The Saint Paul globe., 1903-09-22
FIVE SUITS FILED
IN A SINGLE DAY
Street Railway Company Is
Called On to Pay S31,5OO
for Personal Injuries.


Five personal injury damage suits,
aggregatfng claims to the amount Of
S3l, 800, were filed against the street
railway company in the district court
yesterday. The amounts asked by the
persons, who allege, they have been
injured as a result of negligence of the
company. ranging from $500 to $10,-
600.
One of the most important suits is
that of Mrs. Ella Foster, the wife of
DR.. Foster, who sues for $4,000 for in
jurieS alleged to have been sustained
while a passenger on, a Lafayette car,
on May 8, of this year. Mrs. Foster
says the car was in charge of an un-
skilled motOrman. She was riding
around the loop, when she was first
injured. AT Fifth and Cedar streets.
she AYERS. the car while going at a
high rate of speed, was suddenly
stopped and she was thrown up against
a seat with much force. This was her
experience again at Fifth and Broad
way and was repeated at Westminis-
ter and Lafayette, and at Burr and
Collins.
Mrs. Foster complains that she was
injured to such an extent that she was
confined to her bed and that her in
juries promise to be permanent.
Dr. Foster, her husband brings suit
against the company for an additional
$1,000 for the loss of the services of
his wife. He says that since her in
jury he has been compelled to aban-
don his practice to a large extent and
devote his entire time to her.
Lena Wilson, as Administrative of
the estate of William Wilson Jr., her
little son, who was killed by the street
cars, last May sues the company for
$4,000. The accident, which followed
close upon the suicide of the childs
father, occurred at Ross street and
Payne avenue. Mrs Wilson and her
little son were crossing the tracks of
the company at this point, when a car
going north, and, according to the
mother, at a rate of speed fully thirty
miles an hour, without bell or warning
of any kind, caught the little fellow on
the fender. and after dragging him a
distance of 125 feet ran over his body
killing him instantly. 1t is charged
that the car was going at such rate
of speed that it was not stopped until
it had Travelled 235 feet past the point
where the boy was struck
The familiar injunction of the con-
ductor to "move up in the aisle," is
responsible for another suit against
the street car company, complaint
having been filed in the district court
yesterday by Lucy 1. Chapman, who
asks damages in the sum of $4,000
IOr injuries aIleSed TO nave been SuS-
tained while coming in on a crowded
car from the state fair grounds, Sept
2. In her complaint, the plaintiff says,
she entered car at the grounds and
was crowded to the foremost end of
/ the car, where she found seat on a
box. On account of the negligent con-
-dition of the electrical apparatus on
the car the metalabout the inside, she
says, had been charged with electricity,
( and when the car gave a sudden lurch
she was thrown forward with her hand
and arm upon some of the charged
metal. She says. her hand and arm
We're badly burned and that she suf-
fered a severe shock. The injuries,
she says, are permanent and she asks
for $4,000.
Emily S. Edwards alleges, that she
was caught in the gates of a Wildwood
car, while endeavoring to alight there
from at the East Seventh street car
barns, one evening this summer. She
says she was dragged several yards
and was so badly injured that she was
confined to her bed and is still in pre-
carious condition. Through her at
torney, H. P. Keller, she sues for
$4,000.