The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-09-06
DASHED TO DEATH.
Frightful Accident on a Cincinnati
Street Oar Line.
The Brakes Refused to Work and Two
Loaded Cars Get Beyond Control and
Dash Down q Grade-One Killed
and Six Fatally Injured.

CINCINNATI, o., Sept. 4.-What will
prove perhaps the most disastrous
street car accident ever recorded took
place in this city last evening at Z
o'clock. An electric car dashed down
a hill at frightful speed, left the track,
broke a telegraph pole, and shot into
saloon, wrecking both itself and the
structure it struck. AS result Of the
collision two people are dead, six are
injured beyond recovery, and nearly
forty more are hurt, many Of them
dangerously. N| t
1t was soon after the Eden park Sum
day afternoon concert had closed and
the nightly open air audience as usual
made rush for the cars down town"
Avondale electric electric car " b 844
was soon packed with people and
Motorman George Devine ran without
incident until he reached the grade
mile long that descends into the busi-
ness portion of the city.
Suddenly the brake became unman-
ageable and the heavy car began 10 de-
scend with perilous speed. Conductor
Charles Fl. Smith ran TO his comrades
assistance but the brake was obstinate
and the two men turned their atten-
tion to the frightened passengers. BY
persuasion and force the half hundred
or more inmates were kept in their
seats, while the car, now swaying to
and fro, shot down the hill with awful
velocity until, reaching the intersec-
tion of Hunt and Broadway, 1t left the
track and smashing telegraph pole
which stood in its path into two pieces,
plunged into the saloon Of George
Schmidt, at No. S51 Broadway.
There were forty-fve people In the
car and not one Of them escaped In
jury. The motorman and conductor
jumped just before the car struck the
pole and thus escaped a horrible
death. The car was smashed into
splinters, as was the front of the saloon
and the bar, and from the debris at
once arose agonizing cries and means
that told those within hearing that
terrible accident had occurred. Six
patrol wagons were upon the scene
within few minutes and the dead and
dying were quickly transferred to the
city hospital, where the entire medical
staff was soon busily engaged in rend-
ering such assistance as was In their
power. The killed are:
Marie Maloney, aged 12, instantly
killed.
Mrs. Sarah Dublin, aged 35, fractured
skull, died at the city hospital ten min
utes after arriving there.
Fatally wounded: Lizzie johnson,
Clara Beckley, Mrs. Mary Beckley,
Edna Ford, Louisa Best, Albert Best.
The seriously injured: Carrie Gertz,
Louisa Ehrhardt, Harold Burman, AL.
bert Burman, Carrie Reed, Fannie
Reed, Mrs. Walter Richards, Leslie
Tull, Mary Mahoney, Jennie Cooksey,
Mrs. Adolph schwill, James McDevitt,
Lille lmbach, Mrs. John Mahoney,
Mrs. Clara Paul and her five children;
James Levin, Charles Smith and George
Devine.
Coroner Querner has already begun
an investigation Of the accident. The
motorman claims that the car had at
tanned no unusual momentum when
the bTake refused TO DO its Office. Of
the six given above as fatally injured,
it is believed that not one can survive
for forty-eight hours, while others OF
the injured may develop more danger
GUS wounds than appear at first hasty
examinations.