The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-08
RED MEN IN
 A SMASH-UP Indians En Route to See
 Roosevelt. THE BIG CHIEF WILL DIE Three of the Ab0riglnes In-
 Stantly Killed. Those Not Pinned in the wreckage Flee in Panic Across the Prairie.
 About Twenty Are
 Injured.
THE BIG CHIEF WILL DII

Maywood, H., April 7.-Sixty-three In. dians in a special car en route to Was.l ington to see President Roosevelt, were smashed into by mail train, two miles west of here, today. during a fog. Three of the Indians were instantly killed, three were fatally injured and twenty others were more or less seriously hurt. The In- dians who were not pinned in the wreck fled in panic across the prairie.
 The trains which colllded were the Ore goA express and the fast mail on the Chi cago and Northwestern Railroad. Tho express was run into by the mail train. Both trains were east-bound.
 Physicians were promptly hurried to the scene. As soon as possible the injured were taken to Haywood and Chicago.
 All of the victims of the wreck were Indians.
 White Horse Will Die.
 Chief White Horse, in charge of the In- dians on the train. was fatally injured. The bodies of the Indians who had been killed outright were laid on the prairie beside the track. Chief White Horse bee ing carried with them. He said that he knew death was near and requested that he he placed near his dead companions. The chief was propped up and sat stoically while physicians worked over his injuries. He smoked pipe quietly and showed no signs of the pain he must have been suf- fering. One by one the other injured In- dians were slowly taken from the splin- tered car and placed upon the ground near their dying chief and dead comrades. The physicians hurried from one to an- other of the Injured, administering to the wants of all. while arrangements were be- Ing made to take the red men to the near est hospital,
 How It Happened.
 The following Is the official account of the wreck furnished by the company;
 This morning train No. 6, on the North western. from the west, running twenty minutes later on account of a dense fog. and having two extra coaches occupied by Indians en route from Nashville, Nen.. to New ork. was stepped at Meiroae Park, near Haywood, bysbiock signal, on account of train ahead oft. Fast mail No. 10, which carries no passengers, ran into the read end of No. 6.and one of the coaches containing the Indians was dam. aged by the collision. Three Indians were killed and twenty-three injured, three of them seriously The uninjured Indians were left at Haywood. and the injured sent to the hospital there.
 Persons who were on the train said that the collision unquestionably was the result of the dense fog. which stretched from Lake Michigan many miles west ward. .- ..... Wild Cries of Indians.
 A moment after the crash there was not a sound from the ill-fated coach. Then one by one those surviving regain ed in part their senses and began shout ing for aid. Terrifying cries and wild yells from the Indians were heard by the and many of the women on board of the two trains hastened to the aid of the injured Indians. The fact that one side of the rear car fell of with the impact undoubtedly saved the lives of many Indians who were thrown out on the prairie.
 After the bodies Of the dead had been from the wreek and placed in a row on the prairie beside the track, an incident probably unparalleled in railway circles took place. The uninjured among the Indians gathered about and led by Chief Iron Tail, solemnly chanted the h. dian death song"
 The Dead.
 Kill Head. skull crushed
 Philip Iron Tail, body crushed
 Thos. Comelast. body crushed
 The injured:
 Big Chief White Horse; will die.
 Luther Standing Bear; will die.
 Annie Gooseface. will die.
 Mrs. Thos. Comelast, wife of one of the killed. cut about head and shoulders Tommie Comelast. six years old. son of the dead, 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, 23 years old. cut about head by flying glass.
 Little Elk. head cut and bruised
 Charge The Enemy, head cut and body bruised.
 Head Chief Highball, at the head of he delegation. severely crushed
 William Sitting Bull. son of Chief Sit- ing Bull, 27 years old, seriously in- ured.