUR, member OF the team,
Tex.
f. c. Robertson, assistant coach.
Walter II. ROUGH. Plttsburg.
II. j. Powell Corpus Christi, Tex.
W. d. Hamilton, center rush, La
fayette.
Gabriel Drolinger, beheaded.
Sam Squib. Lafayette
jay Hamilton, sub-player Hunting
ton, Ind
~ r. Howard Lafayette.
Walter Robertson.
Patrick McClalr Chicago. assistant
coach, died at hospital
Sam Truet, Noblesvile, Ind, sub.
quarterback. died at,hospital,
G. l. Shaw. student, Lafayette.
INJuDER.
Lee Rush. Plttsburg.
IOhn Miller ulaVpr
Prof A. w. Biting, Purdue dlslo-
Gated hip.
W. q. McManus Davenport Ia, legs
crushed.
Clark Meyers. Monticello. Ind.
T. A. Bailey. Richmond, Ind
II. o. Wright, Pendleton, Ind.
William Sprau, Sandusky. o., bruised
hip.
II. c Adams. Frankfort, Ind, ankles
fractured
John c. Taylor Lafayette, Ind,
bruised
Harry T. vantuyle. indianapolis.
C. Coates. Burwyn, Pa, crushed
and may die.
Louis Smith, Purdue, student. back
sprained.
A. l.. Holler, leg crushed
j. r. Whitehead
r. w. Rusterholz, Lafayette.
$. Miller, student
g. Nichols, student
r, W. Frank, Lafayette.
H. $. Mills. student.
w. w. Taggart, student.
D Il. O'Brien, student
Hendricks tombstone. student.
Walter Rush. student.
p Wilmore, student.
n. r.. Steele Canton, q,
w Mowrer, Indianapolis
II. G.. Leslie, student.
Irwin Osborne, Dover o., captain OF
The football team, bruised and left leg
fractured,
Walter Butler Indianapolis.
l., Il. IRWIN, fireman. badly bruised,
leg injured, Purdue player.
Voney Lay. Laporte, Ind.
j. NJ. Rush, New Carists, Ind.
ID M Allen, Lafayette, bruised about
the head and body,
Morris Rush, player, Pittsburg, scalp
wound.
c. w Zimmerman player. Cumber-
land, Md. knee muscle torn.
f. NJ Hartshorn, sub-player, bruised
about head
Alexander Thomas, LETT end, of
Marion, cut on leg and bruised.
Q. Mccormick, substitute end,
bruised about head.
John Henderson, Indianapolis, assist
ant fireman, back injured
c. Q. Tansman, Cincinnati fractured
skull fatal
], y, Knapp half back Evansvts.
dislocated knee,
q II. Weitz, Purdue, student, Butler.
Ind, lacerated arm.
Irving II. Long, Louisville left
tackle, bruised about head.
w, II. Leslie, captain OF term last
year, seriously hurt.
Prof. j. Troop Purdue, hand injured.
Mrs. J. Troop, injured about head.
Miss Helen Troop, injured about
head
Mrs. ollle Peterson, hand injured.
Walter Robertson. whose name APP
pears in the list OF killed was identi-
fed by means OF addresses upon en-
velopes In his pocket. He was not
known by the students and the identi-
hcation is not absolute
The sepclal train bore the Lafayette
rooters numbering nearly 1000, 1t con-
sisted of IL coaches and was running as
the first section at high speed.
At gravel pit switch, near Elgh-
teenth street, switch engine, with n
cut Of coal cars. collidcd with the pas
senger The passenger engine and first
three coaches were almost totally des-
troyed.
The first coach was crushed 20 spln-
tiers, the second telescoped and thrown
down an embankment Is feet high,
while the third coach was overturned
and thrown across the track There ia