Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-04
FATAL STREET CAR ACCIDENT,
Two Persons Killed and SIX FATAL
Injured.

1 AhyuEcus
What will prove perhaps the most dis
astrous street car accident ever recorded
took place in Cincinnati last evening at
o'clock. An electric car dashed down
hill at frightful speed. left the track. brok,
| a telegraph pole. and shot into a saloon
| wrecking both itself and the structure Al
a result Of the collision two people are dead
six are injured beyond recovery and nearl,
forty more are hurt, many Of them serious
ly.
The killed are:
Marie Maloney. aged twelve.
Mrs. Sarah Dublin, aged thirty-five. frac
tured skull. died at City Hospital
The six fatally wounded are:
Lizzie Johnson. q Ridgeway avenue
skull fractured.
Clara Beckley. 56 Clinton street, skull
fractured and confusion of face. pronounced
fatal.
Mrs. Mary Beckley. IS Clinton street
skull fractured and injury to spine.
Edna Ford: 44s 9th street. both thighs
fractured and internal injuries.
Louisa Best, $50 Wade street, fractured
skull and internal injuries.
Allan Best. $50 Wade street. both legs
broken. skull fractured at base Of brain
and internal injuries.
The seriously injured are:
Carrie Gertz. 43 Wilstach street, right
leg and left arm broken.
Louisa Ehrha-dt. 43 Wilstach street, left
thigh broken and right leg lacerated.
Harald Burman, ia Dudley street, frac-
lures and other wounds.
Albert Burman, Ia Dudley street, frac-
tured leg.
Carrie Reed, 324 Delaney street, right arm
and shoulder lacerated.
Fannie Reed, 324 Delaney street, bruised
about body.
Mrs. Walter Richards. Linden avenue
North Fairmont. both legs broken, skull
fractured and internal injuries.
Leslie Tull. Shillito avenue. Commissions OF
face and neck.
Mary Mahoney. Jennie Cooksey. Mrs
Adolph Schwill, James McDevitt, Lille I'm
bach. Mrs. John Mahoney. Mrs. Clara Pau
and her five children of ga Central avenue
James Levin. Charles H. Smith. and George
Devine all received serious but not neces
sarily fatal injuries.
The Disaster.
1t was soon after the Eden Park Sunday
afternoon concert had closed and the open
air audience as usual made rush for the
cars down town. Avondale electric car No
GA was packed with people and Motormar
George Nevine ran without accident until
he reached the grade a mile long that de-
sends into the business portion Of the city
Suddenly the brake became unmanageable
and the heavy car began to descend with
perilous speed.
Conductor Charles H. Smith ran to his
comrades assistance, Dut the brake Was
obstinate and the two men turned their at
tention to the frightened passengers. By
persuasion and force the half hundred OF
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 intersection OF Hunt and
Broadway 1t left the track and smashing
a telegraph pole which stood in its path
into pieces plunged into the saloon OF
George Schmidt at 351 Broadway.
There were forty-hve people in the car
and not one of them escaped injury. The
motorman and conductor jumped just before
the car struck the pole and thus escaped
death. The car was smashed into splinters
as was the front of the saloon and the bar,
and from the debris arose agoniZing cries
and means that told those within hearing
that a terrible accident had occurred.
Six patrol wagons were upon the scene
within a few minutes, the dead and dying
were quickly transferred to the City Hos
initial. and the entire medical staff was soon
busily engaged in rendering such assist
ance as lay in their power
Coroner Querner has already begun an
inyesttga tion but the cause of the accident
will not be made known officially for sew
eral DAYS The motorman claims that the
ca had attained no unusual momentum
when the brake refused to do its office.
of the six given above as fatally injured
II is believed that none can survive forty
eight hours.