Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 25, Hammond, Lake County, 22 June 1918 — Page 2

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LONDON HEARS OF ATTEMPT ON KARL

Amsterdam Bourse Gives the News Today Not Confirmed LONDON, June 22.-An unconfirmed report on the Amsterdam Bourse declares that an attempt has been made to assassinate EmperKarl, according to a Cen tral News dispatch from Amsterdam. 900,000 U. S. MEN IN FRANCE [By UNITED PRESS.] WASHINGTON, June 22.-The United States has passed the 900,000 point in crews overseas from American embarkpoint and are five months ahead of schedule, according to General March, chief of staff today. As for the general situation General March said the Central Powers are held but a renewal of the drive is momenexpected. He also praised the Americans who participated in the present struggle. Considering the Italian situation he aid there too, the Teutons are being held. The Austrian advantage, he pointed out, had been offset by flood which carried out the entire Austrian brigde system. Seven temporary bridges have been built Since them. Of the 900,000 men in France, 12,000 are Marines, March revealed. The lull on the French front is advantageous for the Allies because it permits them to replenish their man power. The Americans, he said, are adding much to this line. The total troops include these in France and on the high seas, combatant and non-com-In his praise he included the colored troops, national guardsmen, regulars and marines. CLAIM BATTLE HAS BEEN WON [UNITED PRESS CABLEGRAM.] ROME, June 22.-"It Is now permisto state that the battle has been won." Premier Orlando declared in the chamber of deputies last night. The bune announced today. The premier said that in pressing the counter offenat both points where the Austrians crossed the Piave the Italians have made additional important gains. That the renewal of the drive southward from the mountains is imminent was ndicated in the premier's declaration that the enemy is gathering all availmen on that front. 46 DEAD; 125 INJURED (Continued from page one.) pecial, two cars were telescoped and mashed to smithereens. It was from this debris that most of the wounded who in many cases were fearfully maimed were taken. One of the per0 Joe Coyle, one of the most noted clowns in the country, was thrown out of the third coach which had albegun to blaze. Still remaining in the coach were his wife and two children. Mrs. Coyle held out one of the children to her husband. "Oh, take me papa. I'm burning," the two year oldl said. Coyle fell in the burning embers and his wife and both children were consumed before his eyes. Coyle was pulled away from the fire but is not exto live at St. Margaret's hospital. The cries of the burning unfortunates were pitiful. Some were pinned in the debris in plain view of those who had escaped. Fire Chiefs Nill of Hammond and Grant of Gary made superhuman efforts to get water. They and their men carried some from an adjacent farm house but they might as well have e

spit in the flames. The cries grew fainter and fainter and the burning woodwork with the mattresses of the three-tiered berths made a funeral pyre for the unfortunate men, women and children. By this time a wrecker had arrived and the circus train flats bearthe equipment was dragged away from the holocaust. The rescuers beto arrive by the score and bodies of the dead, in many cases burned to fragwere put in funeral ambulances from Gary, and taken to morgues there. Eight bodies, three of them women, were burned to the torso. The empty troop cars were attached to an engine and loaded with the wounded, over 100, and taken to Gary hospital. About twenty wounded were taken in Hammond ambulances to St. Margaret's hospital. Four of them died in the hospital. Two of the injured died on the train going back to Gary. This train was like a shambles. Circus emwere there with broken backs and fractured skulls. The engineer of the Michigan Centrain was buried in the wreckage. The fireman was dazed and was last seen running towards the woods in an effort to escape. Harry Whipple, the Michigan Central train dispatcher. left Michigan City with the show last night and is among the missing. Among those missing and believed to

