01017.xml NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. GENERAL CLAIMS: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by staff. Funded by grants from the Northwest Area Foundation, the Grotto Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation, 2011-June 2012. Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Meagan Kellom, November 2011. Finding aid written in English OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Northern Pacific Railway Company. General Claims Department. General Claims Dept. records. Northern Pacific Railway Company records. 1883-1938. Materials in English. Register of injuries sustained, annual summaries of claims, and case files of the General Claims Department. 3.3 cubic feet (5 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Registers, annual summaries of claims, and case files describe injuries sustained by employees and others in the course of Northern Pacific business, amounts paid for personal injury or deaths, lost baggage, fire losses, and stock killed, as well as cases heard in Montana courts concerning the June 1929 flood at Wibaux.

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[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. General Claims Dept. records. Northern Pacific Railway Company records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 8844; 8850; 8851; 8852; 8853; 8854; 11,709

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 7540035

Work on the Northern Pacific Railway Company records was supported with funds granted by the Northwest Area Foundation, the Grotto Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

CATALOG HEADINGS

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Topics: Floods -- Montana - Wibaux. Railroad accidents -- Northwestern States. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Claims departments. Organizations: Northern Pacific Railway Company. Document Types:Case files. Photographs. DETAILED DESCRIPTION Personal Injury Record, 1916-1917

Register of injuries sustained by employees and others in the course of Northern Pacific business. Gives name, date, place, nature of injury, description of accident, and disposition of the matter.

132.I.9.5B1916-1917. Annual claims report, 1883-1897

Annual summery of claims and amount paid for personal injuries/deaths, lost baggage, fire losses, and stock killed for the eastern and western divisions.

132.I.9.5B1883-1897. Wibaux Montana Flood Cases, 1898-1938

Cases heard before the Montana District Court, December 1934; Montana Supreme Court, December 1935; and Federal Court, October 1937 relating to the June 1929 flood at Wibaux, Montana.

134.L.18.4F1Main file correspondence, 1929-1938: Part I, June 1929-May 1931. Part II, May-September 1931. Part III, September 1931-March 1933. Part IV, March-November 1933. Part V, December 1933-January 1934. Part VI, January 1934-January 1936. Part VII, November 1936-January 1938. Correspondence regarding the Dahl case, Baker, Montana, December 1934.2 folders. Correspondence with George Vinton, court reporter, January 1935-February 1937. Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, 1898-1937. 134.L.18.5B2Original statements, 1931.

Includes 2 folders of photographs.

Statements, A-K, March-September 1931. Transcripts, Wibaux Realty Company, Baker, Montana, January 1934. Transcripts, Defendant's lay witnesses, 1934. Transcripts, Plaintiff's lay witnesses, 1934. Testimonies, January 1934. Affidavits concerning conduct of jury, January 1934. Testimonies, (Dahl etc. cases), December 1934. Testimonies, (Decker etc. cases), March 1937. 134.L.18.6F3Statements and miscellaneous, Defendant's witnesses, L-Z, March 1937. Proposed defendant's witnesses, October 1937. Cross examination notes, plaintiff's witnesses, 1933-1937. Photographs: Unidentified/undated, 1929, 1931, 1937. Nos. 1-9, unidentified/undated. October 24, 1935. Maps and weather bureau data, 1918-1929. Miscellaneous data, 1929. Wibaux Realty Company, Supreme Court decision, December 1935.