Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-16
DASHED TO DEATH.
Frightful Accident on an
Inclined Road.
NINE PERSONS IN THE WRECK
Five of them Killed and Others
Badly IDjured-An Engineers
Carelessness.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD
CINCINNATI, October 15.-One of the
most appalling accidents ever known or
the inclined plane railways of this city
happened today between IL and l o'clocl
on the Mount Auburn inclined plane
1t lies at the head of Main street and
reaches to height of between 250 and
300 feet in distance of 1000 feet. Two
cars are employed, one on each track.
drawn by two steel wire cables around
an iron drum at the top of the hill by an
engine located there.
Nine passengers had entered the car
ct the foot Of the plane today, and a
number were in the other Car at the
top. The passage Of the ascending
car was all right until it reached
the top, when, to his horror
the engineer found that the machinery
would not respond and he could not stop
the engine. Only one result was posi-
BILE. The Car was arrested by the strong
bumper which stops it's progress, and as
the engine continued with all it's force
expended on the two cables they snapped
like thread.
THE FRIGHTHUL DESCENT.
Then the car, with it's nine inmates
locked within, began the descent of that
frightful slope, striking below with an
awful crash. At the foot of the plane the
iron gate that formed the lower end of the
truck, on which the car wheels rested,
was thrown sixty feet down the street.
The top of the car was almost as far in
the gutter as the truck Itself, aud the
floor and seats of the Car formed q
shapeless wreck, mingled with the
bleeding and mangled bodies Of the pas
sengers. Two were taken out dead, q
middle.aged lady, Mrs. Ives, and young
girl, Lillian Oskamp. Another, M.
Kneiss, teacher, died soon afterwards.
Five others were injured, perhaps fatally.
One man escaped miraculously with but
slight injury.
A DISTINGUISHED VICTIM.
Judge William Dickson, who was on
the car, was too old to escape from such
q terrible shock, and was ore of the first
of the wounded to die. He is a we'll
known attorney, retired for number of
years. He was a warm personal
friend of President Lincoln. Judge
Dickson is the first man who sug-
gested the name of General Rose
Grams to President Lincoln for appoint
ment, and Rosecrans was made General
as result. He was lifelong friend Of
Dickson.
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.
Charles Goebel, the man in charge of
the car, says he informed the engineer
that the cutoff for stopping the car was
not working properly. The engineer
said he had fixed it, but it was evidently
still out of order. Engineer Howard
Warden could not be found after the
accident.
As soon as could be done the dead
were taken to the morgue to await full
Identification. The wounded we're car
ried to the nearest places where an ex-
animation could be made.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED
The list of the dead now
stands: Judge William Dickson,
Mrs. Caleb Ives, Miss Lillian Oskamp,
Michael Kneis, Joseph Hochstetter.
The wounded are: Charles McFadden,
both legs broken; Joseph McFadden,
cut on the sides and various portions Of
the body, and internal injuries; Mrs.
Hochstetter, cuts and internal injuries !;
Mrs. Joseph McFadden.
Joseph McFadden died at 2:20.