Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-02-14
EASTERN NEWS.
FUNERAL 0bSEQUIES OF TIE
GREAT COMMANDER.
Mrs. Eancock's Parting Look at Her
Husbands Face.
TEARS FELL FAST FROM HER OVER
FLOWING EYES.
An Immense Concourse Of Soldiers and
Citizens Assembled.
the LAST SAD RITES AT
TRINITY CHURCH.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENTINEL.l

General cocks kunefbI Oere'
monies.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-This morning DR.
Janeway reported that Mrs. Hancock had
passed a restless night, but seemed better
at daybreak.
Between z and 8 o'clock the guards Of
honor drew up In front of the house. Then
came q detachment OF 200 soldiers from
the forts, and drew up behind them. In
the meantime the widow, accompanied by
Mrs. Lieutenant Griswold and Miss Bou.
vier, entered the room 10 which the hero
lay, and took q parting look at his face
Mrs. Hancock's grief was pitiful. She
kissed his forehead, while tears fell fast
from her overlooking eyes. Then she sank
into Q chair, and would have fallen to the
floor had not kindly hands come to her as
sistance. The coffin lid was then put in
its place, and the laurel wreath brought
to this city by the Loyal Legion was laid
upon it. Six soldiers. bearing a black
cloth covered bier, came into the room
and placing the coffin upon it, bore the
body out of the house. The detachment
of troops drawn up outside then moved
down the winding path TO the
steamer Chester A. Arthur, which wGs
to receive the party. Mrs. Hancock, on
the advice OF her friends, did not leave her
home. Miss Bowler remained with her.
II was precisely 8 O'Clock when the first
gun, fred at Castle William. doomed out
over the bay, announcing that the boat
was ready to leave her dock. The body
had been placed in the cabin. Near it sat
the mourners and q few officers. On the
decks were gathered officers and soldiers.
A moment later the Chester A. Arthur
steamed out into the stream and steered
for the New York shore. The fog by this
time had lifted sufficiently to give those on
board the steamer the first view they had
Of the harbor. The passage across was go
short hat but few vessels were met. At 8
o'clock the coffin. which had rested for a
few minutes at the barge Office, was lifted
from the trestle by eight soldiers. who car
ried 1t to q hearse with four horses at
tached, which stood in waiting on the
plaza. Four companies of the Fifth
Artillery viewed the coffin. and were
drawn up in line or the street, while
the pall.bearers stood with uncovered
heads as the coffin passed. All along
Broadway from Trinity Church to the
barge Office policeman were placed, number
ing about 800. At an early hour the peo-
pie had began to gather ON the streets
through which the procession would pass.
but the rain evidently had its effect, and
the crowd grew slowly, while all who could
find shelter sought such enclosures as
doorwsys and awnings might afford. The
decorations were few and far between, con.
sisting chiefly Of flags. After a flag had
been wrapped around the coffin the troops
broke into q column of companies, and
prepared for q march to the church. The
pail bearers entered carriages and followed
the military. A squad of police cleared
the way. After the hearse came a long line
OF carriages with the family and friends, and
representatives from the New York Com
msndery of the Military Order of Loyal
Legion. Society Of the Army OF the Pota.
mac, Phil Kesrney Post No. 8, Washington
Post, Rice Post and the Winfield Scot
Hancock Post. all under command Of Gen.
eral Lloyd, of Aspinwall. The crowd had
by this time enormously increased, and
along the street and up Broadway the PEG.
pie stood in place seven or eight deep. The
route had been changed, and il was nearly
10 O'Clock when the march began in the
order above described. There was nc
music, and only the footballs OF the police
and military as they fell upon the pave.
ment broke the impressive silence, though
from far away across the water came the
booming Of minute guns. 1t was precisely
10 o'clock when Trinity Church was
reached by the carriages. Trinity Church
bore no traces OF mourning, save o white
cross OF the back ground, which rested
upon the pulpit. Various floral gifts were
t~astefully arranged at the altar rail, and
the interstices in the reading desk were
filled with small floral designs. When
the procession reached the church Rev.
Arthur Hill aud Rev. Auktill met it al
the door of the church and preceded the
oasket, and it was borna up the aisle fol.
lowed by the pail. bearers. The caske,
was borne by eight soldiers. On the
caskes was General Hancock's sword, its
golden scabbard and his chspeau. Fol-
lowing the pail bearers came Lieutenant
Griffin and his wife, who was dressed in
deep mourning, and who led her four.
y~ear-old daughter by the hand. With
him was Russell Hancock, grandson of The
dead General. The casket was deposited
on Q catafalque on the front Of the altar,
The choir chanted lord, Let Me Know
My End" After which Rev. Goodwin,
OF Governors Island, read the lesson. and
the services were concluded by the readinp
OF the Lords Prayer by Rev. Morgan
Dix. The procession reformed, marching
down the aisle to the main entrance
where the casket was once more placed in
the hearse.
After the services the funeral corteet
returned in the same order AZ before r.
the Barge office. where the steamer Osser
was In waiting TO convey the funeral party
to jersey City. where a special train wa,
waiting to convey the party to Norristowp
Promptly at 1850 the train drew ont 81
the station.
Eleven Men Drowned.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. l3.-A special tc
she Record says: During the dense fos
yesterday the Austrian bark Kraljeyika
from Marseilles. France. struck ON the Bar
negat shoals. The life-saving.crew Of Rar
nesat Station went 10 her assistance. wber
,neir boat was swamped and shree mer
drowned. The crew Of the bark fearine
: the life guards would be unable to saw