Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-16
BRAKES REFUSED TO
-. WORK ON INCLINE
Awful Scene of Terror When
Scores Were Crushed Beneath
h. Tlmbers. Irons and Heavy
TruCks--Bodies Badly
r. d Mangled.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 16.-One
man was Killed, six persons danger
ously, and probably rs others more
or less injured today when an Elder
son avenue car crowded with passen-
a 25-foot embaukment at Mount
Hope. in the western end of the city.
Attorney Henry H. Bausch was
taken from the wreckage badly in
jured and died before he could be
taken to hospital. 1t Is feared that
some of the injured may also die.
While coming down the hill, the
notorriar lost control of the car,
which jumped the track apparently,
striking a bad rail and going cleap.
across the street and over the es"
trucks crashing through b. *.
Many Oss,- neavy H
AS tne car tufE1 .oed
peenle W f,, Led over after its mad
heass- me embankment many
~ .ere crushed. and when fhs
,, 's 49,. trucks crashed throueb the
,,t ar onto the people, thew cn,,a .ne
hae, WORK or Injury which had heer
suH oy the derailment. The n,otorn
hna,. na trucks struck Attorney Rauscb.s
to iba squareiy uy and then dropped on
thew "a , rUmeI part of the car, where
| INTO the mud below. iooi ana
| az large number of people imra
utateiy rushed to the rescue fron, ne
sreet s and .several physicians WERE
ofthoned, of IN put owing to the position
an OF ats crowd OF victims wera lsins
al, ~. ssni used mass on the lover por-
sion and beneath the wrecxape az
.orh OF saving the lives of the VIC
t.tS was necessarily slow and II was
over an hour before the last could be
lo1 Badly AIangIed.
Bauseh's. body was badly mangled
and when he was taken from he car
he was in such a condition that he
did not survive until an ambulance
could arrive. His dead body was sent
to the morgue.
Others of the injured were man
gied IN AWFUL shape and 1t is possible
that there will be a half dozen
deaths among the list of those who
were in the car.
Pieces of glass and spllnters or
iron and wood We're driven into the
heads ana bodies of the passengers
when the car turned over and many
We're badly jammed beneath the
seats which fell into the car when
the trucks descended.
Covered with blood from innumer-
able wounds those slightly hurt re-
mained to assist those who were had
ly injured and not until the last of
the dangerously hurt had been taxi
EN- to the hospital was the last OF
the lesser injured removed from the
scene.
MOtorman Hurt.
The motormah is among the bad
ly injured and 1t Is not believed ne
can survive. He remained with the
brake until the car turned over and
ne was crushed against the ground,
being thrown through a window and
ahghtfng so that the car fell on him.
He stated this afternoon that the
brakes refused to work, despite his
efforts TO control the car by hand,
and he was unable to stop. He de-
clared that the car was proceeding
at an unsafe rate of speed when he
turned into. Elderson avenue and
that he eau account for the accident
in only one way. that the brakes
talled to work and the slight grade
carried the heavy car on until its
momentum threw ii from the track.
Both the motorman and conductor
VIII be held under surveillance pend
ing an investigation by the coroner.