Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Suits Growing Out of the Railroad Disaster at Kouts. [ARTICLE]

Suits Growing Out of the Railroad Disaster at Kouts.

There have been docketed for trial at the next term of the Porter County Circuit Court the following suits against the Chicago & Atlantic railway, growing out of the Kouts disaster: An—admitrfstrator’s suit to recover SIO,OOO for the deaths of several members of the I Miller family; a guardian’s -suit to recover SIO,OOO for Hermann Miller, the injured bov, who was the only msratvef of 'the Miller family saved from the wreck; a suit ofthe Routs Hotel proprietar to recover .compensation for the care of the Miller boy. Ap indictment far iiivoluntarv manslaughter against John B. Park aud John Dorsey, who are held responsible for the Kouts disaster, will come up. Also a suit brought by Annie Burkhart against theJLouisville, New'Albauy <k Chicago, to recover SIO,OOO for the death of Andrew Burkhart her husband, who was killed on the road of that company.