Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-22
WRECK VICTIMS
SEEK REDRESS
MANY DAMAGE SUITS ARE
FILED
Railways and Gas Companies Made
Defendants In Several Cases.
Abbot Kinney Company
Sues Individual
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> LIST OF DAMAGE SUITS

@ May f.. Anderson vs.. Los An 9
@ geles Gas company, $4,000. Q
@ Harry T.. Yerger vs.. H.. A. Gas 9
@ company, $500. .
@ Henry stnndemann VS.. Pacific Q
g Electric, $500. g
@ ID. E. Moore VS. l.. A. RedondO. 9.
@ S2O,5OO. .
@ Abbot Kinney company VS.. 9
q Clarence v. Reynolds, S1644. g
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1t was record day yesterday in
the Los Angeles superior courts in the
filing of heavy damage cases against
the various corporations for the many
accidents of the past few months.
OF the four suits filed against cor
porations one alone filed by a corpora
tion against an individual appeared on
the list, and that was for a small
amount.
May r. Andersons suit headed the
list. Miss Anderson lost her limbs
through amputation after the terrible
disaster at the Cressaty restaurant.
The young woman was the sole sup
port of her invalid mother She
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save up enough to defray the expenses
of an operation to be performed upon
her mother and she had succeeded in
raising almost all the required amount
when the gas explosion at Cressaty's
restaurant put her in a most pitiable
condition, took all her money for i'm
mediate expenses and left her a physi-
cal wreck for the rest of her life.
She has received a little more than
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individuals throughout the city. She
asks in her suit for $4,000 damages
against the gas company, alleging that
officials of the company, through care
1eSsness, were responsible for the Cres-
saty restaurant explosion.
Explosion Victims Sue
At present Miss Anderson is in the
hospital, and as the suit will soon be
set for trial it is more than probable
that she will have to be carried into
court on a stretcher to give her testi-
mony when the suit is called for settle
ment before a jury.
A companion suit to the one filed by
Miss Anderson is that filed by Harry
L. Yerger, a tailor, whose place of
business was destroyed by the Cres-
saty explosion. Most of the employees
of Yerger's establishment were either
capped practically unhurt.
His entire business, with the many
suits being cleaned there at the time
was destroyed, and he had no insur-
ance on it. He asks $500 from the
gas company to repay him for the loss
of his business, placing, as does Miss
Anderson the blame of the explosion
at the gas company's door,
Railway Companies Sued
Echoes of two other terrible disasters
in which the street railways are held
to blame are heard in the suits of
Henry Stademann and D. e. Moore,
filed yesterday in the superior courts.
Stademann was passenger on the
ill-fated Brooklyn avenue car that ran
away down the First street gooseneck
hill on the morning of October 13,
manning and killing many. Stademann
alleges that the carelessness of the
company was responsible for the in
juries he received in that accident. He
asks $500.
D. E. Moore, a victim of the Re
dondo wreck, asks $20,50O. He claims
a partial paralysis of his right side,
fracture of the right shoulder and
many other injuries. The Redondo col
lision occurred on Forty-second street
on August 13, two cars meeting head
on and killing and injuring many.
Many suits are pending from those
two wrecks and more are yet to come
The conductor who gave the signal
for the cars to advance on the same
track is under indictment on a charge
of manslaughter, but is still at large.
Abbot Kinney company is the only
corporation plaintiff in the suits filed
yesterday. Clarence V. Reynolds, the
defendant to the suit, is the proprietor
of the Ocean Park bath house The
Kinney company asks that Reynolds
be elected from the place and be made
to pay $1144 back rent and $500 dam
ages for unlawful detainer.