Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-09

FRANKFORT, KY, February s.
Rain came down in sheets to-day,
while the funeral services were being
held over the body of Kentucky's dead
Democratic leader.
The morning dawned dark and
threatening, but at 9 o'clock the clouds
cleared away and the sun came out
bright and brilliant, and there was
every promise of a pleasant day.
The prospect was short-lived, how
ever, for just as the hour for the for
nation of the funeral procession ar
rived, the rain began to fall. slowly
at first, but with everincreasing rapid
ity, until shortly after the hour of
noon, when the parade was on the
march, the flood began to descend.
There were dry intervals, but after
them the water came again with in
creased viciousness, and just as the
hearse left the Capitol Hotel a heavy
shower began which continued all
through the afternoon.
The exercises at the cemetery were
conducted before a crowd much small
er than would have been the case had
the weather been pleasant, but they
were carried out to the letter, and to-
night the body of VIM. Goebel lies in
the chapel of the Frankfort cemetery
after one of the greatest funeral de-
monstrations ever seen in this State.
As soon as the weather clears suffi-
GENTLY the casket will be consigned
to the grave.
1t had been feared that trouble
might arise between the soldiers in
the Capitol grounds and Democratic
p~artisans in the line of march when
the parade passed the Capitol square,
but nothing Of the kind occurred. The
soldiers kept back on the level with
the front Of the Capitol building, and
q line of sentries was posted in front
of them to prevent them from going
near the fence on the south side Of the
ground at the time when the parade
was passing the square.
Orders had been issued on the
Democratic side as well that no COM
ments should be made by the men in
the parade as they passed the grounds
where Governor Goebel
Received His Death Wound.
The wisdom of the commanders of the
troops and that of the Democratic
leaders, added to the fact that for
twenty-four hours all the saloons had
been closed, enabled the day to pass
without any exhibition of feeling being
shown on either side.
Early in the morning the arrival OF
people to witness the funeral exercises
began, most of them in the early part
of the day coming in buggies from the
surrounding country. By the time the
early trains had arrived the crowd was
enormous Special trains came in
from Georgetown and Lexington and
other places not far from Frankfort,
but the large crowds came on the reg
ular trains from Louisville and Gin
cianati.
Fully ten thousand people were on
the streets to watch the funeral. The
body lay in state in the parlor of the
Capitol Hotel until II o'clock in the
morning, and more people viewed the
remains this morning than yesterday
afternoon and last night. At times the
jam in the doorways leading to the
parlors was too great for any one to
force a passage through. The police
force of Frankfort is not large-only
six men-and it had it's hands full.
When it was massed at a given point
the force was good enough, but when
separated it was helpless.
The crowd was remarkably we'll be-
haved, however, and there was not an
unpleasant episode connected with the
proceedings from first to last.
The procession began to form at II
o'clock on Mapping street, headed by
the city police force and members o.
the City Council, city officials, Grand
Marshal David r. Murray and his aides
Then came a long column of members
of different societies and citizens on
foot. Governor Goebel was not a mem
Der OF any secret organization, but his
father is a prominent member of the
Odd Fellows, and the local members OF
that body turned out strongly to dc
him honor. None of the societies was
in uniform.
Ia Column Moved Promptly
q the appointed time, which was the
Aour Of noon, and marching north on
Wrapping street turned west on Broad
way, which would take them past the
capitol grounds.
The rain was falling heavily as the
parade approached the grounds and ths
men were marching rapidly. The frots