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Show ENTERS SUIT AGAINST RAILROAD FOR INJURIES As tho roault of nn accident on tho Denver & Bio Grande now Durango, Col., on Christinas evo, 1905, Ivathorine Portor has instituted an action in. the Third District court against tho company com-pany for $50,000. Tho dotails of tho accident aro givou in tho complaint filed Saturday. Tbo plaintiff is a resident of Duranpco, but is in this city temporarily. On tho day of tho accident she bought a ticket, she says, from Silvorton, Col., to Duran-go. Duran-go. About throe miles out of Durango tho train upon which sho was ridiug left tho track and skidded along tho cros3 ties for sevoral hundred yards before "turning turtle" and rolling down a deep embankment. Tho woman savs sho was thrown across the car when the train left tho track and her right arm forced through tho window. Tho coach, she says, then turned on its sido and her arm was almost ground from her body. Tho rescue train hurried her to a hospital at Duraugo, and it became nocessary to nmputaio the member botvveon tho wrist and elbow. el-bow. The plaintiff says sho was an ei-fioiont ei-fioiont hairdresser and manicurist bc-foro bc-foro the loss of her arm, but she is now unublo to pursuo her forraor occupation. occu-pation. In addition to tho amount of tho damngeB claimed for her injury she is nski'ng for $325, which she declares is tho amount of hor hospital aud surgical sur-gical expenses. |