Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1901-06-01
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
Uost Remarkable Lawsuit In Re
cent Court History.
suRerer In Railway Acct
aent IL Made q Pay Damages
Resulting from strange Con-
hxnaffon Of Circumstances

A suit IN the superior our in Ra-
leigh. y. C., against the Seaboard Air
Line railway has brought to light the
most novel accident known TO the
annals of Jurisprudence, says the
Philadelphia Press
The vestibule passenger train from
Atlanta was bowling along toward
Raleigh on a down grade at the rate
of 50 miles per hour at ten O'Clock in
the morning. William Warrington
was on his way to a wild turkey blind.
which he had baited. and had his
| double-harrelled. breech-loading shot
gun on his shoulder. two cartridges
being in the chambers.
! On reaching the railroad track,
which was on an embankment about
ten feet high at this place. Mr.. Wat
lington heard the train in the dis
tance and stopped on the side of the
track about so feet away. to view the
train as IL swept by.
He could not see over the embank-
ment to the other side of the track.
Along beside the embankment on
DOAn ci0C1 VI AIT AdN AACIt oAt
the usual bitches, which were filed
with water. Mr.. Warrington was
standing between the embankment
and one of these bitches on the north
side of the track with his gun on his
right shoulder. On the other side of
the track were a number of cattle
nipping grass. which Mr.. Warrington
could not see.
Just a few seconds before the train
passed these cattle commenced to
struggle across the track to the side
on which Mr.. Warrington was stand
ing. The bovines all got safely across
except one small Jersey bull.
He was caught on the c~owcatcher
and hurled away with terrible veloc-
ity, and as misfortune and luck both
would have it he struck Mr.. Waiting
ton about midships and knocked him
down into the ditch and planted the
bull on top of him
The bull was stunned and strug-
gled. but could not get up, and the
water wal drowning both man and
beast. The engineer, Mr.. Honeycutt,
was watching the cattle and had not
seen Mr.. Warrington, and when the
fireman told him what had happened
he stopped the train and hurried back
and got there in time to get Mr.. Vat
hngton and the bovine out of the
ditch before they were drowned.
Striking Mr.. Warrington and knock
ing him into the water saved the life
of the bull and the water saved the
blow by the bull from killing Wat
hngton.
Further examination showed that
the bull struck Mr.. Warrington and
the shock had Knocked the gun some
distance, and when it struck the
ground it wal discharged and killed
one of the COWS and wounded another
20 badly that it had to be killed. The
gun was not injured.
On these facts Judge Brown held
that the railroad company was not
liable in damages to Mr.. Warrington.
Since the trial the owner of the two
COWS has sued Mr.. Warrington and re-
covered 500 in full damages for their
killing.
Mr.. Warrington says the ending of
this lawsuit beats a blue sheep. That
he was knocked down by a Jersey
bull, which was hurled at him by the
train, and nearly drowned, and his
gun is discharged and kills two cows,
and he gets no damage and is com
PEELED to pay 800 for being the
principal in the most celebrated case
in the history of accidents by rail-
road trains.