Show SOME SUITS FOR GASH Heavy Damages Demanded for Injuries Sustained AGGREGATE AMOUNT 65000 U S Marshal 1 Hoywood Plaintiff Plain-tiff in Ono Case I James Holmstrom Is Knocked From aBridge a-Bridge by an Engine and Wants 20000 Suits to recover damages amounting to over 65000 were filed In the District court yesterday One of the first actions ac-tions entered upon the docket Is to recover re-cover for the loss of a life This is the case brought by B B Jleywood as administrator ad-ministrator of the estate of Edward IL Beard and is brought against the Union Un-ion Pacific company Beard was n brakeman for the company On October Octo-ber 1 1102 near Granger Wyo he had occasion to uncouple a caboose from the rest of the train The coupler worked with a patent lever but It Is alleged al-leged was out of order In trying to break the train his foot caught in a frog and he fell and was run over by the train He lived but a abort time vafter the accident The amount of the damages claimed is ln000 l JAMES HOLMSTROMS CASE James Holmstrom wants at the rate of 1000 a foot for a fall he sustained near Castle Gate last November He claims he was knocked off u viaduct by a switch engine He fell nearly twenty feet and he places the amount of the damages ho received at 20000 Holmslrom states in the complaint that lie was Peeking work at the time of the accident Upon the advice of agents of the Rio Grande Western he went to Castle Gate where he had to cross a bridge to get to the roundhouse owned by the company An engine started across the bridge bef6re he had reached the other side He says that no signals wre given and he did not notice the approach of the locomotive until it struck him He was thrown some distance and through the viaduct Ills logs left arm shoulder and head he alleges were injured and he has been partly deaf as a result of the accident acci-dent Ills left leg was amputated and he brings suit in the sum of 20000 to recover for the injuries he received SIDNEY = C BENSONS CASE A spike seems to be responsible for a S10000 suit which was filed The action is brought against the Union Lime and Stone company which has its plant l near East Mill creek Sidney C Benson was a driver for the company and operated oper-ated a number of tram cars by means of which rock lime was removed from the quarry The plaintiff claims that 5ome of the rails were not fastened to the ties In one plane a loose spike allowed al-lowed the tracks to spread and one of the cars tipped over Bensons t foot was cauirht underneath and crushed and he brings the suit to recover for the Injuries sustained V H WALLACES CASE A civil suit wan entered late yesterday yester-day afternoon In the District court lore lo-re ov l 120000 The action is i brought by l W H Wallace against the Sacramento Sacra-mento Gold MInlns company and grows out of a dispute over ownership of mining property Wallace claims that the company has encroached upon claims to which he holds the title |