The south bound passenger train ran into a horse, Monday morning at Linwood, and killed it. A boy about twelve years old, a son Mack YARBROUGH, was driving the horse with a load of railroad cross ties. Just before crossing the railroad, he stopped to listen for the train, but as he was in a cut descending to the track, and the train was coming through a cut to the crossing, he heard no noise, and drove on. Just as the horse reached the track, the engine rushed by at full speed. The mail car struck the horse on the shoulder, killing it instantly. The boy was thrown a distance of ten or twelve feed, but was not injured. The wagon was damaged to the extent of broken shaft and some injury to the fore wheels.

Source: Davidson Times-Dispatch, 22  January 1890.  Paper available at Google News Archive.