In a Loving Farewell to His Devoted Wife William McKinley, the twenty-fourth President of the United States, died at 2.15 Saturday morning. : The bullet fired by Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist assassin, has done its aw- ful work. The nation is bowed in grief. Theodore Roosevelt, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, is now the President. President McKinley's end was peace- ful. The noble courage and Christian spirit which had characterized his splen- did public career and his sweet domes- tic life were pathetically shown in his last moments of consciousness. His one thought was of his wife, who held his hand in a loving, lingering farewell. His last words were to her. They were: “Good-by, All, Good-by. It is God's Way. His Will be done.” Members the Cabinet, Secretary Cortelyou and the others who had watched through the hours of suspense and anixety from the first ing spell, caused by heart failure, Friday morning, entered the of the dying President, touche d and murmured a word of | About 7-40 o'clock the President y uttered the words of his I y er, my God, into uncons From the time perienced the first sey ut 2 Friday o'clock Friday ever given and saline solution stimulate the action of the heart. Oxygen » admimstered It seemed was be- ot Ciou o clock enfeebled be allowed to die. gen was The phy s disagree cause of t i dent's cond that an OpSY © termine eXa The members exception of the bere: at the deathbed in an adjoin the only ph; Sus END OF A LONG STRUGGLE. Tearful Farewells and Thea a Wait Until Death Came to the President. N. Y. (Special).—The $A M lent died at 2.13 about the death The President Unconscious state Rixey remained until were death came i Ine re thao yom at syn temel 4 parce io consultation ha i “About 2 « inmistakable the immediate members Tail SINS summoned } McKinley was asl ed best not * moments “Silent; the family er stood about t bed where the ing away. Those in th Abner McKinley, the re brother: Mrs. Abner McKinley, Helen, the President's sister: Mrs rah Duncan, another sister: Miss Barber, a niece: Miss Sarah Duncan Lieut. J. F. McKinley, a nephew : William M. Duncan, a nephew: Chas CG. Dawes, Comptroller of the Curren. ey: F. M. Osborne, a Col Webb 'C. Hayes, John Barber. a nephew: Secretary George B. Cortel- you, Col. W. C. Brown, business part ‘ner of Abner McKinley: Dr. Rixe ¥, the family physician, and six nurses and attendants, In adjoining rooms sat Drs MeBaur. ney, Wasdin, Parke, Stockton and Myn.- ter. It wig now 2.05 o'clock and the min- utes were slipping away, Only the sobs of those in the circle about the Presi- dent's bedside broke the silence. Five minutes passed, then six, seven, eight, Now Dr. Rixey bent forwa-d and then one of his hands was raised as if in warning. The fluttering heart was just Ing to rest. A moment more and Dr. ixey straightened up. With choking voice he said: “The President is dead!” Secretary Cortelyou was the turn from the stricken cird: He step- ped from the chamber to the outer hall and then down the stairway to the large room where the members of the Cabi. net, Senators and distinguished officials were assembled. As his tense, white face a red at the doorway a hush fell upon t “Gentlemen, the away,” he said. For a moment not a word came in re- ply. Even though the end had been ex- ted the actual announcement {Vitliam McKinley was dead fairly ned these men who had been his clos. est confidants and advisers, Mis 5 Sa Mary Cousin: first to resident has passed groan of anguish went up from the as sembled officials. They cried outright like children. All the pent-up emotions of the last few days were let loose They turned from the room and emerged from the house with streaming eyes for the fate of the dead President He died unattended by the Gospel, but his last words were an humble submission he will of in whom he believed. The Ch trate was reconciled to the which an assassin’s bullet had co ed him and faced death in of calmness and poise his long His words, reduced to writing who stood at his bedside + uttered, were as fo “Good-by all! way. His will be ¢ Friends came room, took a lon tearfully away fur Gurin a minister of to career to CONSCIions Members of 5 saw the Presi there was a hushed ex President soft] ‘ RE hymn “Nearer, before he lapsed Ini begged the d It really 3 : had been died at 2 0 CIOCK ne pronounce Se breastbone did not pass through the skin and did little harm. The other bullet passed through both walls of the stom- ach, near its lower