The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-11-05
Fsted Special Was Carrying
Students of Purdue to
a Football Game.
COLLIDE AT HIGH SPEED
Engineers on Both Trains Which COL
Iided DiscIaim Responsibility
Observation-Disclosures of Many
of the Bodies.

hundred students Of Purdue university,
was wrecked Saturday neal Riverside
park, at the edge of the city.
Fifteen dead have been taken from
the wreck. Forty passengers were in
jured, twenty-four of them seriously.
Among the dead are several members
of the Purdue university football team,
which was to have played Indiana uni
versity for the state championship here
this afternoon. The dead thus far
identified are:
w. H. CRUDE, substitute player, In
~dianapolis, Ind.
WALTER FURR, member of the
team, Texas.
E. G. ROBERTSON, assistant coach.
WALTER R. ROUGH, Pittsburg.
r. ]. POWELL, Corpus Christi, Tex.
w. d. HAMILTON, center rush, La
fayette.
GABRIEL S. DRoLL1NGER; be-
SAM SOLUBLE, Lafayette.
JAY HAMILTON, ~sub-player, Hunt
ington, Ind.
N. r. HOWARD. Lafayette.
WALTER ROBERTSON.
PATRICK McCLA1R, Chicago, as
sistant coach; died at hospital.
SAMUEL TRUE, Noblesville. Ind,
sub-quarterback: died at hospital.
1.I1. iofltN udeH
List of the Injured.
The injured:
William sprau, sandusky, O.;
bruised hip.
II. c. Adams, Frankfort, Ind; ankles
fractured.
John c. Taylor, Lafayette; bruised.
Harry Van Tuyle, Indianapolis.
j. c. Coates, Ru.Hi., Pa; left side
crushed; may be fatal.
Louis Smith, Purdue, student; back
hurt.
Al. Holler;; leg crushed.
j. R. Whitehead.
R. w. Rusterbolz, Lafayette.
S. Miller, student.
G. Nichols, student.
p. w. Frank, Lafayette.
r. S. Mills, student.
W. w. Taggart, student.
D. S.. O'Brien, student.
Hendricks tombstone, student.
Walter Rush, student.
r. Wilmore, student.
M. Steele, Canton, O.
j. w. Mowrey. Indianapolis.
G. G. Leslie, student.
T.. p. Rush, Pittsburg.
John Miller, player.
Prof. A. w. Biting of Purdue; dislo-
Gated hip.
". G. McManus of Davenport, Ia;
legs crushed.
Carlk Meyers Of Monticello, Ind.
7. A. Bailey of Richmond, Ind.
H.. Q. Wright Of Pendleton, Ind; n
ternal injuries.
The accident was due to cars run
ming down from a switch at the gravel
pit a. Eighteenth street. The engi-
neer of the special saw the cars APP
preaching and jumped from his en-
CINE, The first coach was cut in two
and the engine thrown on its side.
Many of the students who We're in the
rear coach We're shaken up. The sec
ond car, occupied by the Purdue band.
was telescoped.
The special train bore the Lafayette
rooters, numbering nearly 1000. 1t
consisted of twelve coaches and was
running as the first section at o high
speed. At Tho gravel pit switch near
Eighteenth street the switch engine.
with he cut coal cars, co1lided with the
passenger.
The passenger engine and first three
coaches were almost totally destroyed.
The first coach was crushed to splin-
ters, the second telescoped and thrown
down an embankment fifteen feet high,
and the third overturned and thrown
across the track.
Engineers DiscIaim Blame.
There is confusion as to what caused
the accident, each engineer insisting
he had the track andSdid not know OF
the other train. The deep cut prevented
a@clear view of4the track. The crash
Of the two trains threw the coal cars
through the first two coaches in which
were many players and substitutes,
The engine, two coal cars and two
coaches were crushed into a confused
mass of wreckage. Under this pile of
debris We're fifty or more students of
the university. The uninjured ones i'll
the e coaches hurried to aid the Vic
Tins.
The condition of some of the dead was
frightful; one body was entirely be-
headed; others terribly mutilated. Two
of the dead Hamilton boys We're broth
ers; one lived at Lafayette and one at
Huntington
Scenes Were Distressing.
At 3 o'cloclIit was learned the list OF
dead reached fifteen. The wounds Of
the injured We're Temporarily dressed
and they were hurried TO hospitals, a
few going to the homes o. eriends.
All the killed were In - rst coach,
which was smashed TO Eifla1irlg wood.
They were found, marglea and bleed
Ing, with the injured PINNED against
them. All We're Young. Seventy per-
sons were In the coacn,#ard those re-
tanning consciousness urged friends tc
hSsten tn the telegraph office and In
form friends Of their escap with q few
injuries.
The number of injured will reach
about thirty, many of whom it is feared
are fatally hurt. The injured are be.
Ing cared8for q i hospftais,sa and surgeons
have already ampntated several limbs
and are still at work over he danger
ously wounded. Incoming trains
brought friends and relatives OF the in.