New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-04
DASHED A MILE TO DEATH.
AN ELECTRIC CAR RUNS AWAY.
TWO CINCINNATI PLEASURE SEEKERS
KILLED AND SIX DYING.
NOT ONE OF The FORTY.FIvE PASSENGERS Es.
pAPED INJURY-A TELEGRAPH POLE SNAP.
PED OFF AND LIQUOR STORE AT THE
FOOT OF THE STEEP GRADE WRECK.

ED BY THE PLUNGING CAR.

PED OFF AND LIQUOR STORE AT THE
FOOT OF THE sTEEP GRADE WRECK.
ED BY THE PLUNGING CAR.
Cincinnati, Sept 3.-What will prove perhaps. the
most disastrous street car accident ever recorded
here occurred in this city at o'clock tonight.
An electric car dashed down hill at frightful
speed left the track broke telegraph pole and
shot into liquor shop. wrecking both itself and the
building. As result of the collision, two persons
dead six are injured beyond recovery, and
nearly forty more are hurt, many of them dan
| gerously.
| 1t was soon after the Eden Park Sunday after
noon concert had closed and the nightly open-ar
audience, usual. made rush for the cars down
town" Avondale electric No 6ii was soon
packed with passengers and the motorman, George
Devine. ran without incident until he reached the
grade mile long. which descends into the bust
ness part of the city. Suddenly the brake became
unmanageabIe, and the heavy car began to de-
scend with perilous speed. The conductor. Charles
II. Smith. to his comrades assistance. but
the brake was obstinate, and the two men turned
their attention to the frightened passengers. By
persuasion and force the half-hundrcd more
inmates were kept in their seaE. while the car.
now swaying to and fro. shot down the hill with
awful velocity. until. reaching the intersection
OF Hunt-st., and Broadway. it left the track and.
breaking in two a telegraph pole which stood in
its path. plunged into the liquor store of George
Schmidt No S5l broadway.
There forty-hvc persons in the car. and
OF the escaped injury. The motormdn
and conductor jumped just before the car struck
the pole. and thus escaped horrible death. The
smashed into spn:ers. was the front
OF the store. with the bar. and from the wreckage
at once arose agonzIng 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 corps were busily
engaged in giving such assistance in their
power.
The dead are: Maria Maloney. aged twelve
instantly killed. Mrs. Sarah Dublin. aged thirty
five. fractured skull. died at city Hospital ten min
utes after arrival there.
The six fatally injured Lizzie Johnson, aged
twenty-one, OF Ridgeway-aye.. skull fractured;
clara Beckley OF No. IS Cnton-st.. skull fractured
and confusion OF face; Mrs Mary Beckley, No. 5s
Clinton-st.. skull fractured and injury TO spine;
Edna Ford No. AS Ninth-st. both thighs fractured
saC,gacd body wounds and Internal injuries; Louisa
Best No. = Wade-st. fractured skull and internal
INJURIES; Allan Best, No. 30 Wade-st both legs
broken skull fractured at base OF brain and in
ternal injuries.
coroner Querner has already begun an inycsti-
cation but the cause OF the accident VIII not
he made known officially for several days. The
motorman asserts that the car had attained no
do its office OF the six persons given above a.
fatally injured il Is believed that not one can
survive for forty-eight hours.