The Mena weekly star., 1918-06-27
CIRCUS TRAIN IN
 DEADLY WRECK
Sixty Dead and fze in Hospitals as Result or Rear-End Collision at Gary. Ind.--Engineer and Fire
 man on One Train Arrested.

equipment train and a Wallace flag enbeck circus train, on the Michigan Central railroad at dawn yesterday, was increased last night to sixty. with the recovery of eight additional bodies aud the death of one of the circus troupe at Gary hospital One hundred and twenty-nine are in hospitals in Gary and Hammond.
 Few Bodies Identified.
 Thirty-eight bodies, all except one charred beyond recognition, have been placed in Gary undertaking estab- lishments. Twenty bodies have been taken to Hammond The Identification of all except few was not attempted yesterday: The identified dead: The Known Dead.
 Karl Michael Berry, Schnectady, N Y.: Mrs. Veronica Connors, Mrs. Jo- seph CoyIe and two sons, Cincinnati, O.; Miss Louise Cottrell, London, Eng land; John Collins, New Haven, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. D. Cattanack, Chicago; Arthur Derrick, Erickson, Md; Joseph Derrick, Max Derrick, Miss Jewell, Fred Ledgett. Henry Miller, Miss Louise Powell, Rose Roseland, John Rooney, Mrs. Jennie Todd, Blooming ton, III; Fred Whipple, Michigan City, Mich.
 Search of the wreck for bodies cons tinued.
 The troop train, travelling straight track. totally demolished three of the
 aimsy circus coaches and badly dam , aged fourth.
 According to reports to local au- thorities, the circus train pulled part
 way into switch and stalled there on account of hot box. The flagman , went back on the main track and set
 fuses as a warning of danger. The , circus train was in this position when
 the equipment train plowed into it's
 four sleepers, reducing them to pile
 of tangled steel and timbers. Fire, en- r gendered by the gas lighting system V of the circus train broke out almost n immediately and when rescurers reached the scene the entire wreckage was in flames. Clows, bareback rid. CTS, trapez performers and acrobats z many of them veterans in the circus world, perished in the crash. Other . victims were suffocated and burned al Survivors Were Frantic. hl Attempts of the Gary fire depart l. ment failed for lack of water. Surviv' ,e ors struggled about the wreck scream n ing for relatives or friends and only Ia force prevented some from rushing L. into the blazing wreckage. Hours aft
 CT the crash bodies, charred black ,o still were being recovered as the der
 ricks of wrecking trains thinned ou ,r the pile of debris.
 ia Joe Coyle, a clown, wept bitterl,
 as he lay on stretcher and told hoy 70 his wife and two babied had joine
 him only recently after months of ab f senee and how all three had bee i'd crushed to death at his very side. d "The kiddies had been so glad t
 see their daddy" he said. "I wis I I could have died with them"
 Wild rumors spread that sewers
 lions had escaped from the train t D the woods south of the wreck. Circu
 authorities said no wild animals. wer es on the train. They also discredited rt
 ports that one circus woman, dement,
 ed. had evaded the doctors and race
 oc into the woods clad only in nigh n- clothing
 l. The circus was to have played yes
 terday at Hammond.
 Flames Stilled Her Cries l. One woman, screaming h aeon 10 beneath the burning timbers when sh ,h saw the flames nearing those wh ,r were trying to release her, shouted
 "Get away!" Get away quick, or you in be burned, too" The rescurers wer n. unable to release the woman, and he ,s cries were stilled by the flames. aI Most of the dead showed only su in pericial injuries and evidently wer st killed by suffocation or burning.
 A rescue party found one woma | pinned beneath a rail with her hea ,d between two ties. She was dragge
 out and when the dirt was washe m from her face she opened her eye . unhurt except for broken nose an . bruised face.
 Wreck Burned for Hours. F There was no fire-fghting appara ?. tus at Ivanhoe and the wreck burne, e for hours. Those who were throw
 from the wreck stood helpless watch
 ing the horror. and some later wer < found wandering half erazed in tn '- woods, in their night garments.
 A woman. who lives only half [ e. block from the wreck. said:
 "The noise of the train sounded lik,
 q great explosion I looked out tn,
 window, everything was red witt flames shoting in the air. could heal ? cries of women and babies.
 T ran to the telephone and called
 the police station. fire department ana
 hospital.
 Women Helpless Under Wreck. Then 1 ran to the wreck anc helped all could. One little girl rar . to me, her left arm smashed. put ]. some liniment on it and put her into the first ambulance. was told that ! her mother had been burned. T could see women underneath the wreck, helpless. It was more than could stand and l left"
 II 4 number of the dead and injured are negroes employed as razor ha~lu