St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-04

Six Others Receive Injuries From
Which They Cannot Recover
Over a Score of Others Hurt
The Brakes OF Two Cars Give
Way simultaneously
of shrieks.
CINCINNATI, o., Sept. 3.-Tonight at
o'clock, on the electric railway from
Avondale to Cincinnati, all the brakes
or an incoming train of two cars gave
way simultaneously. This was at Me-
Gregor avenue on Hunt street, which
was formerly called the Reading ana
Avondale. For mile and quarter
from this point the road is down grade.
1t makes long curve before intersect-
ing with Broadway. which street it
enters at right angles. The grade for
400 yards before entering Broadway is
i've or six feet to the hundred. The
m6torman, when the brakes failed, tried
to reverse the wheels, but the wires
of the controller burnt off, and the
mOtorman, conductor aud forty-hve
passengers were at the mercy of that
wild train.
FASTER AND FASTER
1t sped. A chorus of shrieks made the
air dismal. Now and then passenger
dropped out on the stony street. AT
the Lalf-mile from the starting point
the speed was thirty miles an hour.
Swifter and swifter sped the two fated
cars; louder and more despairing grew
the screams. Around the great bend
the train shot at fifty miles an hour.
with speed accelerating every second.
Into Broadway it dashed at seventy
miles an hour. Tearing across the
street, IT struck big cedar telegraph
pole, out Of the lower part of which it
cut log where the platform and the
top of the car struck the pole. This
piece of pole was dropped onto the
ground while the upper part of the pole
was suspended by the wires in the air.
After cutting through the pole, the
great iron frame of the car went OH and
struck huge iron door post in the
building at the corner, split upon it and
thrust half the length of the car into
the building. Over this mass of pull
verized ruin the rear car leaped to de-
Struction. All around in this
HEAP OF CONFUSION
were scattered the dead and diving
| freight. So far as can be learned, not a
soul escaped. One is already known to
be dead; eighteen are in the hospital,
and searchers are @out along that fatal
| mile and quarter, trying to learn the
fate of those strewn along the road
When the motorman reversed his
wheels, or tried to reverse them, and
found that the controlling apparatus had
burned out, he Informed the conductor
of the fact. Both Smith and Deyine,
| motorman and conductor, then became
panic-stricken and jumped for their
lives. Both suffered sprained wrists
and slight bruises. Summary:
Killed, l; fatally injured, 6; danger
ousl y injured, II; slightly injured. II;
not heard from, 16. Of the sixteen not
heard from it is supposed the injuries
are slight from jumping off. Eighteen
people were taken from the wreck to
the hospitals. Miss Clara Paul, with
five children, stuck on to the last, and,
for wonder, got out of the wreck with
small injury. The car, with its great
iron frame and its load, weighed several
tons. Mamie Nairen. aged thirteen, was
the only person killed outright. The
fatally injured are: Louisa Earhart,
aged siXty-three, leg and arm fractured ::
Louisa Berkley, skull fractured, spine
injured; Mary Mahony. aged forty,
skull fractured; Sarah Dublin, skull
fractured; Mrs. Walter Richards, Fair
mount. internally; Miss Lula Bast,
| skull fractured.