The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-07
& INDIANS MEET
DEATH IN WRECK
Three Redmen Killed, Three
Fatally Injured and Twenty
Hurt.
North Western Trains Collide and
Coach Containing Nebras-
kans Is Destroyed.
Uninjured Gather Around Chief
Iron Tail and Chant Death
Song.

Indians In a special car en- route to
New York were run into by a mail
train two miles west Of here to-day
during fog.
Three Of the Indians were instantly
killed, three were fatally injured and
twenty others were more or less seri-
ously hurt. The Indians who were
not pinned in the wreck fed in a panic
across the prairie.
The trains which collided were the
oregon express and the fast mail on
the Chicago & North-W estern railway.
The express was run into by the mail
train.
Both trains were eastbound. Physi
clans We're promptly hurried to the
scene. AS soon as possible the injured
We're taken to haywood and Chicago.
All the victims Of the wreck were
Indians.
The Dead.
KILLED HEAD, skull crushed.
PHILLIP IRoNTAIL JR.. body crushed
THOMAS COMELAsT, body crushed
The Injured.
Big Chief White Horse, body crushed
and legs broken; will die.
Luther Standing Bear crushed about
body and head: will die.
Annie Gooseface, crushed about body;
| will die.
Mrs Thomas Comelast, wife of one Of
the killed; cut about head and shoulders
Tommie Comelast. years old, son OF
| the dead man, head bumped, and be-
lteved to have been made temporarily in
sane from fright.
Sammy Lone Bar, head cut and body
bruised.
Abraham Good Crow, cut about head.
! Blind Eagle, % years old, cut about
head by flying glass.
Little Elk, head cut and bruised.
Charge The Enemy, head cut and body
bruised.
Head Chief High Bear, at the head of
the delegation Of Sioux, severely crushed
about the body.
William Sitting Bull, son of Chief Sit
ting Bull. " years old, seriously injured.
Smokes While Dying.
The light day car containing the
Indians was wrecked. The rear end
| Of the coach ahead was also damaged.
After the collision the passengers in
q the other coaches Of the two trains
hurried to the rescue and after q
hard struggle pulled the Indians from
beneath the wreckage. Chief White
Horse, in charge Of the Indians on the
train, was fatally injured.
I The bodies Of the Indians who had
been killed outright were laid on the
prairie beside the track Chief White
Horse being carried with them. He
said he knew that death was near
4 and requested that he be placed near
his dead companions.
The chief was propped up and sal
stoically while physicians worked owe,
his injuries. He smoked a pipe quiet.
" and showed no signs Of the pain he
, must have been suffering.
/. Fog Caused Collision.
; Persons who were on the train sait
l ,1r10 III rry,
the result Of the dense fog whiol
stretched from Lake Michigan many
miles westward. Clouds Of escaping
steam enve1oped the wreck and added
to the difficulty Of rescue.
A moment after the crash there wa.
!. not sound from the Inflated coach
Then one by one those surviving tn,
crash regained in part their senses
and began shouting for aid.
A terrifying series Of wild yells from
the Indians were heard by the pas
sengers, jumping from each side O
the cars ahead. All the men AM
many Of the women on board the tw,
trains fastened to the aid Of the In
jured.
The Indians were from the reserva
ton near Rushville. Neb.. and thei
journey eastward was primarily 70
show purposes at New York.
It was a. pitiable sight to see tn
Indians lying on the ground clad il
their native garments. with their re,
blankets dyed deeper by the blood o
their friends. The men were Of splen
did physique, and the calm nerve o
White Horse was an example Of tn
After the dead had been remove,
from the wreckage and placed besid
the tracks, the uninjured Indian
gathered about and, led by Chief 1rol
Tail, solemnly chanted the India1
death Song"