The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-13

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Just as the procession started the rail-
happily ceased; the sun broke through thu
| clouds and shOne brilliantly. All th'
windows and housetOps along the line o
march were packed with people. It was
great procession, surprising In point o
numb ers anything of the kind ever wit
messed in Dublin Besides, it presented
some extraordinary features never seen IL
any other city in the world. Anywhere
else demonstration on so large a scale
| would have been conducted on a regular
plan; some organizing body appointed
| with marshals 20 guide the elements intC
an orderly sequence and 10 see TO it thai
| such bodies as were authorized to partici
pate on the occasion should be protected
on their march from the haphazard incur
sions of irregular and outside elements
! Here, however, no such systematic plan
seemed to regulate the procession; yet, the
! fne instinct of reverential order pervad
ing everywhere gave the march an aspect
of drilled irregularity.
1t was a motley mob Of well clad citizens,
side by side with the raggedest, that fol
| lowed the procession, and extended some
miles. Behind the members of the Dublin
municipality came those of the provincial
corporations, trades societies and other
organizations. Some 10000 people had
passed through the council hall during
the four hours that the body had lain in
state, and the most of these had Joined the
procession, forming into line six abreast
wherever a gap in the procession permitted
them to 60 The bands of music heading
the different societies dropped in wherever
the chance afforded. sometimes at intervals
so near that the different strains and diff
ferent keys of the different bands made
harsh discord, besides imperilling the
marching cadence which those regularly
in the procession strove to maintain. Long
strips of jaunting cars, private carriages
and every sort OF vehicle added length to
the cortege.
People began gathering in the cemetery
early in the morning, facing the wind and
showers During the long waiting
throughout the day crowd on crowd in
spected the turf lined tomb, guarded by a
single group Of police, who had difficult
task to keep them moving. The grave
which was some feet deep, had been cut
out of the artificial mound covering plot
which had long been used to inter the
poorest people. A glance into the grave
suggested that it would be necessary in
order to get down to solid foundation
for the monument to sink concrete pillars
right through the Subsoil around the
mound. BY o'clock the police became
overwhelmed by the power of the ever-in-
creasing crowd and the withdrawal of
portion of their force, who went to try to
clear a way for the funeral at the entrance
gates to the cemetery.
When the first part of the procession
reached the tower gate at O'Clock 1t was
found to be impossible to penetrate the
dense masses. In the struggle with the
on-lookers the police were OBJ iged to aban-
don the attempt to drive them back. The
surging crowd around the gate seeking to
see the cortege met the great contending
wave of others trying to enter. A scene of
great confusion enSued. The procession
for time was checked and thrown into
disarray II was decided to close the lower
gate and this was affected amid great dis
order just as the hearse reached the spot.
The hearse was then taken to the upper
gate. Here the coffin was removed and
placed upon a platform specially con-
structed for the purpose in order to en-
able those in the procession to file around
it and have full view of the bier.
A body of the Clan-na-Gael succeeded
in clearing a way to the grave and formed
a circle, within which were grouped the
lord mayor of Dublin, the civic digni-
taries, Mr.. Parnell's colleagues in parlia-
about was terrible. Darkness had set in.
The noise of shrieking women, the cries of
and the cries of men struggling
amid the crush made inaudible the voices
of the clergy reciting the ritual of the
Church of England. The first portion of
the service had been celebrated at St.
church, where the remains
rested twenty minutes while on the way
from the city hall. At the grave Rev. Mr..
Vincent of the Rotunda chapel and the
Rev. Mr.. Fry of Manchester, Officiated. |
They were obliged to cut the service short, !
as the crowd broke into the protecting
circle and overwhelmed the inner group.
Parnell was buried by moonlight. It |
was $40 when the coffin containing his !
body was removed from the hearse and |
taken into the cemetery As the bearers |
were carrying it toward the grave the |
light of a pale golden disk glittered |
through the tree tops Glasnevln cemetery. |
As the coffin was lowered into the grave !
a cleaning star shot across the sky and /
was suddenly quenched Its course seem |
ed typical of the life of the dead Irish |
leader.
Some time after, in the dead darkness,
when the crowd had thinned away, the /
more intimate friends again grouped /
themselves around the grave, deposited
Ereaths thereon and took the last view of |
.he coffin. The grave became heaped up
with the masses of floral tributes one of
which was Miss O'Shea's. This bore the
words, in Loving Memory of
Mothers Land"