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house, spectators stared horrified as the giant east stands began to crumble to the floor. The cheering turned to shouts, then cries of alarm and screams of agony as hundreds were caught beneath the boards of tumbling stands. “Organize Rescue Squad James 8S. Miles, faculty member who was at the microphone of the public address system, asked the crowd in the permanent stands to remain quiet. His calm pleas for order were credited in ‘helping avert a panic. G IL students and some members of the basketball team rushed into the collapsed stands and began! helping extricate fellow students, many of whom were pinned under’ heavy 2x8 timbers. fo Sports Announcer Ward asl who had been broadcasting a half-time recapitulation, paused a moment on the air, Radio listeners then heard him say: “The east stands have just collapsed , . . there may many inJured people . , . any ambulance services listening to this broadcast | please come immediately.” A half dozen war veterans, who had served as aid men in the army, !
SILENT AFTERMATH — Like jumbled matchsticks, the east bleachers in Purdue rivers Mioldhouss lay silently behind locked doors this morning. University officials today prepared to probe the ‘cause of collapse of the stands last night under 3400 spectators at the Purdue- Wisconsibestetbal game, Kling two and i injuring 250. 250.
organied a rescue squad. Ambulances from Lafayette and surrounding towns began to arrive. Injured were carried on stretchers or on sections of seating and rushed to hospitals where cots were set up in corridors. »Approximately a dozen students | were treated at the university infirmary. All of them were released. Many of the injuries were broken arms, legs, wrists, ankles ribs and collarbones. Spectators on the top rows fell upon those seated toward the center. Many legs were eavght between the seat boards and footrests which | folded, together like an accordian. Others were painfully crushed by the weight of other students. The dirt floor beneath Lhe stands minimized the toll of dead and in-| jured. Most of the 3400 spectators in the | stands were able to extricate them- | selves. They walked on the floor, looking dazed and bewildered. “It didn't seem to be real,” some of them kept saying. “It was like
a dream. You knew what was hap- |.
pening and you just sat there and felt yourself go down and you wondered if you were going to get hurt.” High Scheel Grid Star One student sitting on the row next to the top said he became aware of what was happening immediately and raised his legs. Then he grabbed his wife’s legs to save them from being crushed. A student with a broken ankle chatted and smoked a cigar as he lay stretched on the basketball floor. Near him was a coed who smoked a cigaret and said she hoped her wasn't broken. “But I'm d it is,” she added. Theodore Nordquist, 25, Lafayette,
a Purdue student, and Kenneth Mo
Larson and Glenn Catt, addresses unknown, were in “critical condition at Home hospital. Kenneth L. Wilson, commissioner of western conference athletics, said he would confer with Wiscon-! sin and Purdue athletic officials before deciding whether the game, will be replayed or cancelled. The decision may have an important | bearing on the outcome of the Big Nine title race. Mr. Wilson said the situation was unprecedented. Tom Johnston, Purdue publicity director, sald parents of all students seriously injured had been notified. Mr. Gelhausen, who was fatally | crushed under the full weight of the falling stands, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Gelhausen of Garrett. He was a high school football star in Il. star In IML. _
Kaadt Loses Round In License Fight
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—The orders of the Indiana | state board of medical registration! and examination in revoking the | license of Dr. mained in &fect today. Judge Lowell Pefley ruled in! Whitley circuit court yesterday that a temporary -injunction against | the board, the Better Business | bureau at Indianapolis and Whitley | County Clerk Charles White should be set aside. - This left in effect the board's order revoking the medical license of the operator of a diabetic clinic. Dr. Kaadt’'s license was revoked recently when: the board charged him with “fraud in the practice of medicine.” He fought the revocation order and Judge Pefley first granted a temporary injunction restraining | the board from carrying out its | order.
Troops Arrive Depart New York
NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (U. P.)— Ship movements scheduled today in New York harbor:
Arriving—Zebulon Vance (troops) from Bremerhaven, Wisconsin from Le Havre,
no report as to their conditions.
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Purdue Casualty List |
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Homer, John 8., no address. Stalk, George, no address. Dome, Morgan, no address. Potter, George, no address. Bannwart, Edward, no address. Fifteen were released after first aid at Home hospital: Stuff, Mary Alice, no address. Kuehn, Richard, Brownstown. Query, Robert, Lafayette. Bamard, Edward, no address. Graf, Fred, Bloomington. Nosko, John, Gary.
