Instead it was Ray Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. W D. Long, who was to accompany him. Had Mr. Ream known the true state of affairs he would have gone along, being an experienced and licensed chauffer himself. Contrary to the statement appearing in several papers, Mr. Carnahan died from shock, and not from an injury, according to Dr. Stewart H. Schrock, deputy coroner, who held the inquest and examined the body. No bones were broken and there was no abrasion of the skin. Be ye also ready, for in an hour that ye know not the Son of Man cometh.
Death rides aloft on every breeze and lurks in every flower.
It comes with the lightning flash, from the blast of a tornado, and on sea and land we see its relentless hand. The rich, the poor, the old, the young must pass under its rod. To our brother the blow was quick and relentless and his spirit was wafted away in a moment to that land whence no traveler ever returns. He came with his parents to Clay when two years of age and the father settled on land in Section 11 and from the dense forest burned coal, lumbered, split rails and plowed among stumps until a good farm and comfortable home was obtained. Those pioneer days were trying and the hardships many.