Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-11-28
PLUNGED TO DEATH.
HORRIBLE STREET CAR ACCIDENT AT
CLEVELAND

The Accident Supposed To BE Due 60 .
BIunder of the Conference.-The Car
Goes Through an Open Draw and shoots
Down into the River.
CLEVELAND, o.. Nov ls-Tme has not
modified or lessened the horrible aspect of
the street railroad accident on the Central
viaduct, which occurred early Saturday
evening in which an electric car loaded
with passengers plunged from a bridge to
the river below, "a distance Of l0l feet
All the passengers except one were killed
Or drowned The conductor was among
the victims but the ,notorman escaped by
jumping. 1t will probably be several days
before positive knowledge as to the mum
Der OF killed is obtained The first out
side estimate Of twenty-one victims may
be reached, although it does not seem
probable it Will go SO high as that 1t is
positively known that sixteen persons lost
their lives At this time the impression
was that there were still two or three
bodies in the river That impression re-
suited from the fact that number OF
persons were reported to the police as be-
ing unaccountabiy absent from their
lomes.
List of the Dead.
The names of those who persisted are:
Mrs. Minnie c. Brown 10 Thurman
street. Miss Bessie Davis, schoolteacher in
Sackett school, Edward Hoffman. con-
ductor, III East End avenue; Garry W.
Foster clerk. 81 Mentor avenue. Mrs A..
M Hoffman old
Harvey Hoffman, aged and years old,
1908 Pearl street; Louis K Huletz, mail
carrie, IS BREWER street, Curt Lephene.
So Jennings avenue. Henry w Mecalen-
burg, Merchant tailor, IS Mary street.
Marie Iitchen, domestic Ball avenue.
Mrs. Martha Palmer. los Wentworth ave-
nue.; Augusta Sabinski. 217 Central ave-
nue. Mrs John A. Sauernheimer. IS Pro
fessor street. The Observation-Disclosures Cal
lahan, Hamilton street; Miss Martha
Saurenheimer, l54 Merchants avenue. b.
{. Page, residence unknown
Passed into space.
The car passed off the bridge into space
quite slowly and dropped downward with
almost lightning velocity The stone
pier does not come up to the floor of the
trioge by about twenty-five feet. That
space is filled with steel truss work, which
does not fill the entire top of the pier. When
the car reached this stage of its t,.ll the
rear portion struck the projecting ledge
of the pier and the comparatively fragile
framework was crushed as If it had been
an egg she'll The length Of the car must
have been almost perpendicular in the air
and to this fact is due the survival Of
Looley, the only man taken from the
wreck with any sign of life in him.
Judging from ali the evidence he has
been able to collect Coroner Arbuckle be-
lieves more responsibility rested on the
conductor. Edward Hoffman, who went to
his death with the passengers, than upon
the motorman, Augustus \ Rogers, who
is under arrest.
The Sixteenth Victim.
The lifesaving and fireboat crews re-
sumcd work in the endeavor to recover adj
ditional bodies of the victims of Saturday
nights terrible street car accident ut the
drawbridge of the Central viaduct
Shortly after 10 clock the body of wo-
man was brought to the surface of the
river and was later Identified as that of
Miss Martha Sauernheimer She was a
sister-in-law of Mrs. John a. Sauernheim-
er, whose body was recovered Saturday
night
1t is believed that there are at least one
or two bodies still in the river and the
dragging of the water will be continued.
Rogers, the motorman who jumped from
the car and thus saved his life, was bound
over without bail in the police court for
two week. during which time Il thorough
Investigation will be matte into the affair