The shocking events of June 30, 1903 may have left most Texans at a loss for words but not an East Texas editor, who wrote, “The trage- dy is the first of its kind in the history of the state and is the most appalling in the annals of the South.”
Col. Robert Marshall Love was chewing the fat with a preacher from Bonham on that fateful morning, when an ex-employee burst into his capitol ovce. The un…
