Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Cutts, Lizzie March 1887
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The Marion County Patriot, March 18, 1887
The Marion County Patriot, No. 11
March 18, 1887
Page Eight

Georgia News

The Americus Recorder says: Lizzie Cutts, a middle aged white woman, was run 
down and killed by the 9:33 express train on the Central railroad yesterday 
morning.  She, in company with a Mrs. Dunn, were walking down the track towards 
the A.P. & L. trestle to get a turn of wood, and when near the railroad shops 
at the foot of Church street saw the express train approaching.  Mrs. Dunn at 
once stepped from the track, and advised Lizzie to do so, but the later replied 
that she could “out run the train,” and immediately started down the track at a 
lively gait.  Engineer Frank McGhee sounded the whistle but did not slacken 
speed at once, he expected every moment to see her step from the track, but as 
she continued running, he set the airbrakes and tried to stop the train, but in 
a second, almost, the pilot struck her, throwing her some ten or fifteen feet 
beyond the rail.  The woman died in a few minutes (the rest of the last 
sentence is blurred.)


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