have been killed are circus star per-

formers whose names have been known to more than one generation of circus goers. The Cottrell family of bareback ridthe celebrated Rooney family of riders, the Meyer family, known the world over for their mastery over wild beasts, all are believed to have died in the wreck. Trapeze artists, aerial workers and the other thrillers, as well as the man agers of the show, could not be found when the survivors were checked up. Most of those in the Pullmans were the stars of the show, and it was among them that the heaviest loss of life occurred. The ballet, composed of more than 100 girls lost many in killed and injured. All the circus "hands" in the wreck were riding on the flat cars with the equipment. These were the cage men, canvas men and general helpers with the show. Some of the survivors, panic-stricken and running away barefooted in their night clothing, wandered to near-by houses, where the occupants, terrified when they learned the wreck was that of a circus train and fearing lions and tigers were at large in the countryside, opened their doors to admit the sufThey did what they could for the vicgiving rough medical aid to the slightly injured and furnishing them with what clothing they could lay hands on. Fear of wild animals was needless because all the menagerie was in a train ahead of the performers' special Their roaring that had awakened the villagers was only that of uneasy anion the move, and they were well ahead of the wreck Most of those who wandered from the scene of the wreck were found and were taken back dazed to the relief train Some, it is believed, may be listed among the missing who yet will be found in houses near the wreck. Many of the women required opiates before they could be quieted. LITTLE JOE COYLE'S LAST WORDS, "PAPA, HELP ME OUT" (Continued from page one.) Eddie Ward worked heroically to reshis partners. One of the ghastly sights following the wreck was the sight of two men, not identified, who were caught between two of the coaches, jammed together with mattresses about them. The mat tresses caught fire and the terrible countenances of the doomed men were framed in the flames, like martyrs burnat the stake. Their screams soundabove the moans and groans of all others about them. They were cremated. Lon Moore, a clown, fifty-two years of age, and one of the veterans of the Hagenbach and Wallace shows, was found by a reporter in the Gary Genhospital where twenty-six of the less seriously injured were taken, many kept there only because they have no clothes. "I was asleep in the first of the four coaches, next to the flat cars in the train," said Moore. "The crash awoke me and I realized we were beingn teleI grabbed a pillow and held it over my face and felt myself being drawn up into a knot. When I came to my senses I felt the body of a naked person over me-a corpse. Someone was breaking glass and it fell on me. Finalafter what seemed hours, I saw the face of Emil Swire, far above me. One by one people over me were removed and finally Swire grabbed my hand. It seemed impossible for him to get me out as I was almost helplessly pinned down. I heard that awful cry, 'Fire coming' and felt the stiffling heat and 1 believed I lost my mind. But that brave, true pal. Emil Swire stuck with me although the flames were hot about him and I was saved. I then helped plucky Mrs. "Spec" Enos rescue her husband. He was fastened tight and covered by blood. Then 1 saw Joe Coyle crazed because ho could not rescue his wife and children. They had joined the show to be with him a few days and going to leave for their home in Cincinnati, O., today." A. F. Roberts, ticket seller with the circus, was in the last sleeper of the circus train. "The first thing I remember,'' said Roberts at the Gary General hospital, "was timbers falling about me. I was not imprisoned and escaped easily. I saw people burned alive in one great flaming hell of tortured souls and conflesh. God, the awfulness of it. And how brave were the injured who aided m rescues." I do not know who was killed. Mrs. George Brown, wif of the trainmaster, had her ankl broken. Fred l.eggitt, boss wardrobe man escaped, and Immanuel, a candy seller had his leg crushed The Derick Brothers, who do a heavy lifting act, were both badly injured, but at least two of the three escaped." According to F. E. Bullard, superinof sleeping cars with the cirthe wreck must have occurred at eleven minutes after four o'clock. His watch stopped at that time and as it is of a good make and had always been reliable he is sure it must have stoppcd when the crash came. THOUSANDS OFSIGHTSEERS Street Cars Jammed; Roads Crowded with Machines; Hundreds See Bodies. Thousands of people flocked to th scene of the wreck at Ivanhoe, just east of the crossing of the Michigan Central and the S. J. & E. railroads. All day long the roads in the vicinwere lined with machines. Great crowds of curious sight-seers of HamGary and hearby towns watched workmen remove the remains of the four wrecked sleepers and take away bodies. It was 10 o'clock bethe fire was extinguished. Michigan Central trains were lined up to Gary and Hammond on both side of the wreck. Every doctor in the north end of the county was attending the wounded at the hospitals whore they were earned by trains, met by ambulances, jitneys and by police patrols. Even the Gary fire trucks were pressed into service. Hammond and Gary practically susbusiness. News of the wreck spread like wild fire. Collections of clothes were taken for the survivors whose efforts were destroyed by fire. One of the grewsome sights of the wreck was the frightened and injured negro circus roustabouts dancing inabout the fire, stark naked, and many of them covered with blood. They were finally wrapped in blankets tak-

