Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-04-18
VANCE IS AT REST !
His Remains Borne
TO Riverside.
AN IMMENSE CONCnUusE
OF PEOPLE.
THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTES
OF RESPECT.
THE FUNERAL. ATTENDED nv
PROMINENT ME<

To the tolling Of bells and amid a gen
cra suspension OF business, the remain.
o. Icbulon Baird Vance, the beloved anC
loving son OF Buncombc and greatest o.
all North Caroliniars, were CONSIGNED
to their last resting place today. In
Riverside cemetery they lie, borne thithct
surrounded by men whom he had led
in war, and whose dearest friend he was
in peace, aud followed bv hundreds
whose hearts were Saddcucd by this
great calamity that has belallen the
Old North State. There in the family
plat, overlooking the beautiful French
Broad river, the noble Senator sleeps the
sleep OF the Just, to await the sounding
OF the trump and to hear the final iudr
ment, "Well done, good and faithful ser
want" Buncombe county and North
Carolina lay their flowers and their
hearts love at his tomb and mourn the
death of man whose place in their af
cctions none can fill.
The Congressional train CONVEYING
he remains of the late Senator Ichulop
Is. Vance 10 their last resting place at
Ashcville arrived in III" city at 5:2S this
morning and was placed under the fol-
lowing squad of the Rough and Ready
Guards; Capt. J. NJ, Gudgcr, G. NJ.
Williams, A. + Walton, l.. II. Mcrrimon,
!. NJ. Smith, ]. NJ. Green and |. Y. Baird.
The train consisted of a baggage car.
coach. two vc.tibued PuIlmans and the
X. x ID. S officers car No. 100, and was
in charge OF Capt. |. A. Frazier rhe
train was drawn by engine 105 with
Engineer p. ID. Roueche and Fireman
Aleck Blair in the cab. The run was
made from Salisbury on a slow schedule
and the locomotive bell tolled as the
towns and villages along the route were
passed. Stops were ma de at Statcsyille,
hickory, Morganton and Old Fort, and
an opportunity was given the assembled
multitudcs to pass through the funeral
car and view the floral tributes and the
casket containing the loved remains.
In the center of the baggage car which
was tastcfulv drapcd in mourning was
the casket, The air was heavy with the
sweet odors from the numerous and OK
qustively wrought flower pieces. A
wreath OF white lilies and curling
branches OF palm lay upon hctaskct lid
Among he offerings were cross from
MIR. and Mrs J. S. Carr, bouquets of
roses from Vice President and Mrs
Stevenson, wreaths from the ladies of
Morganton, a box Of palms and lilies
and handsome cross from the ladies OF
Hickory with card bearing the inscrip
ton, "ln remembrance of our love and
in token of our griei;" a broken column
entwined with wreaths, a cross four feet
high, surmounted by pure white dove,
from friends in Washi gton.
Local committees from Salisbury.
Charlotte and Winston occupied coach
100. The Senate committee were in the
lsmenc Pullman, the House committee
and friends ot the dear deceased in the
Iampco Pullman, while the Vance fam
lily had the exclusive privileges of the
private car of the X. a. ID. officials.
When the Congressional delegation an
peared the oaken case was uncovered
and massive coffin heavily paucllcd and
drapcd i'll black was lifted thcrerom by
a squad OF the Rough and Ready Guards
and handed by them to the following
Judge !. II. Merrimon, W.
II. fenland, ]. l.. Mckee, e S. Powell,
J. IL. Mcdowell, Maj. w. II. Malone, |.
L, Rankin, Hon. I. ID. Johnston and
ID. Brcvard.
The caskct was borne to the station
gate ana placed in the hearsc with the
following escort:
Senators Ransom, North Carolina;
Gray, Delaware; Blackburn, Kentucky;
Chandler, New Hampshire. Dubois,
Iowa; George, Mississippi; Representa-.
tivcs Ino. s. Henderson, North Carolina;
Black, Illinois; E. V. Brookshire, Indiana
Strong. Ohio; Daniels, New York; Craw
ford, North Carolina; Alexander; North
Carolina Secretary Vim. X. Cox, North
Carolina; Capt, Arthur Barnes, North
Carolina, special messenger of the Com
mittce on Commerce; Gov. Elias Carr,
Secretary of State Octavius Coke, State
Treasurer Tate, Attorney General Frank
!. Osborne, Auditor, X. Nj. Furman,
Justice A. {. Avery OF the Supreme court,
Chairman Wilson OF the Railroad Com
Clerk OF the Supreme Court
rhos. 5, kenan, EX-Gov. Thos. !. lar
Wis, Mr.. Richard II, Battle. Joscphus
Daniels Green c. Goodloc, Washington
]. Green and L. J. Hale, Fay
cttevile, the Asheviic citizens commit
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