, 1889-10-16
HURLED TO ETERNITY.
Frightful Accident on a Cable
Line in Cincinnati.
A Car Descends a Steep Hill
With Terrible Velocity.
Five Passengers Hurled to Sud-
den Death.
An Appalling Crash.

CINCINNATI, Oct. l5.-The most ap-
palling accident ever known on the incline
plane railways of this city happened to-
day between IL and l O'Clock, on the
Mount Auburn incline plane. 1t lies at
the head of Main street and reached to
a height OF between $50 and 300 feet in
a space of 1000 feet. Two cars are EN-
ployed. one on each track, drawn by two
steel wire cables wound upon a drum at
the top of the hill by an engine. Nine
passengers had entered the car at the foot
OF the plane and u number were in the
car at the top. The passage of the as
ceuding car was all right until 1t reached
the top when. to his horror, the engineer
found the machinery would not respond
and he could not stop the engine. Only
one result was probable-the car would be
arrested by the strong bumper which
stops its progress. and as the engine con-
.inued all its force was on the two cables
and they snapped like wrapping thread.
Then the car, with its niue inmates
locked within, began to descend that
frightful slope. The crash at the foot OF
the plane was frightful. The iron gate
that formed the lower end of the truck on
which the car rested was thrown sixty
feet down the street, and the top of the
car almost as far In the gutter. Tie truck
itself and the floor and seats of the car
formed a shapeless wreck mingled with
the bleeding and mangled bodies of the
passengers.
Two were taken out dead, a middle
aged lady, Mrs. Ives, and a young girl,
Lillian Oskamp. and another. Michael
Kneiss, a teacher, died soon afterward.
Five Others were injured. perhaps fatally.
One man escaped ~miraculously with but a
slight injury.
The names Of the injured have not yet
been fully ascertained. Hon. j. B. Hol-
lister and McFadden are said to be two of
them Judge HOLSTER is nearly 20 years
of age and can hardly survive such a
shock.
As soon as could be done the dead were
taken to the morgue to. await full identi
~fication and the wounded were carried to
nearest places where an examination could
be made.
A later dispatch says: 1t was Judge
William Dickson, not Judge Hollister,
who was on the car. Judge Dickson,
like Judge HOLSTER, was too old to es-
cape from such a terrible shock and was
one of The first of the wounded to die.
He was a well known attorney, retired for
a number OF years. He was a warm per-
sonal friend of President Lincoln.
The list OF dead now stsnds-Judge
William Dickson. Mrs Caleb Ives. Miss
Lillian Oskamp, Michael Kneiss, Joseph
Hochstetter.
Wounded-Chas. McFadden, both legs
broken; Joseph McFadden, cut ON both
sides and on various portions of the body
and internal injuries: Mrs. Hochstetter,
cuts and intcrnaliniuries, and Mrs Joseph
McEaddep.
Charles Goebel, the man in charge of
the car, says he informed the ENGINEER
that The cut off for stopping the car was
not working properly and the engineer
said lie had fixed it, but evidently it was
out of order. Engineer Howard Worden
could not he found.
Judge Dickson is the first man who
suggested the name of Gen. Rosecrans to
President Lincoln for appointment and
Rosecrans was made a general as a result.
He was a lifelong friend of Dickson's.
Joseph McFadden died at 2:2O.