Show i fOR lOSS OF LIFE MIs Willman Wants 40000 for Husbands Death I ACTION IN FEDERAL COURT Conductor Killed on the Lucin S CutOff Southern Pacific Is Made tho Defendant S Defend-ant nnd Gross Negligence Is Charged S I An effort Is being mae In the Federal court to recover SIOOOO for the loss of a life The papers wero tiled csterduy with S J R Letcher clerk of the United Stutes court Tho plalntliT Is I Anna Maud WI11 mnn administratrix of the estate of W A TVlllman The latter was formerly a freight S conductor In the employ of the Southern Pacific railroad and had charge of work trains used on the Lucln cutoff S ASLEEP IN fOx CAR I On March 11th ho had charge of tho gravel trains At that time the road had a box car which it had remodeled and switched Into one of the side tracks for tho use of the workmen who had to sleep at tho end of the uncompleted line overnight S over-night Conductor Vlllman wont to sleep S In the car and about 30 oclock at night on tho date named a water car was sidetracked side-tracked on the switch The car was sent Into tho spur with such force that It struck the caboose in which the men slept and demolished It Wlllman was killed I 5 5 SWITCH LEFT OPEN Tho suit tiled yesterday IR I the outcome I of that accident The plaintiff explains In her allegations that the box car was remodeled I re-modeled Into a cAbooc1 for tho use of the men and that they slept In It She charges that the sleeping men should have been I t protected with proper safeguards but that r his I was not done It Is charged that the accident was caused by a misplaced switch This was left open and the water cnr ran Into It at the rate of twenty miles nn hour It IB alleged that the accident was due entirely to the negllponco of the company which Is made the defendant of the suit and the plaintiff therefore asks for damages In tho sum named |