The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-11-06
FOO1BALl|S1S
IN A BAD WRECK
A Big Four Special, Loaded with
Purdue Players and Rooters,
CUT IN TWO AT INDIANAPOLIS
More Than "a Dozen. Including some
of the Players. KILLED and Many
lnjured-The Train Mas struck
Broadside by Coal Cars

OF the Players. httteu nmu """y
Injured-rh~ Train Was struck
Broadside by Coal Cars
indianapolis. Ind, Nov. THE Big
Four train carrying the members Of
the football team of Purdue university
from Lafayette was wrecked near
Riverside park. Saturday morning at
the edge OF this city Several players
are among the killed and injured. The
team was scheduled 10 play with the
Indiana state university Saturday att
ernoon-
Twelve dead bodies have been taken
from the wreck thus far There are
still others in the wreck.
Some OF the killed and injured are
members OF the football team The list
of dead thus far identified follows:
The dead:
VII. CRUDE. substitute player; But
Ter. Ind.
Walter Furr. member OF the team;
Texas
e. c. Robertson. assistant coach.
Walter X. RCucn. flttsburg-
RI. Powell. Corpus Christi, Tex
WD Hamilton. center rush, Lafay-
cite.
Gabriel 5. Drollinger. beheaded.
Sam Squibb Lafayette.
Jay Hamilton. substitute player
Huntington. Ind
NR. Howard. Lafayette.
Walter Robertson.
Patrick McClair. Chicago assistant
coach; died at hospital
Samuel Truif, Noblesville. Ind; sub
stitute quarterback: died at hospital
G.. l.. Shaw. student. Lafayette.
Injured.
John Miller. player.
Prof A. W. Biting. Purdue: dis
located hip.
w. G.. McManus. Davenport. Ia: legs
crushed.
Clark Meyers. Monticello. Ind.
T. A. Bailey. Richmond. Ind.
II. O. Wright. Pendleton. Ind: in
ternal injuries
William sprau. Sandusky, 0;bruised
hip
H. c. Adams. Frankfort, Ind; ankles
fractured.
John C. TAYLOR. Lafayette: bruised
Harry Van Tuyle. Indianapolis
]. C. Coates. Burwyn. Pa; leg
crushed may he fatal.
Louis Smith. Purdue; student; back
hurt
A. l.. Holler: leg crushed
J. r. Whitehead
r. w Rusterholz. Lafayette.
s. Miller. student
G. Nichols. student
F. W. Frank. Lafayette.
E. s. Mills. student
W w Taggart. student.
d b. O'Brien. student
Hendricks Johnson. student.
Walter Rush. student.
r. Willmore. student.
M. F.. Steele. Canton, o.
J. W Mowrey indianapolis.
III. G.. Leslie. student.
Irving Osborn. Dover. o.; captain OF
team: bruised and left leg fractured.
A. Butler. indianapolis.
L. f. Irven. fireman: badly bruised
Dennis Fl. Long. Louisville; bruised
beg injured: Purdue player
volney Lay. Laporte. Ind.
L. T. Rush. pittsburg.
N~nrIy q Thousand ON Hoard.
The special train carried the Lafay-
cite rooters. numbering nearly 1000.
IT consisted OF II coaches and was run
ming as the first section at high speed.
AT gravel pit switch near Eigh-
teenth street. a switch engine with a
cut of coal cars collid-d with the pas
senger. The passenger engine and
6rst three coaches we're almost total
ly destroyed The first coach was
crushed 10 splinters. the second tele-
scoped and thrown down an embank-
ment IL feet high. while the thirr
coach was overturned and thrown
across the track There Is confusion
Ne 10 what caused the accident. each
engineer insisting that he had the
track and did not know OF the other
train. A deep cut prevented a clear
view OF the track.
The crash OF the two trains threw
the coal cars through the first two
coaches in which we're many Of the
plaveys and substitutes. The engine
two coal cars and two coaches were
crushed into confused mass OF
wreckage. Under this pile OF debris
were so or more students Of the uni
versity.
The uninjured in the rear coaches
hurried to the aid of the victims.
Taklng Out the Victims.
The work Of pulling cut the dead
and injured was continued by the stu
dents and passengers. including many
girls from Lafayette. until surgical
help arrived
Reward For Ba1k Robbers.
Windsor. Mo-. Nov. 1.-The Nilsson
n Bankers association has offered .
$1,000 ~ e-oo and tho Ocean AcCi