The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-25


Physicians were hastily summoned
10 attend the President, who had
almost Immediately been conveyed to the
Prefecture. A careful examination was
made of the wound, and the doctors de-
clared that the condition of NJ. Carnot
was hopeless.
AT THE GRAND THEATER.
The report Of the news of the assassina-
tion caused a great sensation at the Grand
Theater which was filed to the walls with
the elite of Lyons. The theater presented
brilliant scene, the handsome toilets
of the ladies being offset by the gay uni
forms of the many military officers pres
ent All were awaiting with impatience
the arrival of the President, and all were
unable to understand the delay. Suddenly
a man entered the theater crying at the
top Of his voice, "The President has been
assassinated."
Almost a panic followed this abrupt an
nouncement Women screamed and several
tainted. Many men. without waiting to
secure their hats, ran out of the building.
in order TO confirm the news. They found
all the streets leading to the palace filed
with excited throngs, and in a few minutes
they were convinced that the report of the
cowardly attempt the life of the Presi-
dent was true. Suddenly through the
throng sped a landau conveying Adrian
Dupuy, a brother of the Prime Minister,
together with Deputy Chaudey
and Prefect Rivaud, the crowd
falling away before it as 1t
dashed into the Rue de La Republique.
preceded by four mounted gendarmes. The
crowd thinking now that the report of the
assassination was untrue, and that Presi-
dent Carnot was in the carriage. shouted:
.'vfve Carnot," "vive la republique.''
The carriage was stopped and NJ. Chaudey
and M. Revaud said, in tremulous voices
Don't shout; the President has been the
victim of outrage"
Cheers were instantly turned to curses,
and many and loud were the cries for
vengeance. The landau proceeded to the
theater, where NM. Rivaud and Chaudey
went to the Presidents box. AS soon as
they were seen the whole audience arose
and. amid profound silence, NJ. Rivaud
said, in voice broken with sobs, THE
President has just been assassinated."
This announcement was received with
terrific explosion of fury, as the audience,
when the first report of the assassination
was received, though greatly excited, had
generally discredited it. The theater
sounded with shouts: "A mort / as
sassin," and cries for vengeance were, for
the moment, deafening- When silence
was, In a measure. restored NJ. Rivaud
continued: 'In the Rue de La Republique
a miscreant, under the pretext of present
ing a petition, stabbed NJ. Carnot with a
dagger NJ. Rivaud again inter-
rupted with shouts Of death to the muir
dereri Revanchel Revanche"
Waving his hand for silence NJ. Rivaud
again spoke. saying: do not make my
mission more painful. We left NJ. Carnot
In the hands of doctors. You understand
that, under these conditions, hearts
filled with sorrow, and that the proposed
performance in the Presidents honor cam
not take place"
The audience then left the building,
many proceeding at once to the Prefecture,
where they stood in the streets waiting for
any report that might be sent out, dis
e2ssng among themselves the horrible
crime that they considered had cast dis
grace on the fair fame Of the city
When the police party reached the Place
des Cordeliers it was obliged to stop while
the landau in which were General Borias,
the prefect. the Mayor and the wounded
President, escorted by a detachment of
mounted guards. on a gallop. was driven
rapidly past them and returned to the
prefecture. A second carriage. conveying
the officers of the Presidents military
household, followed close behind. An
American Press representative entered
third carriage, in which were NJ. Burdeau,
ex-Minister of Finance, and Senator Mil
laud On arrival at the prefecture General
Borias, the prefect. and the Mayor alight-
ed. President Carnot lay motionless and
unconscious on the cushions of the car
riage. His eyes were closed. His waist
coat was unbuttoned and his shirt, on
which the bright red Gordon of the Legion
of Honor was conspicuous, was covered,
on the left side, just over the heart by
large blood stain that extended to the hip.
II was impossible to tell from his appear
ance whether he were dead or alive
The crowd surged about in the vicinity
of the carriage, but the mounted guards
and the foot police held them in check,
some distance from the landau in which
the President was lying. Many were the
expressions OF pity for the President and
anger at the assassin. General Borias, the
prefect and the Mayor, assisted by a num-
Der of attendants, lifted NJ. Carnot from
the carriage and, with difficulty. carried
him as tenderly as possible to a room on
the first floor of the prefecture and laid
him on a bed DR.. Gailleton, who is Mayor
of Lyons. then examined the wound. The
following bulletin was issued at IL 80 p. m:
1.-The state OF the President of the Re-
public is alarming, but not hopeless. The
wound is in the region of the liver. The
hemorrhage which was at first copious has
now ceased
After examining the Presidents wound
all the physicians in attendance agreed
that an operation was necessary, where
upon Dr. Oller Immediately probed the
wound While this was being done NJ.
Carnot returned to consciousness and said
feebly but distinctly: How you are hurt
ing mei''
The doctors, however, continued to attend
the wound. the outward bleeding of which
had stopped. They knew that the Presi-
dents condition was extremely grave, as
they more than expected that internal
hemorrhage had commenced After NJ.
Carnot had been taken from his carriage
and placed on a bed in the prefecture no
body save the doctors and the officers Of
his military household, who accompanied
him TO Lyons, were allowed to enter the
room TO whicn he had been carried.
Shortly after midnight the Archbishop of
Lyons was summoned TO the bedside of the
dying President to administer to him the
last rites of the church. He was In the
room but short time when he emerged
and retired to an adjoining room. Here he
remained until half past II o'clock. when
he was again summoned to the Presidents
room, where he administered to him the