from the berths of the twentytaken to huddled t Gary hospitals where they rorized by what they had been through and n the with Men Gary & Interurban line crowded the coming and going sight-seers. and boys clung to the ends of the in order to be transported to scene HITS INSURANCE COMPANY HARD Carl G. cyclist, wh Ki patric gged ode down the capit l a bicycle in Washington, wa one the first to arrive in Hammond. He insures all the high priced stars of the circus and has 125 policies out. It will hit his company, the North American Accident Company hard, as almost all the killed carried policies in his comSHE MADE A DISGUSTING SPECTACLE The debris and personal belongings,

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the pitiable "keysters," as they are not to see the matinee for there wa called in circus parlance, were strewn none. They were drawn by curiosity in the roadbed for car lengths. They

included women's hats, clothin f all descriptions and the little things that people whose homes are under their hats hold so dear. One of the disscenes was a young woman who picked up a woman's hat and put it on her painted head and did a dance one the right of way were many had been killed. It was learned that she was from Gary. CHICAGO OFFERS AID -The Chicago board of health th noon called Dr. W. A. Buchanan, secretary of the Hammond board of health and asked if doctors or nurses wer needed, offering any assistan sible. po WHIPPLE ESCAPES. Fred Whipple, Michigan Central trainmaster feared killed, escaped with injuries it was learned. He was on the caboose attached to th f the circus train rea 2 INJURED WOMEN AT GARY HOSPITAL Two women from the circus train is very seriously injured at the Gary Mercy hospital. One is Mrs. Geor W. Brown and the other Mrs. Enos. HAMMOND MAN KNEW PERFORMERS Among the first at the wreck followup the doctors, police and firemen were reporters for the Times and Will Hastings, who was well acquainted with many of the performers, having spent a two week visit at French Lick last winter where it was preparing to go out on the road, Hastings was much affected at the appalling fate sights and the of his friends. THESE WERE

HARD SLEEPERS taken in jitneys to hospitals and docSLEEPERS tor's offices. The severely injured numbered about fifty.

Perhaps the only humorous thing in connection with the tragedy was when Earl Blank of Peru, Ind., eight car lengths ahead came on the scene tw hours afterward and said he had slep through it all. He had been sleepin on a flat car. Another canvassman had n a more surprising experience. He was in a Ford car on a flat just one car length away from the burning cars and slept through the entire smashup. FAMOUS EQUESTRIENNE IDENTIFIED At Stewart's morgue this the corpse, Mme. Cottrell, most famous bareback rider was identified b wore around her neck. It contained her name on a a card and some valuables. She was a high salaried performer and traveled with her brother and his wife. THIRTY BODIES TAKEN TO GARY [BY GARY, Ind UNITED PRESS.] June 23.-At least fortysix persons were killed when the army equipment train on the Michigan Central railroad crashed headon into a circus train near Hammond. More than a hundred were injured. Thirty bodies have been brought to Gary. Fire broke out in the wreckage and many bodies were charred beyond recognition. Othare believed to lie in the debris Hospitals in surrounding towns are filled with injured. Doctors and nurses

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WOULDN'T YOU STOP IT IF YOU COULD?

