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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
CARN0T.
Victim of an Assassin's Dagger on
Street in LYONS,

ldSG ulSnG Dy CeSare Giovanni SantO, an
Italian Anarchist. He died at 12.45 this
morning.
The President was visiting Lyons in
connection with the International ex.
hibition. Upon his arrival he was ten.
dered reception at the Prefecture, after
which he attended the exhibition. After
spending some time there he proceeded
to the Palais de Commerce, where ban
quet was given in his honor At 9.25
O'Clock he started for the theater, where
a gala performance was be given because
of his presence in the city.
Several carriages were in the procession
the first one being occupied by the Pres
ldent. M. Carnots carriage was driven
slowly along in front of the Palais de
Commerce, and then turned into Rue
de la Republique, still following the ia
cade of the Palace. When half way
down the street, which was lined with
enthusiastic crowds of people who were
loudly cheering, man rushed out of the
crowd and sprang upon the step of the
Presidents landau.
just at this moment NJ. Carnot was
waving his right hand and saluting with
his hat in his left, in response to the
cheering crowd. The people close to the
carriage saw that the man on the step
had knife in his hand. The blade
flashed brightly in the glare of the cleo
trlc lights as the assassin's arm descend
ed. President CafDot was seen to fall
back in his seat, his face deathly pale.
NJ. Rivaud, Prefect of Lyons, who was
seated beside NJ. Carnot, Immediately
struck the assassin a blow full in the
face and knocked him down from the
step. Instantly cries of
lie President est assasslne!"
Mort la assassin"
were heard on every side, and the crowd
in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to
enormous proportions, every member of
1T seemingly intent upon killing the as
sassln. He was grasped by q dozen
hands, and his life would.have then and
there paid the forfeit of his crime had it
not been for several sergeants de vile,
who seized him and attempted to draw
him away.
This was found to be impossible, as
the infuriated populace were determined
to lynch the man, and the efforts of the
sergeants availed nothing beyond saving
him from instant death. Blows were
rained on his face and head over the
shoulders of the police, who now
had received re-inforcements. At last
the police succeeded in drying the howl
ing mob back foot or so, but to get the
captive through the crowd was a physic-
al impossibility.
News of the attempted murder had
spread with lightning like rapidity, and
mounted guards were sent to the aid of
the struggling policemen. With drawn
sabres the guard rode down into the
swirling crowd, needless of whom their
horses trampled. The crowd slowly
gave way, and at last the center
was reached. Then Gordon was form
ed around the ten almost exhausted po-
licemen and their captive, and the march
to the station began. Even thus sur
rounded, the prisoner was not safe, for
men in the crowd made frantic endeav-
ors to reach him. The guards repelled
these attacks with the fiat of their
swords, at the same time keeping watch
full eyes upon the crowd to prevent the
prisoner from being shot. Maledictions
were hurled upon the assassin, and nev-
er before has such wild indignation
against human being been seen in this
city.
In the meantime physicians were has
tily summoned to attend the President,
who almost Immediately had been CON
veyed to the prefecture. After examin-
ing the wound all the physicians in at
tendance agreed that an operation was
necessary, whereupon DR.. Ollier imme-
diately probed the wound. While this
was being done NJ Carnot came to his
senses but said feebly, but distinctly:
"How you are hurting me-"
The doctors, however, continued to
attend the wound, the outward bleeding
Of which had stopped. They knew,
though, that the Presidents condition |
was extremely grave, as they more than |
internal hemorrhage had be- |
gun. After NJ. Carnot had been taken |
from his carriage and placed upon a bed |
in the Prefecture, nobody but the doc |
tors and the officers of his military |
who had accompanied HIM to |
Lyons, were allowed to enter the room.
Shortly after midnight the Archbishop |
)f Lyons was summoned to the bedside |
If the dying President to administer the |
asst rites of the church. He was in the |
Dom but a short time when he emerged |
Ind retired to the adjoining room. Here
lie remained until 1890, when he was
lgain summoned to the Presidents |
'oom, where he administered to him the /
M. Carnot remained con-
cious to the last. He realized that his
ife was rapidly ebbing, and twice he
aid: "Je m'envais."
Doctor Poncet leaned over the bed on
which the President was lying and said
o him:
Your friends are here, Monsieur lie
NJ. Carnot replied: 81 am grateful for
heir presence" and in less than MIN
Ite he gasped for breath, there was a
Onvulsive shuddering of his body, and
he President of France was dead.
When announcement of the assassina-
ion was made at the theatre the audi
nee became greatly enraged, and this
) the feeling throughout France. Edi-
Orially the New Y FORK Press, from which
1e take the above, says: Americans
ave special reason to sorrow because of
he loss that has befallen France. 1t is
impossible to regard with indifference
hat brave and generous people whose
eets, whose armies and whose treas
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