THEY RODE DEATH. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON AN INCLINED STREET RAILWAY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 420, 16 November 1889, Page 4

THEY RODE DEATH. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON AN INCLINED STREET RAILWAY.

The mosfc appalling accident ever known on the inclined plane railways of (Jincinnali happened between 12 and 1 o'clock on the 15th ulfc. on the Mount Auburn inclined plane. It lies at the head oh Alainfctrceb, and reached to a height of between 250 and 350 feet in the space of 2,000 feet. Two cars are employed, one on each track, drawn by two steel wiro cable?, wound upon a chum, at the top of the hill by an engine located there. Nine passengers had entered the car at the foot of the plane, and a number in the other car at the top. The passage of the ascending car was all right until it reached the top, when, to his horror, the engineer found that the machinery would not lespond, and he could not stop the engine. Only one result was possible. The car was ai rested by the strong bumper which slops its. progress, and as the engine continued, all its force was expended on the two cables, and they snapped like wrapping thicad. Then the car with its nine inmates locked within began the descent of that frightful slope. The crash at the foot of the plane was frightful. The iron gate that formed the lower end of the truck on which the car rested was thrown sixty feet down the street, the top of the car being hurled almost as far as the gutter. The truck itself and the floor and seats of the car foimed a shapeless wreck, mingled with the bleeding and mangled boJies of the passengers. As soon as it could be done the dead were taken to the morgue to await full identifica- | tion. | The wounded were carried to the nearest places where an examination could be made. Judge William Dickson was one of the first wounded to die. He was a well-known attorney, retired for a number of years. He was a warm personal friend of Piesident Lincoln. Judge Dickson is the first man who suggested the name of General Rosecrans to President Lincoln for an appointment, and Rosecrans was made a General as tho result. At 11.30 o'clock that night it is known that thero were eight persons in the wrecked car. Following is a list of the dead and wounded : — Dead : Judge Win. 13. Dickson, Michael Knips, Mrs Caleb Ives, Mrs Mary (I. Errctt, Joseph McFadden, senior. Wounded : Mrs A<jnes Hostetter, Miss Lilian Oskatnp, Joseph McFadden, junior. Besides the occupants of the car several persons stauding on Mulberrystreet were badly hurt. George Miller is believed to be fatally injuied. He is still unconscious. Joe Huette, aged 14, was badly cut about the legs by flying fragments. 'Jharles Gobel, the man in charge of the car, says he informed the engineer that the cut-oft for stopping the car was not working properly. The engineer said he had fixed it, but evidently it was still out of order. The engineer, Howard Worden, could not be found.