border. Both holes were found to be perfectly closed by the stitches, but the tissue around each hole had become gangrenous. After passing through the stomach the bullet passed into the back walls of the abdomen. hit ting and tearing the upper end of the kidney. This portion of the bullet track was also gangrenous, the gangrene in volving the pancreas “The bullet has not been found There was no sign of peritonitis or dis case of other organs. The heart walls were very thin, There was no evidence yet nature, and death resulted from the gangrene which affected the around the bullet wounds, as well as the tissues around the further course of the bullet. Death was unavoidable by any surgical or medical treatment and was the direct result of the bullet wound. "Harvey D. Gaylord, M.D.: Herman G. Matzinger, M.D.; P. M. Rixey, M.D. : Matthew D. Mann, M.D. : Herman Myn- ter, M.D.; Roswell Parke, M.D.: Fu- Wasdin, M.D.: Charles G. Stock- on, M.D.; Edward G. Janeway, M.D.: W. W. Johnson, M.D.; W. P. Kendall, surgeon, LU. S. A.; Charles Cary. M.D. : Edward LI. Munson, Assistant Surgeon U.S. A. and Hermanus L. Baer. M.D.” The official announcement of the phy- sicians as the result of their autopsy on the President's body that death resulted from gangrene of tl wounds much discussion he causes leading up to its gangre ondition It de veloped that 1s he sulting physician 1 an expert of high stand the ANE In COn- ice The Third President of the Viexander Col. Webb dent? 1 asl y away at 2 replied Colonel Haves, ‘He died peacefully and without pain. like a man sinking to sleep. For three hours or more he had been practically dead and his extremities had been wholly dead. Only a faint flicker at intervals told that he still lived. Occasionally he uttered a faint exclamation ‘Oh! and before he quite lost consciousness Dr. Stockton, bending over him, heard him repealing the words of the hymn, ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee. “Secretaries Root, Wilson, Long and Hitchcock, Attorney-General Knox, Senators Hanna, Fairbanks and Burrows and Representatives Ryan and myself filed through the President's room about 11 o'clock and saw him for the last time alive. So quietly did he pass away that the members of the Cabinet who were gathered in the dining room did not know when he diced.” Senator Burrows, who left the house with his handkerchief pressed to his eyes, could hardly speak so great was his emotion, “The President's death seemed pain- Ices,” said he. “He seemed to fall into calm and peaceful repose.” DEATH DUE TO GANGRENE. o€1 o clock Mr. McKinley's Body. Mulburn House, Buffalo, N. Y. (Spe- cial) ~The following is the report of the autopsy upon the remains of President Me Jule: “The bullet which struck over the States to Die by tl vitabie re £3 ¢ fo and tha nie " tue family and the pr were | physicians surgeons making the amtopsy.” 1 represented among the and LEAVES HOUSE OF DEATH Simple Fuccral Services Over the Body-—A Dramatic Incident. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). ~Siriking in their simplicity were the services held here Sunday morning over all that re- mains of William McKinley save the memory of him that will linger in the hearts of the American people. Except for the presence of many of the most distinguished men in the na- ion the services in the Milburn house might have been the last words said over any of a hundred thousand men. Barely two hundred persons were ad- mitted to the house, and those only by ion. Except for the news- guard of police there were few within a block of the cottage while the ser- vices were in progress. he coffin was taken down stairs and put in the large library at the front of the house, just off the hall, It rested between the two front windows, with the head toward the street and about two feet from a large pier glass. The up per half of the coffin was open, and on the lower half rested a large wreath of purple violets, roses and white chrysanthemums. Two other wreaths of red roses and white chrysanthemums shelf at the Base of ca was aped with a large Amero flag. Only the thinness of his face bore mute testimony to the patient suffering which the murdered President had en- dured. He was dressed as he usually was in life. The black frock coat was buttoned across the breast first bullet of the assassin had struck A black string tie below the standing collar showed the little triangle of white shirt front. The right hand lay at his side. The left was across his bady Most of these invited had entered