Raymond Tuttle
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Abt 1905
Death: Jul 1919 - Laurel County, Kentucky
Burial:
Parents
Father: Joseph Rufus Tuttle 1 2
Mother: Susan A. Johnson
Notes
General:
Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky
Thursday July 24, 1919
TWO KILLED BY TRAINS
Robert Early (sic) and Raymond Tuttle Lose Lives in Front of Trains
ANOTHER IS REPORTED DEAD
There are two appalling deaths in Laurel County during the week, both being killed by a train.
Early Saturday morning, about one o-clock, Robert Early, son of Rev. Geo. Early, of Boreing, was killed by a train at Hazlepatch (sic). He was teaching school some five miles from Hazlepatch and had come to catch the train home.
A freight, which was preceding the passenger only a few minutes, struck him and he was picked up dead, though no bones were broken and tehre were no very great bruises.
It is not known just what caused his death, but one theory is advanced that he had caught his foot in the track in some manner, as one of his shoes, though still alced and tied, had been pulled from his foot either when he was hit or just before..
It was on a sharp curve and the engineer could not see him, but the fireman did just before he weas struck and he says he was holding up a grip in one hand and seemingly a paper in the other and waving as though to flag the train.
Young Early, who is eighteen years old, has been a student of the S.B.M.S. and has many friends here, a number of whom attended the funeral at the Camp Ground Sunday morning.
The second death, about 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, was that of Raymond Tuttle, the fourteen year old son of Mr. and MRs. J.R. Tuttle, of Lexington, who have been in London some time on account o the illness of Mrs. Tuttle's mother, Mrs. T.J. Johnson, Sr.
The boy, in company with two cousins, Theo and Roy Johnson, had been to the Sasser swimming pool and was returning home along the railroad track. Near the House crossing, south of the London station, the boys crossed the track in front of a freight train going south and Tuttle, being the last, was run down by the work train going north, which he could not hear on account of the other train. He was picked up alive, but died before reaching the station. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. Thornton of the Baptist church at Rough Creek Monday afternoon, was attended by a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends.
It is also reported that a tramp was killed Sunday near Fariston, but we are unable to verify this.