This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brennan Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pBC.2ACE/3913 Message Board Post: Seattle Post Intelligencer December 4 1890 pg 5 A Widow Demands Damages. John Brennan, an employe at the powerhouse of the Front Street Cable Company made a misstep last July and fell through an opening into the revolving sheave wheels, which instantly whirled him into eternity, and yesterday Mary E Brennan, his widow, brought suit against the cable company for $25,000 damages alleging that her husband’s death was attributable to carelessness and negligence on the part of the company for allowing the place through which he fell to be kept open.