when, at 10.57 o'clock, President Roose Mrs. Ansley Wilcox, He shook hands in silence with several members of the Cabinet, who met him at the carriage and slowly walked to the prazza and into the house, In a smaller library on the north side of the house were most of the members of the McKinley family who were pres ent and a few of their closest friends @ Mrs. McKinley did not come down stairs during the services. With Mrs Barber, Miss Barber, Mrs. Hobart and Dr. Rixey, she sat at the head of the stairs leading into the main hall Al the doors were open and she could hear every word of the minister's earnest prayer, and the sweet strains of the choir reached her as they sang the President's favorite hymn. She sat through it all, silent and pas sive. It seemed as if her great grief had exhausted her power for sufféring With a handkerchief at her eyes buried her suffering in her heart. Never moving until fore the coffin was carried out, gently chair away to her own room. President Roosevelt il ibrary rose walked past RBmnembers t she be wa ied f11i8t she ner and raised from As entered CVEryone Gravely ] ) the :.. 3 2. » thie head of the coffin Cabinet For a moment he gazed on the face of Mr McKinley. His suffused gwith tes i 1 twitched, but and his mo $ . i " Y 11 » ith a superb effort of the will he mas e re- the line of CYyes were Ars ic emotions. During th i y { the service his § tenance of his SINR forward of the toward ¢ of people | hard and the people time the body A VAST OUTPOURING. Immense Crowd in the Rain at Buflslo City Hall to See the Body. { Special. }—~Such a sutpoiring of men and women desir 18 of paying their respects to the dead as that which took place at the City Hall Sunday afternoon has seldom occurred in this country 8 As early as 5 a. m. crowds began to Rather at the points of vantage around the hall. They stood there all day, con stantly increasing in numbers and re gardless of the wind and rain which drenched them to the skin, in order that they might have a last look at the face of the dead President. Not less than 150,000 persons were massed at one tine behind the lines of police which held them in check. For hours, in double lines, two abreast. they filed past the coffin containing Mr McKinley's body. Though they went through the City Hall at the rate of from i185 to 180 a minute the stream never slackened. Late in the afternoon there were two lines, each nearly if not quite a mile long, in which were standing men and women, waiting patiently for hours. Many of them were wet through and nearly all of them were without food. A death-mask of the President's face has been made, The mask was taken Edward L. A. Pausch, of Hartford. Conn. He has modeled the features of many of the distinguished men who have died in this country in recent years. he funeral train left Buffalo at 830 a. m. Monday, arriving at Washington 0 o'clock Monday evening. At Wash- ngton the body was taken from the train to the Executive Mansion under the es- cort of a squadron of cavalry, remained under a guard of soldiers and sailors until 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, when it was taken to the rotunda of the Capitol under the same escort of cavalry, ry of the Can fh ate nthe spontanc- held at the rotunda. Tuesday evening the body was immediately taken, under military escort, followed by the funeral procession, in accordance with the pre cedent in the case of President Gorfield B10 the Baltimore and Potomac tation and placed upon the funeral train, which will leave for Canton, where the final funeral services will be committed to th charge of the citizens of Canton. under the direction of a committee to be select ed by the Mayor of that city A CHRISTIAN'S DEATH. Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done. While Is tis the Emergency spital 1m the gros of the Pan the attempt } McKinley put hi rest in Qcalmly awaited the work of the sur geon At that suffered no pain. His mind wa: peace, save his solicitude for hi invalid The al tranquil When gan to administer the President He nds sition, after President (rod and ior wile the hospital wa Dr Mynier be anesthetic was repeating the Lord's reached the words, cotie, Thy will be her took effect and sciousness, With lips sCene within the ‘rayer, had ‘Thy kingdom done,” when the ¢ lapsed into u his simple prayer or itted to the operation faith in a serine en implici would be well hope and fear home, this owed, at spirit of and on words Oo CVer he Was manitest Ing repeated the \ 2 fn NCATE: my