New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-16
pLUNGING TO SURE DEATH
SIX PERSONS KILLED ON AN INCLINED
PLANE RAILWAY.
n OAR WITH NINE PASSENGERS DROPS 1000
FEET TO DESTRUcTIoN-THE MACHINERY
WAS OUT OF ORDER

WAS OUT OF ORDER
cincinnati Oct 15-The worst accident ever
known on the inclined plane railways of TINS ci.y
honnened todav between ~ and / o'clock on the
Mount Auburn inclined plane, at the ne"u VI
Main. and which reaches TO height OF between
o,o and 400 feet in n space Of perhaps %'oVo leeU
or loss Tho accident resulted in the death Oh
CIV rorsons and ,he serous injury OF two others
The list Of killed and injured is as ioiiows'
KILLED
DICKSON 3O age S's .S Ss T6uSGcd SS 100 Au
HoCHsTFTTER, JOSEPH member Of the firm OF Laist
{ Hochstetier.
IVES CALEB Of Riysrsde & Her a huSasa Wa.S,.s Is
She was on her way to visit her son. She was sixty
uSFIss, MICHAEL. of No. II Euciid-ave,. Mount Au-
burn seaeher; he was on his way home 20 oinneI'
McFApDEN. JOSEPH. age sixty. stonecut'er' Of No
110 Saunders sst. Mount Auburn
osKAMP, Miss LILLIAN.
INJURED.
HoCHsTETTER, Mrs. JOSEPH, Her husband was killed
beside her; her injuries are serious
MeFADDEN CHARLES, OF Joseph McFadden; his
foot was badly crushed
Two cars are employed one on each track They
are drawn by two steel wire cables that are wound
upon a drum at the top Of the hill by an engine
located there Nine passengers had entered the
ear at the foot of the plane and number were
on the other car at the top. The passage of the
ascending car was all right until it had reached
the top, when to his horror the engineer found
that the machinery would not respond and that
he could not stop the engine. Only result
was possible The arrested by the strong
bumper that stops its progress, and as the engine
continued all it's force was expended on the two
cables and they snapped like wrapping thread
under its enormous power. Then the with
rs nine inmates locked within began the descent
If the slope. The crash at the
foot of the plane terrific. cloud of dust
arose that hid the wreck from view for moment.
but when it was dispelled the scene was pitiful.
The iron gate that formed the lower end OF the
truck on which the car rested was thrown sixty
feet down the street The top of the car was lying
almost as far in the gutter. The truck itself and
the floor and seats of the car formed shapeless
wreck, mingled with the bleeding and mangled
bodies of the nine passengers.
Two were taken out dead, one mlddle-aged
woman with gray hair. was recognized as Mrs.
Ives; the other, young girl OF twenty, MISS
Lillian Oskamp, daughter of Henry Oskamp.
Another n KnesS, teacher, living at No. IA Euclid
ave. died soon afterward. Five others were in
iured. some fatally, and one man escaped miracu-
ouslv with slight injury. One Of the injured was
Judpe w NJ Dickson. lie was too old to survive
the shock and died in a few minutes. lie was a
wel-lnown attorney, retired for number oil years
lie was a warm personal friend of President Lin
coin.
As soon as it could be done the dead were taken
u the morgue TO await full Identification, while
The wounded were carried to the nearest places
where examinations could be made ,
This inclined plane is the Oldest IN the CITY,
IT, was built twentyone years ago. ms Is uiie
6rst accident attended with loss of life at any OF
tbe four inclined planes that are in almost con
slant use There have been two similar cases IN
the history Of the inclined planes, but IN ooth le
others the engine was got under control before
the cables weIe broken ,.. , .- ox
Perhaps the most trying condition OF any, N
rent the nine on the descending car, was lhat Oh
the passengers on the other car at the loot OF
the plane They were locked in, as IS always
the case and were compelled to await the coming
NJ the other car and It's inevitable crash beside
them at the foot of the track.
Charles Goebel. who the man at the lever
who found himself unable to stop the engine, says
that he complained that the "cut.on" was not
working properly told the engineer about 1t
This morning" he said land the engineer told
me he had lepai.cd t. But it was evd ntly still
out of order and this must have been the cause
of the accident
The engineer Howard Worden, could not be
found though this is not TO be considered as evil
dence that he is hiding