The age-herald., 1901-05-26
A MIxED-UP AFFAIR.
Remarkable Experience While Hunt
 ing for Turkeys.

From the Charlotte Observer.
 A suit brought in the Superior Court here against the Seaboard Air Line Rail- road has developed the most novel acci- dent known to the annals of jurispru- dence. There Is but one other case like 1t and that is to be found in the Alabama reports.
 The vestibuled train from Atlanta was bowling along toward Raleigh on a down grade at the rate of fifty miles per hour at 10 o'clock in the morning. William Wat
 lington was on his way to a wild turkey blind which he had baited and had his double-barreled, breach-loading 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. MT. Washington heard the train in the dis tance, and stopped on his side of the track about fifty feet away, to view the train as 1t passed. He could not see over
 the embanlSment to the other side of the track. Along beside the embankment on both sides of the track are the usual ditches, which were filled with water MT. Wellington was standing on the north side of the track with his gun on his shoulder. On the other side of the track were number of cattle nippng
 grass, which Mir. Wellington could not
 see. Just few second before the train
 swept by these cattle commenced to
 struggle across the track to the side on
 which MT. Washington was standing. The
 bovines all got safely across except one
 Jersey bull. He was caught in the cow
 catcher and hurled away with terrible
 velocity, and, as misfortune and luck
 would have it. he struck MT. Waiting
 ton about midships and knocked him
 down into the ditch and planted himself
 on top of him. The bull was stunned.
 Washington struggled but could not get
 up and the water was drowning both man
 and beast Mir. Honeycutt, the engineer,
 who was watching the cattle, had not
 seen MT. Wellington, and when the fire
 man told him what had happened he
 stopped the train and hurried back and
 got there in time to get MT. Washington
 and the bull out of the ditch before they
 were drowned. Striking MT. Washington
 and knocking him into the water saved
 the life of the bull and the water saved
 the blow by the bull from killing MT.
 Washington.
 Further examination showed that when
 the bull struck MT. Wellington the shock
 knocked the gun some distance, and when 1t struck the ground it was discharged and killed one of the cows and wounded another so badly that it had to be killed. The gun was not injured. On these facts Judge Brown held that the railroad com pany was not liable in damage to MT Washington. Since the trial the owner or the two cows has sued MT. Wellington and recovered $100 in full of damage for their killing.
 Mir Washington was knocked down by a Jersey bull which was hurled at him by the train, and nearly drowned, and his gun was discharged and killed two cows, and he gets no damages and is compelled to pay $1OO for the luxury of being principal In the most celebrated 1i1t4 ,Nf fn imals and man by railroad trains. But since all this happened MT. Washington has had a great piece of good luck befall
 him. He has been working for H. N. Snow, at High Point, in the furniture
 business, for many years Snow is get ting old, and being rich and tired of bus mess he retired and gave the whole plant and business, worth $20000 to MT. Wat lington, who was of no kin to him, but simply a faithful employe. So MT. Wat lington had some recompense for his ex- perience with the bull and the train.