Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-07
Three Lost Their Lives, Three We're
Fatally Hurt and Twenty
Injured.
COACH COMPLETELY WRECKED.
Chief Big Horse, Dying, Smoked a
Pipe and Showed No Sign Of Pain
Some Wild Scenes Witnessed.

haywood. ILL.,, April t-SlXty-tnree
Indians In a special ear en- route to
Washington to see President Roosevelt
were smashed into by a mail train two
miles west OF here today during fog.
Three OF the Indians were instantly
killed, three were fatally injured and
20 other were more or less seriously
hurt. The Indians who were not pinned
down in the wreck fed In panic across
the prairie,
The trains which cOlided we're the
Oregon express and the fast mail on
the Chicago & Northwestern railway.
The express train was run into by the
mail train. Both trains were east
bound.
Physicians We're promptly hurried to
the scene. AS soon as possible the in
Jured were taken to haywood and Chi
cago, All the victims OF the wreck
We're Indians.
The coach containing the Indians
was a light day car, Ii was complete
ly wrecked The rear end OF the coach
ahead was also damaged
HEROIC CHIEF WHITE HORSE.
After the collision the passengers in
the o.her coaches Of the two trains hur-
rled to the rescue and after hard
| struggle pulled the Injured from be-
| meath the wreCkage Chief White
Horse, IN charge of the Indians on the
train was fatally injured, The bodies
Of the Indians VINO had been killed OUT
right were laid on the prairie beside the
track Chief White Horse being car
ried with them. He said he knew that
| death was near and requested that he
be placed near his dead companions.
| The chief was propped up and sat sto-
! lcally while physicians worked over his
injuries. He smoked pipe quickly and
| showed no signs OF the pain he must
have been suffering, One by one the
other injured Indians We're slowly taxi
en- from the splntered car and placed
upon the ground near their dying chief
and dead comrades, The physicians
hurried from one to another of the in
jured administering to the wants OF all,
while arrangements were being made 10
take them TO the earest hospital.
' Persons who were on the train said
that the collision unQuestionably was
the result Of the dense fog which TODAY
stretched from Lake Michigan many
miles westward. In addition to the fog
clouds Of escaping steam enveloped the
wreck aud added to the difficulty OF res
cue.
4 SCENE OF WILD WELLS.
A moment otter the crash there was
not sound from the Inflated coach.
Then one by one those surviving the
| crash regalned In part their renses and
began shouting for aid, A terrifying
series OF Wild yells from the Indians
were heard by the passengers, jumping
from each side Of the cars ahead. All
the men passengers and many of the
women on board the two trains hast
cnad 20 the aid OF the injured Indians
The fact that one side Of the rear car
fell off with tho impact undoubtedly
saved the lives OF many Indians who
were thrown ont onto the prairie.
The Indians were from the Teserva-
ton near Rushyillc, Neb,, ana their
Journey east was primarily for show
purposes at New York
II was ptiable sight to see the IN
dams lying on the ground clad In their
native costumes with their red blankets,
dyed deeper by the blood OF their
friends. The mon were Of splendid
physique aud the exhibition ~ calm
nerve on the part Of White Horse was a
good example ot that OF the other mem
bers Of the Indian party.
THE DEAD
XIII Head. skull fractured
Philip Iron Tail Jr., body crushed.
Thomas Come Last, body crushed.
THE INJURED.
Big chief White Horse, body crushed
and legs broken, viii die,
Luther standing Bear. crushed about
body aud head. will die
Annie Goose Face, crushed about face,
win die
Mrs. Thomas Come Last, wife OF one
Of the Killed cut about head and
shoulders
Tommy Came Last, years old. son
Of dead man, head bumped and believed
to have been made temporarily Insane
from fright
sammy Lone Bear. head cut and body
bruised
Abraham Goodnow, cut about head
Blind Eagle, cut about head by ny
Ing glass.
Little Elk. head cut and bruised,
, Charge The Enemy head cut 0nC
= body bruised.
= Hear chief High Rear at the head Of
| the delegation Of SlouS,scyerely crushed
about the body.
William sitting Rull, son Of Chic
, sitting Bull y years old, seriously in
jurcd,
= After the bodies Of the dead had beer
, removed from the wreckage ana place,
ID IN a row ON the prairie beside tho track
, an incident probably unprecedented II
Y railway wrecks. took place The unin
r. iured among the indians gathered abou
= and. led hy chief Iron TAIL sollmnl!
! chantcd the Indian death song
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