Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-07-05
ONE MkN.s QUEER EXPERIENCE.

Peculiar Sequel to MIR. Worxhiu-ton,s
II rts o obtain ome Turkeys.
A suit brought Ii the Superior Court
at Raleigh, N. c., against the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad has developed the
most novel accident known to the an.
nals Of Jurisprudence. There is but one
other case like it. 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
Dir. William Warrington was ON his
way to wild-turkey blind which he
had baited. and had his double-barrel-
ed, breech-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, Mr.. Warrington
heard the train In the distance, and
stopped on the side of the track about
fifty feet away, to view the train as it
passed by. He could not see over the
embankment to the other side of the
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on both sides of the track are the usual
bitches, which were filed with water.
MIR. Warrington 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 nip
ping grass, which Mr. Warrington
could not see. Just a few seconds be-
fore the train swept by these cattle
commenced to struggle across the track
to the side on which Mr.. Warrington
was standing. The bovines all got safe
ly across except one Jersey bull He
was caught Oh the cowcatc her and
hurled away with terrible velocity,
and, as misfortune and luck would
have 1t. he struck Mr. Warrington
about midships and knocked him down
into the ditch and planted himself on
top of him. The bull was stunned.
He struggled, but could not get up,
and the water was drowning both man
and beast Mr.. Honeycutt, the en-
gineer, Who was watching the cattle,
had not seen Mr.. Warrington, and
when the fireman told him what had
happened he stopped the train and hur-
ried back, and got there in time to get
Mr.. Warrington and the bull out of the
ditch before they were drowned. Strik-
ing Mr.. Warrington and knocking him
into the water saved the life of the bull,
and the water saved the bow by the
bull from killing Warrington.
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when the bull struck Mr.. Warrington
the shock knocked the gun some dis
lance, and when it struck the ground
1t 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 company
was not liable in damage to Mr. Wat
Kngt0n. Since the trial the owner of
the two cows has sued Mr.. Warrington
and recovered $500 in full of damages
for the killing.
But since all this happened Mr.. Wat
lington has had 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 getting old, and, being rich
and tired of business, he retired and
gave the whole plant and business,
worth $4,000, to Mr.. Warrington, who
was of no kin to him, but simply a
faithful employee. So Mr.. Warrington
had some recompense for his experience
XiSh The bull and the train