St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-29
BUMPED HIS HEAD.
President Cleveland Meets With a
Slight Accident.


New YORK, April 25.-Despite the
fatiguing experiences of yesterday,
President Cleveland arose early this
morning. At $50 the president and
members of the cabinet took breakfast
together. At 10 O'clock, Col. George w.
Mcclellan, corporation counsel clerk,
and Comptroller Myers, who constituted
| a committee to escort the president to
| the reviewing stand, arrived, and fit
| teen minutes later the president was
| ready to depart. Carriages awaited the
| party at the Fifth avenue entrance to
| the hotel. An immense crowd was
gathered there, and tine police had
no small difficulty in keeping
| a paSSageway to the carriages.
When the president came out he was
greeted with cheers. He was the first
| to enter the carriage. After he took his
seat he put his hand to the right of his
forehead above the ear, and when he
withdrew it the hand was covered with
blood. Mr.. Cleveland, in entering the
carriage, had removed his hat, but not
bending low enough. had bumped his
head against corner of the top of the
carriage, the back having been let
down. The president, on seeing the
blood, Immediately left the carriage and
returned to the hotel. He was followed
by the cabinet and the m9mberS of the
| eScOrting committee, who were in not
little diSmay at the mishap. The
victoria which was to carry the preSi-
dent was a shabby affair, and was drive
by shabby, ordinary hack cOachmdn.
In the hotel the president was imme-
diately surrounded by the secretaries
and several of the ladies. The confusion
| on his head bled prOfusely. Arnica was
Immediately applied and doctor sent
for. In a short time DR.. Stephen Burt
arrived, examined the wound and pro-
nOuDced il not serious. PlaSterS were
applied and the blood washed away.
The president then announced himself
ready to 90 in the carriage again. The
front of the top of the vehicle had
in the meantime also been let down as
the back had been. When the presi-
dent again came out he was greeted
with cheers, long continued. He lifted
his hat to show that the wound he had
received was trifiing. Mr.. Mcclellan,
Mr.. Clark and Mir. Myers entered the
same carriage. In the next carriage
were Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle.
The last had Secretaries Smith and
Morton and Ambassador Bayard. The
party proceeded to the reviewing stand
parture caused by the presidents injury
being about twenty minutes. Secretary
of War Lamont remained with the
ladies OF the cabinet. who viewed the
parade from the windows of the Vic
tOrla hotel until II o'clock. when they
left for the presidents train in Jersey
City.
The presidential party reached the
city hall reviewing stand at IL o'clock,
but were obliged TO leave the stand just
as the head OF the column was coming
into sight, in order to catch the train at
Jersey City for Chicago. The party
walked down from the city hall through
Warren and West streets to the Penn
Sylyania ferry at the foot of COrtlandt
street. A couple of policeman at the
head of the little body of plainly dressed
men gave the only touch of official
fOrmality to the departure. Even then
no one recognized them till the party
reached the ferry entrance. President
Cleveland came first, arm-in-arm with
Perry Belmont, and showed no sign of
having been injured while entering his
carriage at theVictoria hotel. Behind the
president Secretaries Carlisle, Gresham.
Bissell, Smith and Morton walked
in double file. Two more policemen
brought up the rear. The party went on
board the boat and took seats in the
upper cabin. At the Pennsylvania sta
tiOn the party entered a special train
which was in waiting, and left for Chi
cagO at 1915 O'Clock.
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The news of
the accident to President Cleveland
created a sensation in Washington. One
of the papers published an extra. The
newsbOys flew about the streets and
corridors of the departments shouting,
'Cleveland'S accident" and for a time
there was general decentralization among
the officeholders and officeseekers.
When the real nature of the accident
was learned, thousands quieted down.
Mrs. Cleveland did not know of the in
jury to her husband until the telegraph
informed her that he was all right
again