Individual Details

Death

CRUSHED BY CARS

Flagman T. R. Furr Killed at Oliver Springs.

Accident Occurred at 5 p.m. on Monday.

Body Brought to the City on the Night Train and Will Be Shipped to North Carolina.

T. R. Furr, a flagman employed by the Southern railway, was instantly killed last evening about five o'clock, at Oliver Springs. He was standing on the caboose of freight train number 48, east bound, while some cars were being shifted. When the shock caused by the cars bumping together occurred, Furr, who was facing toward the forward end of the train, lost his balance and fell from the caboose, and between that and the car next ahead of it. He fell across the tracks, and several of the cars passed over him, the train being just slowing up at the time. The unfortunate man was instantly killed, and scarcely gasped after he had been picked up from beneath the cars. The body was brought to the city last evening on the passenger train from Harriman, and was taken to the undertaking establishment of E. B. Mann & Co., where it was prepared for burial. At the request of Furr's father, W. R. Furr, of this city, the body will be taken on the morning train today to Glen Alpine, N. C., where the funeral will be held and the interment will take place in the family burying ground near there, and where Furr’s mother is buried. Furr was married and lived in this city. He has been employed by the Southern as a trainman for several years and was generally considered a very careful competent man. So far as could be learned, no blame attaches to the other members of the train crew for the accident, which seems to have been one of those occurrences which could not be foreseen or avoided.
The Journal and Tribune, Knoxville, Tennessee, September 4, 1900