Arizona republican., 1903-11-01
Mingled With Purdue'S Col
OTS of Black and Gold
HORRIBLE RAILWAYW WRECK
Thirteen Football Players, on Their
Way to an Annual Game, Killed in
Collision in Indianapolis Yester-
day Morning.

juTed, some fatally, at 1920 O'Clock this
morning by collision between spe-
cial passenger train on the Big Four
railroad and a freight engine with coal
cars. The accident happened in the
edge of this city. The passenger train
of twelve coaches was carrying 954
persons. nearly all of whom were
students of Purdue University. and
their friends, from La Fayette to In
dianapoliS for the annual foot ball
game between the Purdue team and
the Indiana university squad for the
state championship. which was to have
been fought this afternoon. In the
first coach back of the engine We're
the Purdue foot ball team, substitute
players and managers. Three players,
the assistant coach, trainer and seven
substitute players of the university
were killed and every one uf the fifty
three other persons in the car was
either fatally or seriously injured Fol-
lowing is the list of the dead:
CHARLES CRUDE, Butler. Ind.
substitute player.
CHARLES FURR, Vedeersburg. Ind.
guard.
E. C. ROBERTSON, indianapolis.
assistant coach and captain of team
two years ago.
substitute.
R. J. POWELL, Corpus Christi.
Texas. end player.
w D. HAMILTON. Lafayette. Ind.
center rush
GABRIEL S. DOLLINGER, La
Fayette, Ind, substitute.
SAMUEL SOLUBLE. Lawrenceburg.
Ind substitute.
JAY HAMILTON, Huntington. Ind.
substitute
N r. HOWARD, lafayette, Ind,
president Of the Indiana Laundrymen's
Association.
PATRICK MecLAIR. Chicago.
trainer.
SAMUEL TRUITT. Noblesville. Ind.
substitute.
G. L. SHAW. La Fayette. Ind. sub
stitute
J. c. Coates, Berwin, Pa.
Rounding a curve at the Eighteenth
street cut. Engineer II. w. Schumacher.
found directly in front of him a freight
engine and coal cars moving slowly
from switch leading to a gravel pit.
He reversed his engine and jumped.
The crash hurled the passengers
the steel freight cars loaded with coal
that plowed their way through and
buried under a pile of wreckage weigh
ing many tons, fully sixty human be-
ings. The first car. in which were the
players was completely demolished. the
roof being torn away and falling
across a car of coal, while the body of
the car was reduced to kindling wood
against the side of the STEEL freight
car.
The second coach containing a brass
band, was partly telescoped and the
third coach was overturned and hurled
down fifteen foot embankment. The
other coaches did not leave the track
President Stone of the university, with
his family was in the fifth coach and
was not injured. Immediately after
the shock the passengers, men and wo-
men. began the frantic work of tear
ing away the wreckage and pulling
out the dead and dying classmates and
friends.
The young women. dressed in bright
colors for the holiday, performed
heroic work
A general alarm was sounded. and
every assistance the city could afford
was rushed to the wreck which was
The injured are in at least twenty
cases in a very serious condition. A
dozen or more have broken bones and
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 go
cheering followers of the red and white
of Indiana University at Bloomington.
Banners waved, college yells. were Le-
ing hurled from the windows and
streamers were displayed from the
windows of the car bearing the Uni
yersity foot ball team. AS the happy
and excited students poured from the
train, news of the tragedy to the black
and gold of Purdue was received. In
stantly all was sadness and sympathy.
The throng melted into sorrowing
groups that separated to search the
morgue and hospitals for friends or
took cars for the scene Os the wreck
to lend any possibly aid.
All day the streets have been filed
with silently moving bands of students
But nc colors were displayed.
They were pinned beneath coats or
quietly put away No music sounded
from the bands that came to help
celebrate. All were anxiously awaiting
news from the injured.
The evening trains bore them back, /
leaving behind the dead and injured
Surgeons are still working over the in
iured 1t is believed the death list viii
be ,swelled to twenty.
The wreck has been cleared away
and traffic has been resumed.
After the announcement of the
abahdonment of the game today it was
suggested that the money collected in
the advance sale of seats. will be given
to the relatives of the injured who are
needy. Governor Durham has started
a subscription.
The governor and other state officials