New-York tribune., 1918-06-24
Many Bodies Charrcd Be-
yond Recognition in
Wreck Near Gary
Inquest Held To-day
Fireman May Testify; Engi-
neer Under Guard at
Kalamazoo

GARY, Ind, June 23.-Sixty-t
bodies Of the Hsgenback- Wallace Circus
employees who were killed in the wreck
six miles west of here on the Michigan
Central Railroad early Saturday Law in
temporary morgues here and at Ham
mond, Ind, tonight, while circus Off
GERS made efforts to compile an accu-
rate list of dead and injured. Only
twenty-four of the bodies had been
Identified. Most OF the others arc
eharrcd and mangled beyond recog-
milton.
Edward NJ. Hallard, general manager
of the circus, tonight said that prob
ably cighty-hve persons had been killed.
He said a hasty tabulation of scattered
employees showed that sixty are missing
in addition to the twentyfour iden-
tilted dead. Most of the missing were
said to be "razorbacks," many Of them
negroes. r. S. Whipple, railroad train
master also has been given up as dead
Parts of two bodies crenated in the
furnace of tangled steel and timbers,
which was the circus train, were dug
out tonight. The authorities said that
if the death list is as great as esti.
mated by circus men, the additional
bodies probably were reduced to ashes.
An inquest will be held at Hammond
tomorrow, and Gustave Klauss, fire.
man Of the troor train of empty Pull
mans, has been ordered brought to
Hammond to testify.
1--WE will have the engineer. Alonzo
K. Sargent. present when we arc ready
for him." said Deputy Coroner Greene
of Lake County. Sargent is being held
in Kalamazoo, Mich. Neither man was
injured.
New York and Chicago theatrical me
and officers of the Showncn's League
sent representatives. hero to-day to
offer assistance to the injured and to
relatives of the dead. Plans were dis
lot in which all unidentified victims
would be buried under single monu-
ment.
None Of the $4,000 in cash reported
by circus officers as being lost in the
wreckage was recovered.
The revised list of known dead fol-
lows:
James Connor. baggage superintend-
cnt Of horses, Bliss, Okla; Mrs. Verns
Connor, Wild West rider, Bliss, Okla:
Arthur Diericks, Joseph Diericks and
Max Freehand, Erickton, Md; Jennie
Ward, Bloomington, ILL.,; Eddie Devoe,
clown. New York; Mona McDhy, equcs-
trienne. Michigan; Virgil Barnett
rider. Bliss, Okla. Nellie Jewell. ami
nal trainer. Washington, D. c.
Also Louise Cottrell. equestrienne
London; Mrs Joseph Coyle. Cincin-
natl; Joseph Coyle. jr., eleven. Gin
.cinnsti; Charles Covle. three, Cincin-
natl; Jeb Cattanacs. electrician, Chi
cago; Mrs. Bessie Cattanacs, aerolist,
Chicago; Mrs. George Brown. eques-
trienne, Denver; Leroy Jessup, Toledo:
Henry Miller. animal trainer, New
York: Charles Rooney. bareback rider
Chicago; Earl Michael Berry. Schenec-
tady, N. y, and Henry Hanson, West
Raden, Ind.
An attempt to remove Fireman
klauss from Michigan City to Ham
mond tonight met with failure. Acting
Coroner Henry c. Green sent a deputy
TO summon klauss, but the man re.
turned to report that Klauss had gone
10 Kalamazoo, Mich, where Engineer
Sargent is awaiting summons to the in
quest set for tomorrow.
1t is expected that by tomorrow cir
Gus officials will be able to furnish ar
authentic list of the missing. Tn,
time sheets, it was said, will be avail
able at Reloit, Wis, where the shov
had been booked to play Tuesday.