God. last utterance was will be de ne Was t er had good-by McKinley and a LIFE AND WORK OF MR. McKINLEY. Career of the Late President Lawyer, Sol dier and Statesman \f.L A knows thine ie 58 a at-large from ind served man of Mas renomination Harrison, but, notwith andi 1s refusal to permit the use of his name. i182 votes were cast for him for the Presidential nomination. At the national convention held at St. Louis in June. 1806, Major McKinley was made the Presidential candidate of the Repub- lican party, receiving 06115 votes to 84%: for Thomas Reed, 603. for Matthew S, Quay, 8 for Levi P. Morton, 351; for Wiliam B. Allison and 1 for J. Donald Cameron, with 24 delegates absent. the number of votes necessary for a choice being 462. In November following Ma. jor McKinley received 7,106,100 votes to 6.502.685 for William J. Bryan, giving a plurality of 603,514, and a clear ma- jority of the popular vote of 288 753 over all opposition. In the Electoral College the vote stood 271 for McKinley to 176 for Bryan. On June 21, 1c00, the National Repub- lican Convention at Philadelphia renomi- nated Mr. McKinley for President. He received 026 votes (all the votes of the convention), On November 6, 1901, Mr. McKinley was re-elected, defeating Mr. William J. Bryan the second time. During the administration of Presi. dent McKinley the most important mat. ters that have engaged his attention have the war with Spain, beginning in April, 1 and being concluded in Au. ust of the same year; the trouble with the Filipinos, which followed the attack on the American troops ww the Filipinos in February, 1800, and which still con- tinues in : Jerultory sort of oashion) the passage of the Porto Rican + APpiyI to the use of the inhabitants of the Faland the duties collected; the passage of the Financial bill at the last session of Con. gress by which the gold standard was made secure; and the trouble in China, Wilde followed the attack of the Boxers’ eT nen cna § perm that ox On 1 ih wi dar yh x SOVOCaied 1d onvertt Cason McKinley of Preside xers China, which ‘ PRESIDENT'S BODY AT THE CAPITAL. Washington Wrapped in Gloom, Receives Him She Once Acclaimed, THE CORTEGE TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Nearly Every Doorway Along (he Lige Was Hidden Beneath Festoons of Mourning The Main Thoroughiare of the City Was as Silent and Dark as Any Street of iis Residence Section, retary Root ter-General re Hitcheo oricivou ' representing isted of Mayor Co i . John N and Carleton Spr Mrs. McKinley a of the party were dr Sixth wd treat street Cri Guarded by detadls arms of the Government, members of the { the Grand Army of t} Loval Legic Republic, of the army of the dead began at lights SIC arge of comm officers and navy, the later the thre oyYer H ] wii ered fron the great early DATE i FEARS FOR MRS. McKINLEY. When the Nerve Teesion is Over, There Are Apprebensions of Scrious Collapse, Washington (Special) has stood the ordeal following the death of band better than was expected physician, Dr. Rixey, 15 encouraged believe that she will go through the state ceremonial without collapse. A half hour which was t beside the coffin on the train was followed by a period of depression, but Dr. Rixey in duced her to sleep in the afternoon Their dread is for the future, when the nerve tension of the present ordeal is sver and when the widow is back alone in the old house at Canton, with the flood of reflection and realization that must come upon her then siramn ley 10 Sey President Left Will, Buffalo {Special ).—President McKin- ley has left a will, The instrument was executed some time before the shooting, and at no time during his final sufferings was there any wish or occasion to revise it or to frame a codicil. It leaves the bulk of his prop- erty to Mrs. McKinley. How much the estate is worth cannot be stated with ex- actness by those most familiar with the late President's business affairs, but it is believed to be a goodly sum. although not amounting to a large fortune, a A MACE Buffalo (Special). A death mask of President's face was made by Edvard L. A. Pausch, of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Pausch has in recent years modeled the features of many of the distinguished men who have died ia this country. The mask is a faithful reproduction of the ate t McKinley's features. Twenty-three Drowned. Budapest (By Cable) «Twenty-three EE Sr vray ed By: the Wieck of a ! | Was © t Rone Kulna river. near Asal, tin
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