Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-09-18
"God's Will, Not Ours, Be Dore,'' Ills Dying
Words to Ills Faithful Wife Before :
lie Lost Consciousness.
A NATION WEEPS AT Hts BIER.

there assembled. The members of the
Cabinet. Senators and close friends re-
mained only few minutes. Then
with mournful tread and bowed
heads they came out in the darkness
and went away. There was not one
among them with dry eyes. and some
moaned in an agony OF grief
The announcement of the news to
those waiting below was postponed
until the members or tho family had
withdrawn. Through Secretary Cor
telyou the waiting newspaper men re-
ceived the notification. There was the
keeneSt excitement on the broad ave.
nue., but there was no semblance OF
disorder
The military guard was augmented
Immediately upon the announcement.
The waiting crowds melted away
rapidly. giving expression In unmis-
taxable terms to the great sorrow
they felt.
The rage OF the people of Buffalo
against the Presidents assassin when
they learned that the President was
dying was boundlesS. Thousands sur
rounded the Jail. and the entire police
iorce OF the city and two regiments
or militia Were utilized to insure his
protection.
Colonel W. c. Brown described the
last scene MS follows:
DR.. RiXey held the Presidents
wrist. The patient had been uncon
sclouS for about two hours. We
watched, hardly breathing. At ex-
acty 2.11 o'clock DR.. Rixcv laid tho
Presidents hand by his side ana sojd
simply: The President is dead
w nat occurred after do not knows |
went downstairs and nnnonncad tha
Presidents death to the Cabinet"
The President breathcd his last
after q fight for life covering seven
days. In all that time. although suf-
ferinC intensely. he had manifested
magnificent courage. His soul was sus-
tanned through The dark hours by the
suDlimesL Christian serenity. From
the time when he was pierced by the
nssasSin's bullet. when he said pity
inSly, referring TO the assassin, Let
no one harm him. up to his last
night, when he voiced his resignation
to the inevitable TO his devoted wife.
every hour of suffering had been char
acterlzed by lofty Christian fortitude.
The sense OF loss to the people of
Buffalo and TO the strangers within
her gates Is almost ovcrpowerlng. The
PRESIDENT came to this city to lend q
neiShborly hand in making the expo
sition success. The assassins bullet
which struck him down in the Temple
OF Music was Il blow felt throughout
The length and breadth OF the land.
but It was perhaps more intensely felt
Dy the people here. Every bulletin
from the sickroom has been regarded
almost as personal message.
Inc scenes at the intersection OF the
streets, beyond which the unprtvi-
leGed who wanted 10 get near the NIL
Durn house could not pass. constituted
III themselves wonderful tribute TO
the stricken President. testIfying to
the supreme affection with which he
was regarded. Men and women in
every walk OF life, schoolbovs. with
their natural bolsterousncsS checked
ana littic children without knowlcdge
OF what the great tragedy meant
pressed against the rope barriers ana
waited with Wu,c cIoquencc for any
.'ray news which might drift to them
rom IN" slcS"OOm. Far into No
night they waited. ard the places OF
those who Went away were filed hy
otherS 10 whom sleep was imDoSsible
When the end finally came. the effect
was instantaneous. The pent M tears
coursed down the faces of men and
women alike. There were sobs and
prayers for the stricken wife. followed
hy herce condemnation for the assas
SD.
MRS. mcnIrLEY'S COURAGE. J