The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-11-02
MOST AWFUL
Terrible Wreck on the Big Four
Saturday One of the Saddest
in Years.

=4,.Ineianapolis, S oy.s 2. 2a..=-F'ul "details
u the terrible wreck an z1hes5Blaa Fnur
saturday are as follows:
s Fifteen dead have been taken from
the wreck and forty passengers we're
Injured, twenty-four of them seri-
Ously.
Among the dead are several mem
bers OF the Purdue university football
team The list Of dead follows:
w. H. CRUDE, substitute player, But
ler, Ind; Walter Furr member of the
team, Texas; r. c. Roberts, assistant
coach; Walter K. Rouch, Pittsburg;
l.. Rouch, Pittsburg; j. Powell, Corpus
Christi, Tex; William Hamilton, SEN
ter rush, Lafayette; Gabriel S. Drol-
llnger, beheaded; Sam Squibb, La
fayette; Jay Hamilton, substitute
player, Huntington, Ind; NJ r. How
ard, Lafayette; Walter Robertson;
Patrick McClair, Chicago assistant
coach, died at hospital; Sam Truit
substitute quarterback, Noblesville,
ind, died at city hospital; G.. l.. Shaw,
student, Lafayette.
Three Coaches Demolished.
The special train consisted of
twelve coaches and was running at
high speed
At a gravel pit switch near Eight
eenth street switch engine with g.
cut of coal cars collided with the pas.
senger. The passenger engine and
hrst three coaches were almost to-
tally destroyed. The first coach was
crushed to splinters, the second tel
! escoped and thrown down an embank-
ment fifteen feet high, while the third
coach was overturned and thrown
across the track. The crash Of the
two trains threw the coal cars. through
[ the first two coaches, in which were
y many Of the players and substitutes.
Che engine, two coal cars and two
E)aches were crushed into a confused
mass OF wreckage. Under this pile
Iof debris were fifty or more students
Ef the university.
The uninjured in the rear coaches
hurried to the aid of the victims The
work Of pulling Alt the dead and in
Sured was continued by the students
pd passengers, including many girls
pm Lafayette, until surgical help
tmBIlanees and special vehicles
carrying away the dead and in
~ bed were hurried to the wreck A.
Sge force continued tearing away
B debris and removing bodies.
frhe condition of some Of the dead
hs frightful One body was entirely
Eheaded. Others were terribly mutt
Ped in other ways.
Crash Heard for Blocks.
The crash of the collision was heard
T. blocks around People hurried
pm every direction and women who
LIVED in the vicinity came prepared
\ with remedies to assist the injured.
YAH the ambulances in the city re-
Eponded to the alarm.
The wounds of the injured men
Nere dressed temporarily and they
Iere hurried away to the hospitals
Ihe city hospital and dispensary am
Hlances each carried several loads
the city hospital The dead were
fmoved last.
1.-THE work of rescuing these bodies
kquired the combined work of the
b'ecking crew and many Of the city
: femen and policemen. The tender
rs raised with jacks and the bodies
he drawn out. The body of Gabriel
kDollinger was found almost be-
ned under the Yreckage of the
oacbD~it was teseued with diff
iAagcenes following the rescue of
Niead and injured were distress
H Men wept and cried aloud when
@y looked upon the faces of their
.Nd classmates or at the Sufferings
II their classmates and fraternity
srothers. Many of the girls rolled up
neir sleeves and knelt at the sides of
he stricken men and bathed their
/ Wounds until the services Of surgeon
could be secured All the young men
killed were in the first coach. which
was reduced to kidding wood They
were found lying tangled and bleed
Ing with the injured pinned against
Asssem The coach held about seventy
.Sons.