Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles August 26, 1904
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THE MARYVILLE RECORD August 26, 1904
Friday, August 26, 1904



Harriett Loudon, a colored woman in the east part of town, died Tuesday and

was buried in the Colored Cemetery Wednesday.



A still-born child of Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNutt was buried Thursday.



Two Men Dead---A terrible accident occurred at the railroad bridge across

Little River about two o’clock Wednesday afternoon in which two men lost their

lives. The contractors who are putting in the new railroad bridge at that

point had a force of men excavating under the tracks to get a place for a new

pier. They had the embankment dug off for some distance from the old pier and

had the track supported on piles. The face of the bank was between twenty-five

and thirty feet high and nearly perpendicular. The men of whom there were

eight, were digging away at the foot of the bank when suddenly the whole front

fell over on them. Six of the men were near the edge of the fall and soon got

out with a few bruises. The other two, James Isbell of Knoxville and Enoch

Reed of Rockford, were further back and were crushed beneath many tons of

earth. Neighbors and the neighboring section crews were summoned to the place

and went to digging for the unfortunates. The bodies were reached a time or

two but additional slides occurred and delayed the work so that the bodies

were not recovered until about two o’clock Thursday morning. The bodies were

crushed but not mangled. Both of the dead men were young and unmarried.

Isbell’s father was the foreman in charge of the work. Trains were delayed on

account of the cave in so that none crossed from the time the noon passenger

went to Knoxville Wednesday until Thursday morning. The accident appears to

have been entirely inforseen and unavoidable. The railroad company had nothing

whatever to do with the work, as the entire job was let by contract, and

consequently has no responsibility in the case.





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