The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-02-02

OF wildly excited men, headed by Two
members of the city fire department.
One of them carried a Winchester rife
and the other was telling him to PUT
down that thing and go back" He
finally agreed to do this and the crowd
under his leadership melted away.
Within three minutes after the
shooting a line of men was thrown
around the building from which the
shots had come, with the intention of
preventing the escape of anybody
from the structure. John w. Miles,
an aged citizen of Frankfort, was
standing at the foot of the stairway
leading from the first floor of the of
flee building to the west, when a man,
evidently a mountaineer, came rush
ing down the steps. Miles instantly
threw his arms around the mans bU,iy
holding him with all his strength AMI
calling loudly for help.
EX-Mayor Ira Julian was early on
the scene advising the crowd to dis.
perse.
"Let the blood be on the head of the
assassins. They have openly boosted
for months that Senator Goebel
would never be governor of the state.
They always intended to prevent it in
this way. Let us have no rioting; if
we do they are prepared to rush in
the federal bayonets."
AT 1880 o'clock Senator Goebel was
taken to his room at the Capitol no.
tel and dozen physicians are making
an examination of his wounds.
The report from the room is that
but one of the bullets struck him;
this is in the right breast. Senator
McChord says there is bare posi-
bility of recovery.
Mr.. Urey Woodson said: "The SEN
ator is conscious, but speechless. DR..
Hume informs me that he WI re-
cover"
The bullet struck the right side just
few inches below the shoulder joins
and came out under the shoulder
| blade.
John Whitaker, of Butler, Gov. Tay-
| lor's home county, was arrested few
minutes after the shooting trying to
escape from the building from which
the shots were fired. He was caught
by John E. Miles, a man of past -
wears of age. When searched five pis-
tolls were taken off his person.
Thirty minutes after the shooting
at the state house, another took place
half square away, in which Ike Will
! liams, colored, was shot, it is thought
fatally. Craig Ireland, of Louisville
a white man did the shooting. 1t
happened in the saloon of Chas. Mat
thews. In the rush to get to the state
house Ireland and Williams collided
The negro struck Ireland, and he
pulled his pistol and fired He was
promptly locked up in Jail.
Both Col. Chinn and Warden LillarC
declared that smokeless powder was
used in the cartridges that were fireC
at Mr.. Goebel.
81 heard the Shots" said Co.. Chinn
land looked around for, | suppose
about one-thousandth part of a sec
ond to see where it was. and theI
down went Goebel right at my side
While | was holding him in my arms
| looked right at the building from
which the shots came, and to save m,
life l could not see a sign of smoke
| know something about firearms my
self, and | knew that man was pump
ing a rifle, and that that many riff
shots would have made enough smol
for ne to have seen some of it, if i
had been in the range of my eye"
Warden Lillard also declared h
could see no sign of smoke, and add
ed: at made me wild, because | coul
not tell where the fellow was. Their
was never a sign of smoke from tina
building"
The republican officials acted wit
the greatest promptitude. Adjt. Gel
Collier was sitting in his office whe
the shots were fired. He was not owe
300 feet from Goebel when he fell. ii
instantly rushed out of the buildin
and, being told that Goebel had bee
shot, he realized that prompt step
must be taken TO AVOID the turbulenc
which might easily fellow the grea
: excitement, which was increasing e'
= cry minute. lie at once telephone
TO the armory on the hill, where n
during the gubernatorial contest I'll
l local company of infantry had bee
P held in reserve, and within 20 minut,
the company, 80 strong, under con
E mand of Capt. Wolcott was drawn u
a in front Of the capitol building Guar
T, were placed at every gate leading I
2 the capitol grounds, and nobody wa
n permitted To enter OF leave.
There was talk on every side Of pla
J ing under arrest every man who W