Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-10-16
LAID TO REST.
The Funeral of the Irish Statesman
Passes Ct Quietly at
Dublin.
Thousands of ~sorrowing People Pay
Their Last Tribute to the
Dead Leader.
The Procession of Mourners SURPASSED
in Numbers Anything Ever Seen
in Dublin.

LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE remains OF
Parnell arrived at Kingston at Z a. m.
There was no demonstration along the
line from London until Chester was
reached, when Populations from Liver
pool, Manchester, Preston and Newcas-
tie, all destined for Dublin, joined the
train. The parliamentary colleagues of
Mr.. Parnell, including John Redmond,
John O'Connor, Joseph Nolan, DR.. Fitz-
gerald, James O'Kelly and Henry Camp
bell were among the people that greeted
the Populations on their arrival at Holy
head where the train got in at 2 a. m. in
wet and hazy weather, that well be-
came the mournfulness of the scene.
The darkness, as the body was
borne from the train, was unre-
lieved except by a few lamps
that fickered %uncannily, throwing a
weird light over the large white wooden
case that contained the coffin. The case
was borne on the shoulders of seamen
the side of the vessel. The Parnellite
members of parliament and others
followed with uncovered heads,
and sobs that could not be suppressed
gave testimony to their grief, as the
procession filed down the double al
way into the ship. Throughout the
voyage acros the dark waters that sep
arate the two countries, some of the
Parnellites were all the time on guard
over the remains of their beloved leader.
At the Kingston pier, a multitude was
gathered to receive the remains. With
the Irish members who had followed the
body from England, the group at King
ston included nearly every parliament
tary adherent of Parnell. They all
Gathered Around the Coffin
In absolute silence unbroken even by tho
exchange of friendly greetings until af-
ter the remains had been transferred
to the carriage of the train for Dublin.
The Westland row station in Dublin
was reached at 1880 a. IN. A vast silent
crowd awaited with uncovered heads as
the train steamed into the station. When
the remains had been removed in solemn
silence from the train the coffin was
taken from the case that enveloped it
and was lifted into the hearse, the glass
panels Of which permitted a full
exposure of the coffin to public
view. The wreaths and other floral
tributes covered the top Of the hearse
and were heaped about the coffin. As
the hearse moved from the station a
body of police formed before the process
sion which, without any design or mar
shalling, appeared to fall in an orderly
line in purely extemporized fashion. As
the march progressed
~ h Crowds Grew Denser
and yet they kept clear of the line of
procession. Along the whole route to
Castle Hill the ranks of the peo-
pie occupied every inch of space. The
city hall of Dublin was reached at $50
a. H., and a dense rain came down as
the coffin was borne into the hall toward
the catafalque. At 10 o'clock the gates
we're opened and the people poured into
the interior. The body lay in state in
the council chamber, a large circular
room, heavil draped in black. The cof-
fin which rested IN a raised base in the
center of the chamber, was buried under
masses of leaves. floral crosses, Irish
harps, and other floral designs. From
10 o'clock until 2 a continuous stream of
people poured into the city hall. It is
estimated that the people who paid their
last tribute of respect to the dead leader
numbered at least 40, 1000. Nearly all
Were in the Deepest Mourning,
the men wearing a band of black Grape
interviewer with green ribbon on the
arm, and a large proportion of the
women also wearing a similar sign of
grief. The ceremony of lying in state
was intended to close at noon, but the
crowd continued so numerous that it
was thought but right not to shut out
lrishmen and 1rishwomen from an op-
portunity to gaze at the casket that en-
closed their dead, and it was already
after 2 o'clock when the doors at last
were shut upon the long continued pro-
cession. At 2:45 p. m. the funeral cor
tege started for the grave in Glasnevin
cemetery. AS the coffin passed it was
almost hidden by flowers. Every head
in the vast assemblage was uncovered.
When the procession started the rain
ceased and the sun came out. The scene
was most impressive. All windows and
house tops were packed. The procession
wendell its way by a circuitous route to
the cemetery, the circuit making it
scarcely possible to reach the cemetery
before 6 o'clock,
Perfect Order Prevailed,
although the vast line of mourners sur
passed in numbers any spectacle ever
seen in Dublin. No systematic plan
seemed to regulate the multitude, yet
some fine instinct of reverential order
prevailed everywhere, and gave the
march an aspect of drilled regularity.
It was a molly mob of well clad citizens
side by side with the ragged and poor.
Common mourning seemed to make
them all equal for the time. The Dub
lin municipal representatives and the
provincial corporations, trade societies
and other organizations, and the 10000
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