The Luttrell community was shocked to learn that on Saturday morning, April 16, 1904, Lyde Hubbs and his son, Parlin Hubbs, were killed in a tragic collision of the hack, in which they were riding, and passenger train, No. 6. The train tracks were owned by a company called KCG & LRR, and train No. 6 was due to arrive in Knoxville at 9:10 am. Just as the hack reached the tracks the train slammed into the team of horses and both horses were killed instantly having been carried a considerable distance down the tracks.
Mr. Hubbs and his son, Parlin, were sitting on the front seat of the hack. Mr. Lyde Hubbs was killed instantly; however, Parlin lived a couple of hours and died around 11 am on April 16, 1904. These men were removed to an undertaking establishment by the name of Hall and Donahue.
The Luttrell Times - April 22, 1904 - states that “several friends and family” went from Luttrell to have the bodies removed to the funeral home. It is ironic that the bodies were shipped to Luttrell on train No. 6 where they were buried in the Hubbs-Hickle graveyard. Reverend Joel Acuff conducted the funeral for the two men.
The hack was torn to splinters, and it is a miracle that anyone survived. Two men, Campbell Kelly, and Dempsey Heiskell, were seated in the back of the hack. Kelly was thrown several feet but survived having sustained several cuts and bruises. Heiskell happened to see the train approaching and jumped to safety without injury. Dempsey Heiskell is my father who died in 1944; however, I only read about this accident after I began working on Union County history. My mother was still living at the time; and, when I asked her about it, she told me that in fact my father had told her about the accident. He said if he had not jumped he thought he would surely have been killed. Campbell Kelly is the great grandfather of Carl McDaniel and Ruth Kelly Collins and their siblings.
When I called Carl back in 2009,to verify that he was a descendant of Campbell Kelly, he shared a bit of Civil War history that I had not been aware of:

On the first of March, 1863, Campbell Kelly went to Knoxville, TN with his nephew, Samuel Nathan Kelly, to enlist in the Confederate Army. Samuel was the son William Kelly (1820-1901). Campbell and Samuel were the same age and grew up together near Luttrell, TN. They were both 23 years old at the time of their enlistment. On 9 March 1863 they became Privates in Company D, 2nd (Ashby’s) Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army.

Campbell Kelly was thrown from his horse in a saber fight at Somerset, KY. He was injured from the fall and was captured on March 30, 1863. He was taken to prison at Louisville, KY.

Upon his parole on April 21, 1863 Campbell was ordered home to Condon, [Plainview]Union Co., Tennessee due to his injuries. Since he was paroled, Campbell served no additional time in the Confederate States Army. (Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications, Soldier’s #S2513, Union Co., TN, Unit 2nd (Ashby’s) Cavalry).

Samuel Kelly suffered a similar fate, but with more severe consequences. Samuel was captured near Louisville, KY and spent three years in Delaware in one of the worst Union army’s prison camp. He returned home three years later.

Campbell Kelly died in 1911 and is buried in Kelly Cemetery at Luttrell. Dempsey Heiskell died in 1944 and is buried in Ousley Cemetery.

The accident occurred near what is now the intersection of Old Broadway and Whittle Springs Road very close to the old underpass. Over the years so many persons were killed here in train accidents that an underpass was finally built. With more recent road construction, another underpass has been added.

Sources: Descendants of John Hubbs by Ruth Hart and Karen Cooper
The Luttrell Times April 22, 1904
Kelly family history
Heiskell oral history