The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-08-14
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CIRCUS IN WRECK
Two Sections Of the Show
Train Crash Together Ia
Michigan Town.
& SCENE ENsuEs
Believing Of Frightened Animals and
Cries Of the Injured Mads . 6ed-
lam Of lt-cireus Has Big
Financial XLoss.

Durand. Mich, Aug. g. Wallace
circus was wrecked in the
Grand Trunk yards here early today
and twenty-one men, mostly em-
ployes, were killed outright. Twelve
more were injured, eve fatally.
Among the dead are ]. Mccarthy.
train master Of, the Grand Trunk, and
A. w. Large,of Battle Creek, special
agent Of the Grand Trunk.
The show was travelling in two Sec
lions over the Grand Trunk from
Lansing to LaPere. The accident, It
is said, was caused by the failure OF
that it ran Into the first section at full
speed.
The engine OF the second section and
four cars of the first section were de-
molished. Much valuable property
was destroyed. The loss to the circus
people will probably be very heavy.
Some Of the animals were killed.
The scene after the accident was ap-
palling. The shrieks Of the injured
and the believing Of frightened ami
mails could DO heard above the hiss of
escaping steam and the excited shouts
Of the rescuers.
It was some hours before all the in-
jured were rescued.
The Dead and Injured.
The dead:
JOHN PURCELL, Peru, Ind.
LAFE LARSON, Cambridge. o.
G. THOMAS.
HARRY ST. CLAIR, residence IN
known.
JOHN LEARy, Springfield, Ill.
ANDREW ROWLAND, New York
state.
FRANK THORP, Dundee, Mich.
ROBERT RICE.
GEORGE SMITH. residence un.
known. y
CHARLES SANDS, Peru, Ind.
JOE WILSON, Pittsburg.
w. j. MCCOY, Columbus, O.
SEVEN OTHER SHOWMEN, names
and residences unknown.
The seriously injured:
James S. Foley, special officer Of the
Grand Trunk, Detroit.
Joseph F. Penton, New Milford,
Conn.
w. H. Roe, Armstrong, Ill.
Frank Tilley, Rising Sun, Ind.
Bole Abrams, Sandusky, o.
Burt McGrath, Connellyille, O.
John w. Rooms, Bairdstown, o.
George BARLEY, Los Angeles, Cal.
The wreck, according to h state
ment OF the engineer of the second sec
ton, was caused by the failure OF the
air brakes to work.
EARLY Morning Horror.
It was 3:45 a. m. when the first sec
Grand Trunk yards. "A red light was
hung on the rear car to stop the second
section. Engineer Propst Of Battle
Creek, who was running the engine
Of the rear train, says he saw the light
and applied the air brakes. To his hor-
ror the air refused to work. He re-
versed, but the momentum of the train
behind. was too great and with a crash
that aroused all Of the town near the
yards the two trains met.
Three cars Of the first section tele-
scoped the engine, and five cars ofsthe
moving train We're demolished. The
rear car+of the first section was a ca
boose, / n which the tratnmen were
sleeping, and the next two were filled
with sleeping circus employees.
The greatest loss OF life was in the
caboose. One of the wrecked cars of
the second section was occupied by
five elephants and several camels. One
elephant and two camels We're killed
outright, while the other animals and
the trainer escaped. With the excep-
! ton Of this car none of the menagerie
was wrecked, the other demolished cars
containing canvas or wagons. There
was comparatively little excitement
among the wild animals.
Elephants Behaved Well.
The elephants in the wrecked car be.
| haved with surprising calmness. They
! were led out Of the wreck wtthout
trouble. The escaping steam n the
cries of those pinned in the wreck
made a horrifying spectacle when tn
trainmen in the yards and the aroused
t~ownspeople first reached the scene
through the tangled wreckage ant
went furiously to work. "A wreckint
! crew was on the scene in a very few
minutes bring tools and equipment II
plenty.
All the physicians and trained nurses
In the town were sent for, and those 4
nearby places were rushed to the seen
! on handcars. The Hotel Richelieu wa
| converted into O temporary hospital
and scores OF volunteers with stretch
ers were in readiness to carry the in
jured there as fast as the rescueri
could extract them. The dead-man.
of them so terribly mangled that iden
LITIGATION seemed well-night Impossible
were carefully laid on the gree
sward a shor distance from the scene
Many Physicians at Work.
By 6 o'clock a corps Of twelve physi
clans were operating on the injure,
and dressing their wounds in the TEN
porary hospital. When the wreckinl
train crews had succeeded In pullinj
away the pieces OF the tangled an
broken cars, seventeen dead were lyin
on the grass awaiting removal to TIL
morgue. -Four others died In he hos
pital. The majority were killed whil
asleep. The circus performers were Q
the rear OF the moving train. and es
capped Injury.
WINS THE RACE.