The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-16
RTSHED DOWN TO DEATH.
AN ACCIDENT ON AN INCLINED
PLANE AT CINCINNATI.

Nine People in the Car When the
Crash Came-Five of the Occupants
Killed and the Other Four Wounded
The Car Torn to splinters.
CINCINNATI, O., Oct. ia frightful
catastrophe occurred between ~ and l
o'clock to-day on the Mount Auburn
inclined plane. which lies at the head of
Main street, and reaches to hight of be-
tween 80 and 500 feet in a space of perhaps
. ooO feet or less. Two cars are en-
Moved, one on each track. They are
drawn by two steel wire cables
that are wound upon drum at the top
of the hill by an engine located there. Nine
Messengers had entered the car at the foot
of the plane and number were on the other
car at the top. The passage of the ascend
iDg car was all right until it had reached
the tor. when the machinery refused to
work and the engineer could not stop it.
DOWN LIKE LIGHTNING.
The car was drawn against the bumper,
the cables snapped in two and the car ran
backward down the incline at lightning
sneed. The crash at the foot of the plane
was frightful. A cloud of dust arose t1at
hid the wreck from view for a moment, but
whea it was dispelled, the scene was hor-
rible. The iron gate that formed the lower
end of the track on which the car rested
was thrown sixty feet down the street. The
TOP of the car was lying almost as far in
gutter.
A SHAPELESS WRECK.
The track and floor and seats of the. car
formed a shapeless wreck mingled with the
bleeding a d manged bodies of nine pas
sengerS Two were taken out dead. One,
a middle-aged lady with gray hair, VS.
recognized as Mrs. Ives. The other, a
daughter of Henry Oscamp. n Kneiss, a
teacher living at No. IA Euclid avenue,
died sJon afterward.
THE OLDEST INCLINE.
This inclined plane is the oldest in the
city. 1t was built twenty-one years ago,
and this is the first accident attended with
loss of life at any of the four inclined planes
that are in almost constant use. 1t is too
early for an examinati n into the trouble
with the engine, but there have been only two
similar cases IN the history of inclined
planes here. In both of the others the
engine was gotten under control before the
cables were broken. Perhaps the most hor-
rible condition of any, except the nine on
the descending car, was that of the pasSen-
gers on the other car at the foot of the
plane. They were locked in, as is always
the case, aud were compelled to await the
coming of the other car and its inevitable
crash beside them at the foot of the track.
THE DEAD.
The list of dead stands:
judge w. NJ. DICKSON.
Mrs. CALEB IVES.
Miss LILLIAN OSCAMP.
MICHAEL KNEISS.
JOSEPH HoCHSTETTER.
THE WOUNDED.
The wounded are:
CHARLES MCFADDEN, both legs broken.
JOSEPH MCFADDEN, cut on the side and
various portionsof the body, and internally
injured.
MRS. HoCHsTETTER, cut and slightly in
jured.
MRS. JOSEPH MCFADDEN.
TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL
The wounded were taken to the Cincin-
natl hospital.
Charles Goebel, who was the man at the
lever, who had the unspeakable horror to
find uimself unable to stop the engine, says
that he complained that the cutoff was not
working properly. 81 told the engineer
about it this morning." he said. land the
engineer told me he had repaired it. But it
was evidently still out of order, and this
must have been the cause of the accident. {"
Engineer Howard Worden could not be
found, though this is not considered as evil
dence that he is hiding. The confusion
ah lut the place was very great for a con-
siderable time. Coroner Rendigs will
make thorough investigation Of the cause
OF the aCcidant