The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-05
A FATAL RIDE.
The Brakes Refuse to Work on an Electri"
Car. HeaxiIy Loaded with People

The Brakes Refuse to Work on an Electric
Car, Heavily Loaded with People.
Cincinnati, September 3.-What Will
prove, perhaps, the most disastrous street
car accident ever recorded took place ID
this city this evening at O'Clock.
An electric car dashed down Dill ~
frightful speed, left the track, broke u Ter
egraph pole and shot into saioon' WfecA-
ing both 1t and the structure 1T struck.
AS result of the collision two peopie
are dead, six injured beyond recovery ana
nearly forty more are hurt, many danger
ously.
Ii was soon after the Eden park SUNDAY
afternoon concert had closed and the
nightly open air audience, as usual, nade
q rush for the ears down town. Avon
dale electric car No 644 was soon packed
with people, and Motorman George Divine
ran without incident until he reached inc
grade a mile long that descends into me
business part of the city Suddenly th'
brake became unmanageable and the heavy
car began to descend with perllous speed.
Conductor Charles FL. Smith ran to MS
comrades assistance, but the brake was oD-
stinate and the two men turned their at
tention to the frightened passengers.
BY persuasion and force the hat hundred
| or more inmates were kept in their seats,
| while the car, now swaylng to ana ITO,
| shot down the hill with awful velocity un.
| til reaching the intersection OF HUNT ana
! Broadway, it left the track and smashing
| a telegraph pole which stood III It's pain
into two pieces, plunged into the saloon OF
George Schmidt. ut Sol broadway
There were forty-ve people in the car
/ and not one of them escaped injury. Ihe
motorman and conductor jumped just be-
| fore the car struck the pole and thus es-
capped Il horrible death. The car was
| smashed into splintcrs. as was the front or
the saloon and the bar, and from the de-
bris at once arose agonzlng crles ana
| means that at once tod those within hear
ing that terrible accident had occurred.
Six patrol wagons were upon the scene
within a few minutes and the dead and
dying quickly transferred TO the city hos
ptal The entire medical force were soon
busIy engaged in rendering such assist
ance as was in their power.
The killed are:
MARC MALONEY, aged twelve, in
Mrs. SARAH DUBLIN, aged thirty
five, fractured skull, died at city hospital
ten minutes after arrival there.
The six fatally wounded are:
LIZZIE JOHNSON, u lddgeway ave
nue.. city, skull fractured, will die.
CLARA BECkLEY, - Clinton street,
sbu.i fractured and confusion Of face; pro-
nounccd fatal
MRS MARY BECKLtY. So Clinton
street, skull fractured and injuries to spine;
will die.
EDNA HoRD. AS Ninth street. both
AMI internal injuries: probably fatal.
LOUISA BEST. 250 Ware street, frac-
turct and internal injuries; will die.
ALLEN BEST. 90 Wade street, hott
legs broken, skull fractured at base of The
br4e md 5tdrman claims tTa{ ~ N sa had
attained no unusual momentum when the
brake refused TO do its office OF fhn siv
gwen above as fatally injured it is be-
hPEcd 'hat not one can survive for forty
eight hours. while others of the injured
may develop more dangerous wounds than
appear at the first hasty examination.
\ Terrible Wreck the Burlinrton
Strcator, H., September 3-On Saturday
hl@ht Il terrible wreck occurred in the OUT
sklfts or thlS CITY, resulting in the death
OIL TWO unknown men and serious jniures
to dozen others. At half past . o'clock
the regular freight and accommodation
tram, which left this city, over the Illinois
valley and Northern branch OF the Bur-
and the cars Of heavy freight. ia
Ec3her with the car containing tIe nassau
gers, were pied up at the bottom of a
twenty-five foot ravne The wreck took
fire from stove The uninjur traIpm,n
succeeded Ill putting out the flames but
not until several passengers had been Sc
yerely burned.
\ relief train was sent at once from tbis
city and everything was done for the vic
Tins. The two men who were killed vera
pinned beneath the wreck and their bodies
were not recovered until daylight
The injured were ali brought to this CITY
and placed in the hospital.