Show FATAL TRAIN WRECK most appalling accident of its knowd oct 15 ten persons 1 are reported killed by the breaking loose of a car on the anburn incline plane the rope broke just as the car reached the top and it went cra shiner down and ran into a passenger station and into the office below three are killed and five probably fatally injured the most appalling accident ever known on the inclined plane railways in this city today to day between 12 and 1 on the mount auburn inclined plane it lies at the head of main street and reached to a hight between and feet in tho space of 2000 feet two cars are employed one on each track drawn by two steel wire cables wound upon a drum 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 of others in the car at the top the passage of the ascending car was all right until it reached the top when to his sorrow the engineer found tho machine would not respond and he could not stop the engine only ono result was possible the cpr was arrested by a strong bumper which stops its progress and as the engine continued all its force was expended on the two cables and snapped them like wrapping thread then the car with its nine inmates locked within began its descent of the slope the crash at the foot of the plane was frightful the iron gate that formed the lower end of the track ou which the car rested was thrown sixty feet down the street the top of the car was almost as far in the gutter the truck itself and and seats of the car formed a shapeless wreck and mingled with the bleeding and mangled bodies of the passengers two were taken out dead a middle aged lady mrs ives and a girl lillian aukamp another N keiss teacher died soon afterwards five others were injured perhaps fatally one man escaped miraculously with but slight injuries the names of the injured are not tally ascertained hon J B bolha ter and mcfadden are said to be two of them and judge hollister who is nearly 72 years and can hardly vive such a shock As soon as could bo done tie bodies were taken to the morgue to await full identification the wounded were carried to the nearest place where an examination could be made it was jude william dickson not judge hollister who was on the oar jo IKO dickson like judge homister HoU ister is too old to escape from a ter eibl i shock in i w s me of the firt ef the wounded tu die he is a wel known attorney retired for a number of years and was a warm personal friend of president lincoln judge dickson was the first man who suggested the nama of general rosecrans Eose crans to president lincoln for appointment and rosecrans was made a general ES the result he was a life long friend of dickson |