New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-08
INDIANS DEAD IN WRECK
SPECIAL CAR SMASHED.
Those Uninjured Chant Death
Song" around Dying Braces.

haywood Ill, April 7.-Sixty-three Indians in
special car on their way East were struck by
mail train two miles west of there to-day In
fog. Three of the Indians were instantly killed.
three were fatally injured and twenty others were
less seriously hurt.
The trains in collision were the Oregon express
and fast mail on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway The express train was hit by the mall
train Both trains oastbound. Physicians
were promptly hurried to the scene. As soon as
possible. the injured were taken to haywood and
Chicago.
All the victims of the wreck Indians. The
coach containing the Indians vas completely
wrecked The end Of the coach ahead was
also damaged. After the collision the passengers
IN the other coaches of the two trains hurried to
the rescue. and after hard struggle pulled them
from beneath the wreckage. Chief White Horse
in charge Of the Indians on the train, fatally
injured The bodies of the Indians who had been
killed outright laid the prairie beside the
track Chief White Horse being carried with them.
He said he knew that death was near, and re-
Quested to be placed his dead companions.
The chief was propped up. and sat stoically while
physicians worked his injuries. He smoked
pipe quietly, and showed no signs Of the pain ne
must have been suffering. One By one the other
injured Indians were slowly taken from the splin-
tered and placed upon the ground near their
dying chief and dead comrades
The following Is the official account OF the wreck
furnished by The company:
This morning train No. on the Northwestern.
from the west, running twenty minutes late on &C
count OF dense fog, and having two extra coaches
occupied by indians en- route rom the reservation
near Rushville, Neb., to New-York for show pur-
poses, stopped at Melrose Park near haywood
by block signal account of train ahead Of IL.
Fast mail No. TO- which carries no passengers.
ran into the end of No. 6, and one OF the
coaches containing the Indians was damaged by
twentythree injured. three Of them seriously. The
pilot and headlight Of the engine of No. 10 were
knocked Off. The uninjured Indians were left at
haywood and the injured sent to the hospital there
The Indians were members OF the Buffalo Bill
organization and at New-York were to embark for
England.
KILLED.
KILLED HEAD skull crushed
IRONTAIIA Philip. body crushed.
COafEIAAST. Thomas body crushed
INJURED.
WHITE HORSE. chief. body crushed and legs NrOksn'
STANDING BEAR. Luther crushed about body and
head. Will die.
GoOsEFACT3. Annie. crushed about body; win die.
CONIEIAAST Mrs Thomas. wife OF OF the killed.
about head and shoulders
COMELAsT Toumie. six years old. Of ths dead man.
head bumped and believed TO have been made tom
porarily insane from fright
LONE BEAR Sammy. head cut and body bruised
GOODIEOW. Abraham. cut about head.
BLIND EAGI.E twenty-thres years old; cut sbou,
head by flying glass.
LITTLE ELK head and bruised
CHARGE THE ENEMY. head and body bruised
HIGH BEAR chief. head OF the delegation Of
the Sioux: severely crushed about the body.
tyenty-seven years Old slightly injured
After the bodies OF the dead had been removed
from the wrec1age and placed IN row on the
prairie beside the tracks. the uninjured among the
Indians gathered about and led by Chief Iron Tail.
solemnly chanted the Indian death song.