from Chicago have been dispatched to According to railroad men the circu were sent to set flares. The equipment train which was said to be running at a speed of fifty miles an hour crashed into the circus train and wreckage was hurled hundreds of feet DEATH LIST MAY GROW OVER NIGHT ontinued rom page one.) by the overturned oil lamps in the last three coaches. The general mancar had electric lighting while the others were equipped with oil lamps, it was stated. Because of friends negroes are derting the show, it is stated. Five showed up for breakfast and only three at dinner, the chef reported. All the tents were up at the circus his afternoon with the exBig Top" in which the given. There were great ound the show grounds at grounds ception o big show owds a OVER HUNDRED INJURED MEN TAKEN TO GARY (Continued from page one.) safety a score of and both received head to foot. In the vestibu three negro porters injured companions ainful burns from of the coach stood f the empty troop train that crashed into the circus leepers. They looked at their burned hands helplessly. These colored boys from Texas had been among the first rescuers and they risked their own lives in helping others to escape. "Ah didn't know what to do fust," said Frank Clemons of Ft. Worth, who with L. Lewis and W. Dodson made up the trio. Beg to Die. "The fust woman ah came to kept crying 'touch me not, touch me not' and the fust man said, "let me be, I'm dying." We saw women burning alive and their screeches almost drove me mad. Oh, boss, it was so horrible ah can't tell about it. Ah will never work on a train again boss, never." The negro, his face lined with terror and creased by the pain from his burned hands, became incoherrent. In the coaches were naked negroes, circus workers clothed in underwear pajamas and night shirts, and nearly all were writhing in pain. The death rattle could be heard in many of the berths When the train reached South BroadGary, all the ambulances in the city were waiting together with half a hundred jitney busses and commandeermachines. With the first injured taken from the train doctors rushed to the Mercy, General and Steel Company hospitals. For forty-five minutes human forms were handed off the rear coach onto stretchers with mangled faces and limbs appearing beneath the Pullman blankets. Of the injured fifty were ble to were walk, with assistance, and there Engineer L. Sargent, Kalamazoo, enof the troop train, escaped unjured but his fireman, whose name could not be learned was severely inan one negro porter killed. J. E. Moyer, 817 Michigan street, Michigan City, was the conductor of the troop train. F. S. Whipple, trainmaster, was in the way car attached to the rear of the circus train and it is feared he was killed. His home is at Michigan City. MENAGERIE IS NOT HARMED

ternoon The menagerie of the Carl Hagenbeck shows was unharmed by the

k as it was in the first section wrec of the train. The first section of the train conof 28 coaches, including six pascoaches and the second section which was the one wrecked, had 30 coaches, including four passenger coaches. Both sections carried diners. STILL REMOVING DEAD At eleven o'clock the wrecking enere still removing debris from the track while another crew were working with a fire horse to put out th fire which had broken out afresh As the tangled mass of iron and smouldering timbers were lifted away by the immense cranes, other human bodies could be seen beneath the ruins. Fifteenth avenue was lined for fully half a mile with standing automobiles, many of which were from Illinois.

