The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-15

Surf ToB DAMAGES AeArssr THE
STEAMER HAAnrETT.-Beiore United
States Commissioner McCandless, at
Pittsburgh, John Barton, IL, Esq., has
instituted 4 suit on behalf Of james
Campo and VIM. Smith, two young men,
not over twenty-five years Of age, against
the steam tug Ike Hammett, for wages
to the amount Of SIS each. The counsel
also brought suit for damages in the
name Of the young men mentioned,
against Samuel Parker, Captain, and Jas,
Potter, owner Of the said weasel, claiming
$1,000 in each case. The defendants be.
long to the Eastern district, Wheeling,
The PLAINTIFF affidavit Is quite lengthy
and also very interesting, We therefore
append synopsis OF the same:
They set out by reciting the fact that
on November '2lSt they shipped as decI;
danpon the Ike HRmmett, the boat
then being at the Pittsburgh wharf, the
Captain having engaged them to 20 tc
New Orleans, the trip TO occupy 80 days
for which service they we're 10 receive
$25 per month each. They conducted
Themselves properly, obey, d all the OIL
cera Of the boat, and they proceeded al
iaras Cairo, where the boat laid up, TIL,
tow in charge OF the HRmmett was here
transferred TO the Coal Hill, owned by
the same defendants, and the Captain dis
charged the PLAINTIFF. This was on De
cember 0lh-l4 days after leaving Pitts
burghs They were paid So 80. The,
Immediately procured passage to Cincin
natl, but the boat tied up ut Evansville
on account Of the ice. Being tota
strangers and without money the younl
men started to tramphome to Pittsburgh
Starting from Evansville, they waikeC
fiity.fve miles, sleeping in the snow three
nights. Arriving at Cincinnati, they
stopped night in the lookup, shipping
the next day to Portsmouth. By thil
time their money was exhausted. Thu
next daythey walked through snow anG
ice to lryiDgton, tllirty-one miles, suffer
ing the greatest hardships. A boat ride
was obtained 10 Huntington, twenty-five
miles further on, and after nights res
in the station house, they walked sixteer
miles to Millersport.
Their health and strength failed then
here and they could 20 no further. Thu
charitable people took good care Of them
and IN u few days they again set ont OF
their journey, walking to- GRllipoliS
twenly.six miles, subsisting on frozer
apples, which they pulled from tie trees
On this walk they had their feet frozen
and Hon. Judge Logan, whose attention
was called 10 their condition, Obtainet
shoes for them, In their new broganl
they trNmpel to Pomeroy, twenty miles
walking through snow and ice. Tn,
next day they got over % miles NOR,
ground, sleeping in railroad shanty
that night, and on the following day the!
arrived at Marietta, 81 miles nearc
home.
They were now completely Frustrated
and were, by the kindness and charity Q
the people, well taken care OF for fou
days. Their feet were swollen and in
frightiul condition. Six dollars were re
ceiyed from their parents in Pittsburgh
who are poor, and they eventually reach
ed thatcity. They we're confined to bed
Of sickness, the toe nails dropped from
their feet, and they have not been able t
work any since. They therefore seek t,
recover damages for the time lost, and TO
the injury which they have sustaine,
physically.