Butts County GaArchives News.....Horrible Accident - Jim O'Rear October  1887
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Middle Ga Argus

A Horrible Accident, in Which Jim O’Rear is Killed

Our whole town and community was shocked on Thursday morning when the news was 
made public that Jim O’Rear had been killed by the train at Flovilla during the 
previous night.  Mr. O’Rear had been flagging on Capt. Gignalliat’s gravel 
train for only about one month when the terrible accident occurred.   Previous 
to that time he had been the chief painter in J.R. Carmichael & Co’s Carriage 
Manufactory and becoming tired of the confinement of the paint shop took the 
position as flagman as above stated.

At the time he was killed he was passing from one coal car to another while the 
train was slowly moving, and missing his footing, fell between the cars and was 
crushed to death in an instant by the ponderous wheels.  His left hand was cut 
off and his breast terribly mangled.  His remains were brought to Jackson and 
buried in the city cemetery on Friday at 10 o’clock.  Rev. T. H. Timmons 
conducting the funeral rites.  He was the son of Mr. John O’Rear of this place 
and brother to Messrs. Will and Daniel O’Rear of Atlanta.  About one year ago 
he was married to Miss Claudie Falkner of Jasper County.   The Argus tenders to 
all the bereaved ones its sympathies.

Middle Ga. Argus – Week of October 4, 1887


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