Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — Two Suits For $10,000. [ARTICLE]

Two Suits For $10,000.

Two damage suits for ten thousand dollars each were filed Friday in the circuit court at Delphi against the Wabash railroad company by Craven Smith and John H. Cartwright, administrators of the estates of the late Dr. Smith and Francisco M. Sousa, his Cuban boy friend, who were killed by a Wabash train west of that city on the afternoon of December 29th last. The circumstances the shocking accident are well remembered. In the complaint in the Sousa case it is alleged that the boy, who was but eighteen years of age, was the oldest son of a widow lady residing in Havana; that he has two sisters and brothers of tender years and that they were dependent on him.