Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — SATURDAY WAS ANNIVERSARY OF THE PURDUE WRECK. [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY WAS ANNIVERSARY OF THE PURDUE WRECK.

Saturday, November 1, was the sixteenth anniversary of the Big Four wreck at Indianapolis in which nine Purdue football players were injured and three hundred other persons seriously injured. The train had left | Lafayette carrying the Purdue team and its followers to Indianapolis, where the Purdue team was to meet Indiana university in the annual ‘game between the two institutions. The wreck occurred just as the train reached the suburban section of Indianapolis. In rounding a curve the train ran into a. train of coal cars. 1 The wreck was tone of the worst tragedies that ever .occurred in the history of the state and will well be remembered by Rensselaer people.