The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-16
HORRIBLE ACCIDENT
On the Mt. Auburn Cable Incline
At Cincinnati.
THE CHICKASAW LEGISLATURE.
The Squaw Men May Cause TrOuble-Burned
In Stag POt-Tanner on Mander-
sons Re-rating.

ClNCINNATI, Oct. 15.-The most appalling
accident ever known on incline plane rail
ways in this city happened to-day, about Il
or l O'Clock, on the Mount Auburn in
clined plane 1t lies at the head of Main
street, and reaches to height of between
two hundred and fifty and three hundred
feet in space of 1000 feet. Two cars
were employed, one on each track, drawn
by two steel wire cables wound upon a
drum at the top of the hill by an engine 10
Gated there. Nine passengers had entered
the car at the foot of the plane and num-
Der of others in the car at the top. The
passage of the ascending car was all right
until it reached the top, when to his sorrow
the engineer found the machine would not
respond and he could not stop the engine.
Only one result was possible. The car
was arrested by the strong bumper which
stops its progress, and as the engine con
tinued all it's force was expended
on the two cables and they snapped like
wrapping thread. Then the car with its
nine inmates locked within began its des-
cent of the slope The crash at the foot OF
the plane was frightful. The iron gate
that formed the lower end of the track on
which the car rested was thrown sixty feet
UOWn inc SLEttl. Lie lup VI INC CSil w do
almost as far in the gutter. The track
itself and tine floor and seats of the car
formed shapeless wreck, mingled with
the bleeding, mangled bodies OF passengers.
Two were taken out dead a middleaged
lady, Mrs. Ives, and young girl, Lillian
Askamp. Another, n. keiss, a teacher,
died soon afterward Five others were in
iured, perhaps fatally. One man escaped
miracllously, and was but slightly injured.
The James of the injured are not fully as
: certained. Hon. j. b. HOLSTER and Nc
Fadden are said TO be two of them, and
Judge HOLSTER, who is nearly seventy-two
years old, can hardly survive such a shock.
AS soon as could be done the bodies were
taken to the morgue to wait full identitica-
ton. The wounded were carried to the
nearest place where an examination could
be made.
1t was Judge William Dickson not Judge
II blister, who was on the car. Judge
Dickson, like Judge HOLSTER is too old to
escape from such a terrible shock
and was one of the first of the wounded to
die He is well known attorney, retired
for number of years and was a warm
friend of President Lincoln. Judge Dick
son was the first one who suggested the
name of General Rosecrans to President
Lincoln for appointment and Rosecrans was
made general as the result. He was a
life long friend of Dickson.
\ list OF dead now stands: Judge VIII
liam Dickson, Mrs. Caleb Ives, Miss Lii
liza Askamp, Michael Keiso, Joseph Hoch-
stetter Wounded: Charles McFadden
both legs broken; Joseph McF'adden, cut
on the side and various portions of the
body and internal injuries; Mrs. Hoch-
stetter, cuts and internal injuries; Mrs
Joseph NJ :E'adden.
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. The engineer said he
had fixed it, but evidently it was still out
of order. Engineer Howard Warden
could not be found.
Joseph McFadden died at 2:20 p. m.
At 1880 tonight il is known that there wert
e ght persons in the wrecked car. The following
is correct list of TIE dead and wounded: DeaC
Judge William b. Dickson, Michael Ness, Mrs
Caleb ives. Mrs. Mary Errett, Joseph McFad
den. sr. Wounded-MrS. Agnes HOstetter, Mis-!
Lillian Oskamp, Joseph McFadden. Beside!
( the occupants of the car, several persons stand
fng on Mulberry street were badly hurt. George
Miller, believed 10 be fatally injured is still I'm
conscious. Joe Auette, aged fourteen, is badly
cut about the legs by flying fragments.