Thousands of people crowded the ropes

looking in awe struck wonder upon the grim sight. A force of patrolmen were constantly at work holding back the crowd. The news spread rapidly and people from points many miles away were among the visitors, Gary, Hammond, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Whiting nd So. Chicago furnishing large quotas. INCOMPLETE LIST OF BADLY WOUNDED WILLIAM BURNS, 14 Monroe street, Lockport, N. Y. ANDELL LEAMAN, Reading, Pa., a clown. JACK BAITY, Peru, Ind. GEOGE H. KOODMAN, 1620 W. 15th street. MA. ANDERSON, CHARLES ALLEN, no address. CHAS. ROBINSON, 630 East Broadway, Washington. WALTER RAINEY, (colored) Chillicothe. LEON MOORE, Defiance, O. F. E. BULLARD, Baraboo, Wis. JAME WOOD (colored), 154th W. Long st., Columbus, O. GEORGE BROWN, Denver, Col. PARSON WADDELL, first assistant boss. CARL GREEN, 116 Lysander street, Detroit, Mich. WILLIAM STREETER, no address. CHARLES BROWN, 352 Elm street, Buffalo. Buffalo. W. S. TRUMBILL, 127 Mass. street, Springfield, Mass. G. H. JOSS, Sydney, O. DEWEY MUNLEY, Lexington, Ky. CLARENCE HITCHCOCK, Lexington, Ohio. WM. DAILY, 43 Bradford st., Providence, R. I. A. BALL, no address. HENRY LOHNER, Toledo, O. WM. MICHEL, Beaver Falls, Pa. J. KUNER, no address. LEON MOORE, L. LEWIS, JOE COY, LON MOORE AND ART ADAIR. LIST OF DEAD IN HAMMOND ARTHUR DIERECK., strong man. JOE DIERECK, strong man. MAX DIERECK, strong man. HARRY MILLER, electrician. BESSE CAVANAUGH, aerial performer. SEB CAVANAUGH, electrician. MRS. JENNY WARD, aerial performer. MRS. COYLE AND TWO SONS. CHARLES ROONEY, bareback rider. FOUR UNIDENTIFIED DEAD, three men and one woman. FORMER TIMES EMPLOYE WITH THE SHOW Inquiries were made today regarding Gerald Hartlerode, formerly of Gary and Hammond, a former employe of THE TIMES, who was with the circus. Young Hartlerode was seen at West Baden, Ind., where the circus winterThere he conversed with Dr. T. J. Toner of Gary. PUT BLAME ON ENGINEER BY UNITED PRESS.] CHICAGO, June 22.-Officers of the Michigan Central today advanced the belief that the engineer of the equipment train was dead before the wreck occurred. General Passenger Agent Landman said "In no other way can I account for the fact that he ignored all danger signs. He ran past two block signals, wo red light signals and the usual fuzees. The engineer is missing. I believe he is the only member of the crew no alive. NOTE-The other member the crew told a TIMES reporter the engineer was not killed. TRIES IN VAIN TO SAVE BOY Lon Moore, the Hagenbach and Wallace circus clown, was crying when a Times reporter approached him on the relief train. "J. Coyle lost his family," he said. "The little boy, -Oh, if I could only have saved that little fellow. God, how Eugene Eno's wife worked to get him out. God, but she had the strength of six women. And she saved him, just before the fire reached the place." LENINE RESIGNED? ZURICH, June 22.-The Deutsches Tageblatt declares that Nicholas Lenin the Bolsheviki prime minister resigned. There is no confirmation source. from any

