Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-31
WANTS BIG DAMAGES
Edward Eslinger Asks $4,000
From Burlington Route.
CRAzED BY INJURIES RECEIVED

PIeasant-More Saloon Injunctions
Asked for. T. Mccune Wants
$4,000 Damages-other Gases Filed.
lFrom Fridays Daily.l
A total of $4,000 damages is asked
from the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad company in two petit
tons filed in the county clerks office
late yesterday evening. One was
by Edward Eslinger, who asks $4,000
for injuries received in May 1899, while
in the employ of the Burlington, and
which is alleged made him insane for
life. John T. McCune, travelling man
OF this city, also asks $4,000 damages
Tor injuries alleged to have been re-
ceived in the big Thayer wreck last
May Another batch of injunction
cases We're also filed yesterday, pa
pers having now been filed asking for
injunctions against every retail and
wholesale liquor dealer in the city.
The prosecutions are ascribed to the
Anti-Saloon League of Iowa. Julia FL
lison wants $4,000 damages from the
| Ottumwa Traction & Light Co. for in
Jurles alleged to have been received
by car jumping the track in this city
last October Eva e. Morgan wants
divorce from Harry S. Morgan. A
large number of minor cases were fl
ed. The officials in the clerks Office
have been very busy the last two days
as they have the largest docket to COM
pile that has been filed for many years,
and all of their time is occupied in
getting the matter ready for the print
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Wants $4,000 Damages.
Thirty thousand dollars is the
amount of damages asked from the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road company by Howard 7. Wilcox
en-, guardian of Edward Eslinger, in
sane, in a petition which alleges that
Eslinger lost his mind by reason of
injuries received while working for
the Burlington road at Tower 80
about two years ago. The case is a
very sad one and is we'll remembered
in this city, where Eslinger made his
home
According to the petition which has
been filed in the county clerks office,
Eslinger was employed by the Burling-
ton road May %, 1899. working on a
bridge over Little Cedar Creek, near
Tower 80. 1t is alleged that Fore
man Ed. Lawler ordered him to re-
move some props from a block and
tackle and that while so engaged the
block and tackle broke, precipitating
an engine upon Eslinger striking him
in the back and so badly injuring him
J. that for long time he was uncon-
scious; that when he came to, he was
insane and has remained in that con-
dition ever since, and that it will be
permanent. The petition alleges that
| Eslinger is now in the insane asylum
at Mt. Pleasant where he VIII have to
be kept for treatment. The petition
alleges that he has been damaged in
the sum of $4,000 and judgment is
asked for mat amount. c.. W. Whit
more and McElroy & McElroy are the
attorneys for the plaintiff.
Catches All Saloons.
! In yesterdays issue it was stated
that petitions had been filed asking
injunctions against all the remaining
saloons in the city, and wholesale
dealers. Included in this list is one
man. M. c. Cunningham, who is not
in business. The latter petitions are
all gotten up in the same form as
those reported yesterday and are all
alike. The same plaintiffs, Charles
Kirkland, John S. Wolf and NJ. Hard
socg appear on all the petitions Fol-
lowing are those against whom the
injunctions have been asked and who
were not included in yesterdays re-
port: j. e. Meecham, William Wat
son, John Wagner, Fender & Webster,
NJ. c. Cunningham, Mat Mier. W. B.
Murray, John Hahn, Gus Westlund,
Chris. Kaiser, Lewis Merten, S. R.
Cheadle, r. 7. Holmes, II. A. Gangs,
w. V. Silvers & Co., Thomas Gala
CHER, NJ. Schwartz, M. Cosgrove. Con
Doran and John Lunkley. An injunc-
ton was also asked against George
Cline, but he was not found yester-
day and the papers in his case will
not go on record at this term of court
Wants Divorce.
Eva E. Morgan, through her attor-
neys, Work & Work, has filed a petit
ton asking for a divorce from Harry
! S. Morgan. whom she charges with
adultery and cruel and inhuman treat
ment The petition alleges that the
couple were married in Oskaloosa,
September 20, 1897, and that they
have one child, Viola Elizabeth Nor
. San. VI WliOli lllC llOlleE asks ClG
custody and $50 per month alimony.
McCune Wants Damages.
An echo of the Thayer wreck of
last May was heard in the county
clerks Office yesterday when John T.
McCune, through his attorneys, Stecl1
& Smith, filed petition asking for
$4,000 damages from the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad com
pany. Mr.. McCune alleges that he
was a, passenger on No. 3, May 6,
1901, and that the train was wrecked
near Thayer. He alleges that he was
thrown over a high embankment re-
ceiving injuries to his head, back, ribs.
legs. arms and inwardly, many of
which are permanent. He alleges that
the train was running at the rate of
about sixty to seventy miles per hour
when the accident occurred.