Blount County TN Archives News.....News Articles August 10, 1905
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THE MARYVILLE RECORD August 10, 1905
Friday, August 10, 1905



Last Sunday as the hands at one of the lumber camps of the Little River Lumber

Company, in the upper end of Tuckaleechee Cove, were enjoying themselves

telling yarns and drinking, they had a misunderstanding and several pulled

pistols and began shooting around freely to prove their argument. As usual the

innocent bystander occupied all the danger spots. Tom Messner was standing in

the door of his cabin when a bullet hit him in the leg, inflicting an ugly

wound. His partner, Walter Heffner, a Carolinian about 26 years old, went to

his assistance, and, as he stooped over, a bullet ripped up his back and cut

an artery in his arm. Another hand, when the stray bullets came whistling

around, thought the shooting was for his benefit. So he drove into his cabin

and contributed a few shots from his trusty Winchester. There was so much

miscellaneous shooting going on that it would be impossible to say whose

bullets did the damage. Heffner was bleeding badly and was seen to be in

serious condition. He was bandaged and put on a hand-car, and a force started

with him for Knoxville, 40 miles away, to place him in a hospital. But before

they had covered half the distance, while near Hubbard Siding, the wounded man

died. The body was brought to this city and taken to Pflanze’s undertaking

establishment, where it was prepared for burial and the next morning sent to

his home in North Carolina. It is claimed that the men in these lumber camps

are regularly supplied with moonshine whiskey from up in the mountains, and

that this together with the habit of carrying pistols, is responsible for

nearly all the troubles and disturbances in these lumber camps, as all who

know the hands employed there declare that they are as nice and orderly a lot

of men, when sober, as are to be found anywhere.



Charles Everett, near Forest Hill Church, died last Sunday of typhoid fever.

The funeral was held at Forest Hill Church Monday and was largely attended.

The Junior Order, of which he was a member, attended in large numbers.



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