The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-11-02
SIXTEEN DEAD
TN WRECK
College Special In Collision In In
dianapolis, Ind.
KILLED PURDUE STUDENTS.
Were on Their way to Play IN q
Football Match with Indiana Uni-
versity-sTore Than Fifty oth-
ers Seriously Injured.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 2. Sixteen
persons were killed and over fifty in
jured, some fatally. in the collision be
tween a special passenger train on the
Big -Four railroad and freight engine
with cut OF coal cars. The accident
happened on the edge Of this city. The
passenger train Of twelve coaches was
carrying 945 persons, nearly all Of
whom we're students Of Purdue unlver-
sity and their friends, from Lafayette
to indianapolis for the annual football
game between Purdue and the Indiana
university. In the first coach back OF
the engine were the Purdue team. sub
stitute players and managers Three
players. the assistant coach, trainer and
seven substitute players of the univer-
sity team were killed, and every one Of
the tifty-three other persons in the car
was either fatally or seriously injured
How the Disaster Occurred.
Around curve at the Eighteenth
street cut Engineer Schumacher found
directly in front Of him the freight en-
CINE and coal cars moving slowly from
switch leading to a gravel pit lie
reversed his engine and jumped
The crash hurled the passenger en-
CINE and three front coaches against
the steel freight cars loaded with coal
that plowed their way through and
buried under d pile Of wreckage weigh
Ing many tons fully sixty human be-
ings.
The first car, iii which were the play.
ers, was completely demolished, the
roof being torn away and landing
across a car OF coal, while the body Of
the car was reduced To kindling wood
against tlie side Of the steel freight
cars. The second coach, containing the
band Of musicians, was partly tele.
scoped- while the third coach was over
turned and hurled down Il fifteen foot
embankment
The other coaches did not leave the
track. President Stone Of fhe nniver-
sity, with his family was In the firth
coach and was not injured Imne-
diately after the shock the passengers.
men and women began the frantic
work Of tearing away the wreckage
and pulling ont dead and dying class
mates and fraternity brothers The
young women performed heroic work.
Though the bodies were in several fns
stances horribly mangled. one COM
pletely and one par4ialg beheaaed.
they took upon their laes the heads S
the dying and injured md soothaf'
their snfferings as best they could until
the surgeons arrived
a general alarm was sounded. and
every assistance the city could afford
was rushed to the wreck. Which was
three miles from the business center
Surgeons dashed up in automobiles:
fire wagons, ambuIances, express wag
ons, undertakers' vehicles, private COZ.
veyances and even delivery wagons
were sent to carry away the dead and
Injured While these were being chr
ried to the morgues and hospitals The
work Of tearing away the wreck and
rescuing those pinned beneath went
on Big, muscular students wept aloud
as they stood over the bodies Of their
dead friends and fellow workers 81
gazod helpless upon the sufrerings 81
their college mates writing iii pain.
other Deaths Expected.
The injured are III at least twenty
cases in a very serious condition.
dozen or more have broken bones. anu
in several cases there are compound
fractures Of two and even three limbs.
The death list is expected to grow.
Two Of the injured died after being
taken to the hospitals
While the work Of rescue was going
ON there arrived in the city over 900
cheering followers Of The red and white
Of Indiana university at Bloomington.
Banners waved. college yells were be-
Ing hurled from the windows. and
streamers were displayed from the
windows Of the car bearing the univer-
sity football team.
As the happy and excited students
poured from the train news of the
tragedy to the black and gold Of Pur.
due was received Instantly all was
sadness and sympathy. The throng
melted into sorrowing groups that sep
arated TO search morgue and hospital
for friends or took cars for the scene
OF the wreck to lend any possible aid
Surgeons are still working over the
injured. and it is believed the death
list win be swelled to twenty.