The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-11-13
ENTIRE COUNTY SHARES THE SORROW AND
INDIGNATION OF THE ASSASSINATION OF
ITS GREATEST AND TRUEST SON.
MURDER MuRpERERs DEN ouNcED UNINSURED TERMS
EVERY HAND-FALsE ACCOUNT OF THE
IN MACHINE ORGAN MAKES FOOD FOR BON
ON SEVENTH STREET.

When the news reached Columbia
hat Senator e. w. Carmack, the coun-
tvs most honored and beloved citizen,
#had been laid low on the streets of
Nashville by the bullet of a blood
thirsty assassin, the entire commune
IT. seemed to stand still, SO great was
the shock and so deep the grief and
Indignation.
The news of the assassination first
came in a message to The Columbia
8Herald and for few minutes was
Suppressed that friends might be noti-
Hfed and have time to reach the Car
mack home on West Seventh street
and break the news of the terrible
tragedy as gently as possible. Then
5 the public was appraised of the awful
Iced and the news spread like wild
\ fire. apparently covering the entire
county in less than thirty minutes.
Friends gathered in greet numbers in
& the Office of The Herald and in front
of the entrance, and on all sides there
were expressions of sincere grief and
of deepest indignation and resentment.
As friend would tell friend of the trag-
edy the shock was plainly evident and
then would come the outburst.
Those gathered at the Office were {
Eager for details Of the tragedy but |
lat that time there was little to give
out, as only the vaguest news beyond
he bare facts of the tragedy, could /
.be received from Nashville, the people
of the capital city appearing to be as
confused and grief-stricken as the peo-
pie of Senator Carmack's home. In a
lew minutes the two phones in The
Herald office began to ring and from
that time ON till late hour at night
calls were received from all parts
Of the county, asking for information.
the county as was the
Ease here in Columbia, there were ex-
r'ssions of deepest grief and indigna-
ion.
At the Carmack home there was a
Gene of deepest desolation and I'M
peakable sorrow. Dr. Robert Pillow,
Who lives almost next door was one
f the first to reach the scene. Judge
lam Holding, Dr. G. A. Forgey and
irs Mary Hine were there only few :
ljnutes later, and soon the home and
ard we're filled with sorrowtng
lends who came to lay down their
brow beside that of the stricken
lmily and offer what aid and consola- :
on they could. Mrs. Carmack for :
7" was like one stricken, but strong :
I'D noble woman that she Is, she raj :
.l wonderfully well, and was imbued
ih one idea--to go to her fallen :"
'ro to the man she loved so deeply :"
Id almost idolized and bring him to a.
at home where they had known so -
oca Of JOY and so much Of sorrow. -
BnI one of the saddest sights was -
d grief of Ned Carmack, Jr. Only o.
Ho Years of age, the greatest sorrow u'
81 to the loss OF his mother, had .
fallen him and he wept bitter tears %
grief. To him, his noble father u
the best and greatest man In all -
world. Senator Carmack had no p'
ne ardent or loyal supporter in the
nnds OF Maury than his little son, p
to think that the father he loved
we'll had been taken from him.
e shock to Mrs. Ellen Huntington,
aged mother Of Mrs. Carmack, was
she is not likely to fully recover
m She is nearing four score and lur
heen in feeble health for long Of
lie and during the past few months ira
family have been very uneasy Ev
r her condition. II
hurled prepadations we're made at she
l.