Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1904 — INDIANS KILLED IN WRECK [ARTICLE]

INDIANS KILLED IN WRECK

Were on the Way to Waxhlnyton to See President —Chief White Horse, Fatally Injured, Smoke* HU Pipe. Maywood, HK, April 7.—Sixty-tbree Indians in a special car en route to Washington to see President Roosevelt, were smashed into by a mail train two miles west of here Thursday during a fog. Three of the Indians were Instantly killed, three were fatally Injured, and twenty others were more or less seriously hurt The Indians who were not pinned in tbe wreck fled in a panic across the prairie. After the collision the passengers In tbe other two coaches of the two trains hurried to the rescue, and after a hard struggle, pulled them from beneath the wreckage. Chief White Horse, in charge of the Indians on the train, was fatally injured. Tbe 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 death was near and requested he be placed near his dead companions. The chief was propped up and sat stoically while physicians worked over his Injuries. He smoked a pipe quietly and showed no signs of the pain be must have been suffering.