A $10,000 Damage Suit

A $10,000 DAMAGE SUIT

COMMENCED AGAINST MICHI-

GAN CENTRAL RAILROAD

Wm. G. Lewick Was Hoisted on His

Own Pry While Elevating a Tele-

graph Pole.

William G. Lewick, by his attorney

A. J.-Sawyer, has commenced suit

against the Michigan Central railroad

for $10,000 damages. He was employ-

ed by the Central as a carpenter in fit-

ting the cross arms to the new tele-

graph poles being put in between Ged-

des and Franciscoville for six months

and his bill sets forth that on Nov. 18,

1897, when the company was moving a

large pole, whose weight he estimates

at 40 tons, he was called away from

his work as carpenter and asked to as-

sist the men in prying the pole out of

the ground so that it could be moved

into a new hole He charges that

through negligence the pries of the

other employees slipped from the hole

and it fell to the bottom of the hole,

while he was caught by his pry and

thrown 18 feet in the air and falling to the

ground with great force and sustaining

severe injuries to his head, arms, ribs.

back, body and limbs. He claims to

have paid out $500 for physicians,

nurses and help and to have been un-

able to pursue his vocation. For all

of which he wants $10,000 damages.