The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-02

of the wreck of the Purdue special Satur-
day morning. William Bailey, of New
Richmond, Ind. member of the football
team, died yesterday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at the home of Dr. S. r. Cunning
ham, near the scene of the catastrophe.
His name increases the list of dead to six
teen
In the hospitals death is lowering over
the bedsides of other terribly injured young
men, and despite all that the best medical
and surgical attention and tender nursing
Purdue students who were in the first
coach of the special will die within twenty
four hours. Their condition warrants the
gravest apprehension.
At st. Vincents. II. A. Wright, of PEN
dleton, Ind, whose back was broken and
who is suffering from internal injuries. is
poised between life and death His con-
dition yesterday was so critical that the
surgeons did not dare to perform surgi-
so much weaker that the end was expected
before morning.
At the City Hospital Hendricks johnson,
with both legs broken, cut and bruised,
and it is feared internally injured, has lit
tie chance Of recovery, the doctors an
nounced last night. He failed to rally as
the physicians hoped and gradually be-
came weaker. The young man is from
Evansville, Ind, and was quarter back on
the football team.
A. L. Hotter. of ,Oberlin. o., left half
back on the team, is another whose name
may be placed on the grim list. Rupture of
the perineum is his most serious injury. 1t
was known when he was first taken to the
hospital that the chances were against him
and his condition yesterday made the City
Hospital doctors look grave.
OTHERS DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED.
These three are in the most danger, it is
injured so seriously that turn for the
worse would not cause the medical attend
ants surprise. In so far as possible the
terrible details of the wreck have been
kept from those who are critically injured.
1t being feared that the awfulness Of the
news would increase the seriousness of their
condition.
Louis Smith, of East Lafayette. and Sim
v. M Miller, brother of Hugh T. Miller, of
Columbus. Ind. representative in the Legis-
lature, who are at the City Hospital, have
a fighting chance for life.
The forty or more who are being cared
for at the hospitals and in private resi-
dences will recover, their physicians say.
Many were badly hurt, but none fatally.
William Baileys death was caused by
anaemic poisoning, it is stated by President
Stone, of Purdue. When the end came
yesterday afternoon the young mans
father. ]. E. Bailey. had arrived from
Pendleton. The scene at the bedside of the
dying boy was inexpressibly pathetic The
that he was stunned by it's import. hardly
able to realize that the moment had come
| to bid his son farewell.
! 1t was not until yesterday that a full
realization of the dreadfulness of the acci-
dent came to most people. Saturday, the
,minds of all were filled with the exciting
details of the catastrophe. and while there
was no one who was not instantly sad
dened by the fearful cost of somebody
mistake" appreciative of the enormity oi
the disaster and the pathos of the circum-
stances, yet it was not until the exciting
spectacular incidents had given place tc
the quiet, yet even more terrible reports
from the bedsides of the crushed and
shattered young men who a few hours be.
fore were i'm the flower of fine young man.
hood the whole world in front of them to
conquer. that the city and State reached
the acutesr sadness.
GREAT GENERAL SORROW.
On account of the youth and prominenc,
OF many of the victims of the wreck and
the promise of their lives there was never
an accident in the State that caused more
general sorrow On account of the number
| of persons killed or injured, these comine
from every section of Indiana. and from
many other States, the mourning is gen.
eral.
The demand upon the coroner of Marior
county and the officials of the Big -Four
Railroad Company for a searching inves.
tigation that will bring out the bare facts
in the case and fix The responsibility |!
J tremendous. It Is doubtful IL a railroad