Asks Damages Of $10,000

ASKS DAMAGES OF $10,000

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Mrs. Berry to Sue the Wabash Railroad

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THROWN FROM HER SEAT

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She Says She was Badly Injured and Has Not Since Recovered From Shock

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Mrs. Margaret Berry, of 1120 Forest avenue, is making preparations, through her attorneys, Cavanaugh & Wedemeyer, to begin suit against the Wabash railroad for $10,000 damages.

Mrs. Berry, in her complaint, says that she left Ann Arbor on the morning of February 14 of this year and went to Toledo. Arriving at the latter city she purchased a ticket over the Wabash road to Champaign, Ill. She took a seat in the ladies' parlor car.
 

She had only gone on her journey a short way when, she declares, "I immediately heard a grating noise by the wheels of the cars and then the cars suddenly stopped and threw me forward, my head striking against the closet or toilet room."

When she arrived at Champaign Mrs. Berry became very ill and a doctor was summoned. She had severe pains at the base of the brain. She recovered somewhat, so that she was able to return to her home in this city, where, she says, she found her "whole nervous system had given away." Since then Mrs. Berry has been in quite a feeble condition.

It is claimed that the train on which Mrs. Berry was traveling was brought to a sudden stop by reason of a flange of one of the wheels under the mail car breaking and flying up and striking the bottom of the car. The mail clerks, hearing the unusual noise, rang the signal bell to stop, and the train, halting suddenly, it is said, threw Mrs. Berry from her seat.