Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
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Latrobe Bulletin
Tuesday, January 7, 1913
L.V.R.R. Sued For $10,000 Damages By Children of Veteran
Damages in the sum of $10,000 are asked from the Ligonier Valley Railroad by W.
Miles Tosh, of the State of Washington, and Mrs. Estella Semple, of Iowa, children of the late George Tosh who met his death in the Wilpen wreck.
The suit was instituted, yesterday, in the Westmoreland county courts, Griffith and Mitchell, of Pittsburgh, appeared as the attorneys for the plaintiffs.
The filing of the papers in this suit indicates that the report, recently spread, to the effect that the company had effected a settlement of all claims growing out of the wreck, was incorrect.
The late George Tosh, a veteran of the Civil War, was 74 years of age when he met his death, in the wreck. He was born in Westmoreland county but lived in Iowa until about twenty years ago when he returned to this section, to look after an invalid sister who resided in Delmont. He wanted the sister to go to Iowa with him, but she would not leave her home. She died, two years ago, and the veteran then went to Wilpen to live. He had property there.
It was his custom to walk from Wilpen to Ligonier, each day, and then to return on the
train. It was while making the return trip, on the afternoon of the fifth of last July that he came to his end.
In their statement of claim the plaintiffs charge that the company was negligent in not providing safety appliances for the running of trains. It is also claimed by the plaintiffs
that the company failed in its duty when it pushed the passenger coach in which their father met his death ahead of the engine, the wreck being caused by two large freight engines crashing into the passenger coach.
The plaintiffs say their father was a vigorous man at the time he was killed and well able to look after his property interests in this county and the state of Iowa. He also received a pension of $20 a month for his services in the civil war from the government.