Sammer, Anna, no address. der. Miller, Paul, broken leg. | g
Nesbitt, Helen, Richmond. Klein, John, Logansport. Walker, Rodgers, Madison. Milligan, Ralph, Waveland. Reid, Richard, R. R. 9, Indianapolis. Lee, Edmund S., Dayton, O. McConaha, Jerry, West Lafayette. | Craig, Mrs. Don, no address. St. Elizabeth's hospital was “too | busy” today to revise its casualty list. Purdue university reported approximately 90 persons there, with
In St. Elizabeth are: ST. ELIZABETH HOSPITAL
Adams, Ralph E, injured head. Applegate, Lowell, New Waverly. Anderson, Eugene, Elkhart. * Andrews, Mrs. R. Ade, James, Lafayette. Atwell, Charles, Wolcotville. Applegate, William R. Beach, George. Beane, Mrs. John, bruised leg. Russell, Robert, 2357 N. LaSalle
st., Indianapolis.
Blatt, Robert E., Webster Grove, Brooks, Mrs. Marybelle.
Brick, Ruth. Ball, R. D,, Auburn. Bair, Wilford, Kentland. Crain, Don, Logansport. Carlson, John, injured legs. Carlin, Jack, Ft. Wayne. Carlin, Pauline. Darnell, Prank, South Bend. Dean, Billy. Drake, Mrs. Margaret, left leg in-
Davidson, James, Corydon. Dieter, Mary J., South Bend. Deuchler, Phillip, Highland Park,
Ennen, Wayne R., Terre Haute. Ehrichs, Ruth. Feover, Laurence. Feller, Lloyd, Corydon. Feller, Mrs. Dorothy, Lanesville. Fewver, Harlan, Batesville. Feldman william J., East Chi-!
a Charles, chest injuries. Gold, Leonard. Glover, James A., Polson, Mont. Gutknecht, Lowell, 759 N. Campbell st., Indianapolis, back injuries. Groshans, M. W. Greer, Bill. Harris, John, Evansville, leg in- { juries. Harrell, Pat. Hendrix, Thomas F., Atlanta, Ga. Harruff, Patricia, Ft. Wayne. Jackson, William, Lafayette, fractured skull. Key, Irwin, Gary., Kniege, Edna, fractured foot. Loverfer, Irvin.
Lichtenheld, John P,, Elmhurst, Ill. |
Lictenfield, Seymour, Gary. Luczak, Connie, East Chicago. Maurlen, Wesley or Wesley, Maur-
N.Y.
N. Y., back injuries. {
Ind., ankle injuries.
tured pelvis.
Massimillian, D. J., Niagara Falls, |
Michelson, D. G., first aid. McIntyre, Hugh, Huntington, Lafayette
Mitchell, J. R., Prof,
Mavis, James, , Wisconsin Rapids, |
May, Mrs. Vode broken ribs, Miller, Mrs. J. T. Miller, J. D., Hampton, Va. Mitchell, Betty, Lafayette, Ife
Mehan, Mrs. W., dislocated shoul)
| Mc¥atridge, Walter, Kokomo. § | Mahan, Martha A. Orleans. Mikelson, Dwane, South Bend. | Molandra, Anthony. : | Lafayette, !
Nelson, Mrs. Peggy,
broken ankle.
Nelson, Joseph, Lafayétte. | Overshiner, Donna, Summitville. Paterson, Everett. * Prange, William L., Hardin, Ill. | Pond, Eleanor, Corning, N. Y. Riddell, Frederick, Milwaukee, Wis. Rapp, John, Fostoria, O. Riedel, Arlyne. Recek, Charles, Shirley, Bill, Bedford, bady injuries. Smith, Mrs. Margaret. Seifert, Raymond, Mt. Vernon. Semmes, Clovis, Lafayette, Shafer, H. F. , Sprowl, Arthur, 1247 N. King ave, Indianapolis. Tengdin, John, Kansas City, Mo.! Wegrich, O. G., Lafayette. Wesling, Albert, Buffalo, N. Y. Waixel, Robert, Bremen. ; Wood, Wallace, Chicago, Ill. Ward, Betty, broken ankle. Young, Warren, Neoga, Ill. Utley, Elmer, Michigan City. Gunther Marcia. Fuller, James, Monte Vista, Cal. Hobson, Mrs. Frances, dislocated left shoulder. Ruby, James, injured ankle, Calleer, broken leg.
leg and
leg. MeCreary, Robert, injured ankle. Collier, F. E., injured leg. Tuller, James, back injuries. Hall, sprained ankle. PURDUE UNIVERSITY INFIRMARY Purdue. university infirmary still listed eight students as patients this morning. They are: Anderson, Loretta, Chicago, back
VICTIM—One of two who lost their lives in Purdue bleach-
ers collapse last night was Roger Gelhausen of Garrett, freshman navy veteran, who was crushed to death,
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I didn't.” The others went to the game. As tears streamed down her face, Mrs. Carlin told how it happened. “We were sitting in the sixth row near the center of the bleachers,” she said. “Roger said ‘I'm I to duck out for a smoke, sis’
and Loren said he'd go with him. |
“Roger slipped underneath the stands. That was the shortest way out because everybody was starting to leave and move around, you, know.
