Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-07
Three Instantly Killed and
Twenty Injured, Many 81
Them Probably Fatally
REMARKABLE SCENE At WRECK
uninjured Gather About the Dead and
Dying and soIemnIy Chant the
Death Song" Dying Chief Calmly.
Smoked His Pipe and Gave No sisn
Of His Suffering.

haywood, III, April 7.-Sixty-three
Indians dn special car enroute to
Washington to see President Roose-
welt We're smashed dnto by Chicago
& Northwestern mail train near here
today, during dense fog Three In-
dians were instantly killed, three fa-
tally injured and twenty others more
or less seriously hurt. The Indians
who We're not pinned in the wreck He'd
in a panic across the prairie. All the
victims OF the wreck were Indians. The
dead are:
Kill Head s G
Phol1ip IrontaN.
Thomas Comelast. # i
The seriously injured:
Big Chief White Horse, Will die
Luther Standing Bear. will die.
Annie Gnose Face, will die.
Mrs. Thomas Comelast.
Tommie Conelast. aged 6. s
Sammy Lone Bear.
Abraham Goodfnow.
Blind Eagle.
Little Elk.
Charge The Enemy.
Head Chief High Ball, at the headlof1
a delegation OF Sioux, severely crushed
about the body.
William Sitting Bull. son Of Chief
Sitting Bull.
The trains which collided were the
former striking the rear end 0f the
Oregon Express and Fast Nail the
mail train. Physicians Wers UFnpfly
hurried to the scene. The 4t1lrsd wer0
taken to Msiy wool and Chicago. The
coach containing the Indians WAS e.
light day car It was completely
wrecked. After the collision the pas
sengers In the other coaches OF the two
trains hurried TO the rescue and after
a hard struggle pulled Them from be-
Meath the Wreckage. Chief White
Horse, in charge of the Indians on the
train, was fatally injured. He said ne
knew death was near, and requested
that he be placed near his dead CONF
panions. The chief was propped up
and sat stoically while the physicians
worked over his injuries. He smoked
his pipe quietly and showed no signs
of the pain he must have been suffer-
ing. One by one the other injured m-
dams were slowly taken from the
splintered car and placed upon the
ground near their dying chief and dead
comrades
Caused by Fog.
Persons on the train said the coilision
undoubtedly was the result of the dense
fog which stretched from Lake Mich
igan today many miles west. m0-
ment after the crash there was not
sound in the i'll fated coach. Then
one by one those surviving the crash
regained in part their senses and be-
gan shopFing for aid. A terrifying
series ofwild yells from the Indians
were herd by the passengers jumping
from each side of the cars ahead. All
the men passengers and many women
on board the train FASTENED to aid .the
Indians.
The fact that one side OF the rear
car fell off from the impact undoubt-
edly saved the lives Of many Indians
who were thrown out on the prairie.
The Indians were from reservation
near Rushville, Neb., and their journey
ca st primarily was for show purposes
at New York
chanted Death Song.
After the bodies of the dead had
been removed from the wreckage and
placed in a row beside the tracks, an
incident, probably unparalleled in rail.
way records, took place. The unin-
iured among the Indians gathered
about and led by Chief Iron Tail, sol
emnly chanted the Indian death
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