Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-16
THEIR DEATH RIDE
Fl'lghtful Accident o:t un In.
 cline Railroad.
TIVE PASSENGERS WEREKILLED
The Oar Struck the Bumpers, Breaking
 the Gable.

1t Falls With Awful Velocity on tl,e Mount Auburn slide In Cincinnati-.The l'assen- gers in t'o Car ,scrr'biy iasngied One of
 ehe Victims a Common rlcas Judge Ugly kunnrs Ahou. tlse .H:.ei,in.ry. ClNCINAATI, Oct. lt.--Cne of tho most l awful accidents that Cincinnati has known occurred Tuesday. \ car con- tainlng eight persons Lad just r-;.ch ed the top of. the Mount Auburn incline when the steel clamps that were to hold it i'll place gayo Way. The car shot down 7uo feet to the bottom, dcscend- ing q grade thst has an angle of twenty five degrees.
 At the bottom the track ends in d sort of basin walled in with heavy masonry. The car, as is dashed into the basin, was ground into bits Tho roof was thrust forward with such force that 1t came off as if it had becn out with a great knife and flew on across the street as if shot from a cata. putt
 Along the track was frighttu1 sipht. Nine bleeding and in some caso, almost dismembercd bodies lay amony the de- brls.
 A vast crowd was quickly on tho spot, and the work of rescue began. The scene as the bodies wore taken out was heartre nding: Much time was consumed i'll Identifying the dead owing to thoir mangled condition.
 Joseph McFadden, an old man. was first taken out. He was crushed into a shapolesS mass.
 M. kreiss, teacher in Mt. Auburn school, had his chest smashed in. but his lace was not even scratched lie was dead.
 Judge William Dickson, one of the leading jurists of Ohio was found In pile of .splinters and mud. His eyes had almost been forced out of their sockets. His skull was crushed and the internal injuries he received were sutn- cient to Xiii him.
 Mrs. Caleb Ives, an egod lady of great Wealth, was killed by her neck being broken.
 Mfrs. Shaffer was also killed by inter. nal injuries. She was about to become a mother.
 v, William McFadden, son of Joseph Nc Fadden who was killed, had his foot crushed and received internal injuries cf which he is dying.
 Mrs. Augusta w. Uostetter wife of prominent merchant Is seriously in- Jured.
 Miss Li1lie Oskamp, one of the hand somest girls in the city, daughter of HcHfy Oskamp, the furniture dealer, was in the car on her way home from eolPege.> She was horribly mangled. Her scalp was torn from her forehead one of her eyes Was gouged out, her nose was split open and her mouth crushed. She is lying at the hospital in Q dying condition.s
 The Coroner took possession of the incline and sent the United States In- spector of Steam Vessels and Henry korb, engineer at the courthouse, to make an Investigation to learn the cause of the accident.
 It is reported that the engine at tho incline has been out of order for several days and the pilot on the car, Charles Goeb ebel, told tho engineer to lookout for the .'eut off, yesterday, and was told that it had boon repaired Goebel says that Wa, the cause of the accident. . Howard Word> >ndieth, the engineer, Is new man said to have been employed because he worked for less wages than tho old engina,,r, who was in charge of of the Incline for years.