Fannin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rutledge, J.  September 7, 1886
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The Cherokee Advance 10 Sept 1886 p 3 
Three Men Killed !
About two o'clock Tuesday morning the construction train, at work on upper end 
of the M. & N. Ga. R. R., about Toccoa river, was running backwards with two 
or three flat cars ahead of it, loaded with crossties, when the front car 
struck a cow on the track.  Too (sic) men, Tom Killian, of Gilmer, and J. 
Rutledge of Fannin, were sitting on some ties at the front end of the car, and 
were thrown off on the track, and the cars passed over them and killed them 
almost instantly. 
The train was running very slowly, and stopped within forty feet of where the 
accident occurred.  No blame is attached to the engineer, Will Garwood, nor 
any one else connected with the running of the train, but it is taken to be an 
accident unavoidable and liable to occur at any time under similar 
circumstances.  The men, perhaps, acted very imprudently in sitting where they 
did. 
Both men had families, and the accident is greatly regretted.  The authorities 
did all they could to alleviate the suffering, and provided for the burial of 
the dead. 


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