HAMMOND

YOUNG PEOPLE'S ELOPMENT [SPECIAL TO THE TIMES.] BUFFALO, N. Y., June 22.-Charles Raymond Epker and Mary M. Flaherty, both of Hammond, Ind., and Epker's sister, Miss Jessie M. Epker of Hammond, and Charles E. East Chicago, Ind., Funkhouser of ured marriage licenses this afternoon here at the city clerk's office. The two couples were on an auto tour and had been away from home for a week. THRIFT CAMPAIGN War Savings to Be the Sole War Cry in Gary for a Week. Gary is ready to star morning on another city campaign in the interest win the war against th again Monday wide patriotic of helping to Hun. Next week Gary will pledge herself to buy War Savings, Stamps, Hundreds of patriotic workers are to start out early Monday morning from the Commercial club to visit as nearly as possible evry person in the city outside of the industrial plants and special campaigns are to be conducted within the industrial plants by the industrial committees. All city captains are workers are asked to meet Campaign Manager Harry Hall at the Commercial club Monday morning between 8:30 and 9 o'clock to receive their supplies and final instructions for their part in Gary's $1,000,000 drive. The teams have been assigned their special territory and the canvass is to be thorThe patriotic citizens of Gary are urged to co-operate to the fullest possible extent in being prepared to meet the workers and make the largpossible pledges for the purchase of War Savings Stamps during the reof 1918. Women's Teams Off. The women's teams will work in the residential sections of the city while the city men's teams will push the canvass in the business section. The following women captains, representteams from numerous Gary womorganizations, were announced toMrs. J. P. Fox, Gary Woman's club; Mrs. Cargill, College club; Mrs. Kinnel, Civic Service club; Mrs. DorD. A. R.; Mrs Klumpner, Gary Musical club; Mrs. John Redmond, Catholic Women's league; Mrs. M. NusLadies' Auxiliary of Temple IsMrs. Reck, First Congregational church; Mrs. Morgan, First Presbytechurch; Mrs. V. M. Williams Christ Episcopal church; Mrs. Kahan, Temple Bethel; Mrs. M. F. Green, First Baptist church; Mrs. A. F. Wicks, CenChristian church; Mrs. Hanley, Jefferson School Parent-Teachers asMrs. L. Duke, Glen Park Parent-Teachers' association; Mrs. Hammond, United Presbyterian church Miss Prudence Wood, Allied Relief; Mrs. Sarver, English Lutheran church; Mrs. P. W. Seyl, Ambridge Red Cross unit; Mrs. J. Heydorn, Eastern Star; Mrs. J. J. Roberts, Tolleston Red Cross unit; Mrs. Brayton, First Methodist church; and Mrs. Mead, teachers of ity. The captains of the men's teams were announced several days ago. This should place about forty city ams in the field Monday and scores of workers. This organization co-oper-ating with the industrial teams should make a wonderful showing next week. Each team captain is to report at the Commercial club every day be11 and 12 o'clock in the morning, beginning on Tuesday morning. On account of the work starting on Monday morning no team reports are askThe A Wonderful Meeting. great patriotic meeting at the Gary theater last night made a fitting prelude to the big War Savings Stamp drive and the large audience in atheartily appreciated the strong address delivered by Dr. Frank Hering of Notre Dame. Mr. Hering's address was a strong appeal for patand sincere loyalty to the prinfor which we are fighting. City Chairman Hall of the War SavStamp campaign presided and inthe speaker, Mr. Oliver, state campaign manager, was present at the meeting. The Gary Red Cross nurses occupied places of honor on the platform with the members of the war savings executive committee, team captains and committee chairmen. [UNITED PRESS CABLEGRAM.] PARIS, June 22.-German raids were repulsed in the region of Belloij and Kautebrayl and in Alsaac. French troops took a German outpost capturing a number of prisoners.

June 22, 1918.

PASTIM TODAY GLADYS BROCKWELL THE DEVIL'S WHEEL" Showing how the soul of a woman rules the underworld of France. TOMORROW DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS "THE MATRIMANIAC' ' The Coolest Place in Town. RPHEUM Theatre HAMMOND, IND. Our Summer Policy: First five day pictures. Saturand Sunday Vaudeville. pecial Feature Attraction Today and Sunday D. B. BERG PRESENTS "Keep Moving A Miniature Musical Comedy. 10-People-10. Mostly Girls. Special Scenery, Catchy Music. The Regos Brothers Aerial Gymnasts. Billie Bowman Character Comedienne. Belmont's Warblers Imitations. Doorman & De Glenn After the Masquerade. Coming Monday and Tuesday OF AMBITION." DeLuxe Theatre TODAY "God's Country and The Woman" Eight Acts Manager's decision: A g picture. SUNDAY Mary Miles Minter in "A Bit of Jade" And Toto in "The Junk Man." MONDAY AND TUESDAY 10 acts Alice Joyce and Harry Morey "Within The Law" REGULAR PRICES. We are Registered Optome trists and Examine Your Eyes without the use of Drugs. Hammond Optical Co. 141 E. State St. Hammond No more washdays for my wife... they shorten life We are always at Your Service. Phone 134