“Then we all went down and
{T knew Roger was under there and
I screamed.” Mr. Modisett said he started to
(stands when he felt the whole structure tremble “like an earthquake.” Mr. Gelhausen was extricated |
pulled away from him, He was un-
| conscious, with a fractured skull.
He died on the hardwood floor
‘under the brilliant floodlichts as
volunteers were aiding the m-|
jured. oS
injuries. Brenner, David, Laclede, Mo, back | injuries. Galati, L. H., Seymour, mouth injuries. Katz, Adolph, Newark, N. J!
sprained ankle. Knight, J. A, Ft. Wayne, leg ine)
Rasher, William, Kentland, lacerations. Shendrick, M. M., Gary, leg in- | juries. ?
BOOK PAPER LEADER DIES ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Feb. 25 (U.
mayor of Englewood and Gloster, N. J, and a leader in the paper industry, died here yesterday. He| was president of the Book Paper
len.
association for many years.
P.) —Clarence A. Clough, 64, former |
after bodies and timbers had been
H. S. Semi-Finals Up in the Air
At Purdue March 15 (Continued From Page One)
{inspection of the semi-permanent | bleachers at the Butler fieldhouse. | John Barnett, assistant to the | president, pointed out today’s in- | spection is an added precaution as {the bleachers are inspected regularly before every tournament and after every change in location. | The east and west bleachers in the Butler fieldhouse rest on steel {supports which are anchored on | concrete blocks. The smaller north jand south bleachers are of the same construction with the exception that they rest on the dirt
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fieldhouse floor. Authorities at Indiana university |
no instructions from the I. H. 8.|
A. A. to change either the date or the site of tourney play: The I. U. fieldhouse uses a 20-tier bleachers setup which is supported in part by steel crossbar supports. The bleachers rest on the dirt fieldhouse floor, well back from the playing court.
Senate Kills e Kills Bill
To Reduce Dog Tax
It's a dog’s life! The state senate wrangled more than an hour yesterday over a dog
Senator Lucius Somers (Rr. Hoag(land) wanted to give the Humane | Society a cut of the state dog tax [ fund, currently used to pay for damages done by dogs. Minority Floor Leader Walter Vermillion (D. Anderson) wanted to let well enough alone or “reduce
Buir, Bill, lacerated and bruised ; ou Mr, Gelhausen beneath the the dog license tax if the state has
more money than it can use’ Senator Vermillion won. The bill
| was killed.
{ERRATIC ECONOMY FORESEEN WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (U. P.).— Murray Shields, vice president of the Bank of Manhattan Co., predicts a fluctuating economy in 1947 with ‘prices remaining substantially ‘above the pre-war level.’
Hovde Offers Sympathy
| To Parents of Victims
Frederick L. Hovde, president of
jury. Purdue, issued the following stateLomont, Lavonne, Ft. Wayne, leg| ment last night: ‘ injury. “Tonight's = fieldhouse tragedy
has plunged the entiré university into unspeakable sorrow. Our | deepest sympathy goes especially to the parents of ‘our students
who lost their promising young lives and to all those who were injured or suffered from shock. “Fhe students and others in the stands were magnificent in their conduct throughout the tragic hour. There was no panic, | ho hysteria. Members of the city and state police, the fire depart-
Departing—Jutlandia for Copen(troops) to . Bremerhaven,
. HE WAS SURPRISED LONDON, Feb. 25 nonchalant” thiet who said the boss told him “to move all this stuff” from an antique shop didn't know : flo Yas faking ie the ines, He was led,
| ‘ JOHN F. HORNER (U. P).—A .
4134 Hinesley ave.
~~ INJURED AT PURDUE — Among 250 spectators hurt in crash of ble were above students from Indianapolis. Mr. Horner has broken ankle; Mr. scalp wounds, and Mr, Sprov undetermined injuries. CT
LOWELL E. GUTKNECHT 59 N. Campbell ave.
ROBERT BUSSELL 2537 N. LaSalle st.
ments, the university and the hospital staffs should be highly commended for the manner in which they met the crisis, caring for our injured with skill -and dispatch. = “The fleld house has been closed until a careful investigation of the cause of the failure of | the stands can be determined. These newly purchased stands were not, according to members of the athletic department, loaded beyond their rated capacity as specified by the manufacturers and approved by ‘the appropriate
state offices.”
ARTHUR SPROWL ..1247 King ave. .
achers last night at Purdue universit Gutkoscht, back injuries; Mr. Busse,
where the semi-finals are sched-| uled to be played March 15, have
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