The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-07
GLOOM IS SENTINEL At
The WHITE HOUSE TODAY
News Of the Attempted Assassination Spreads SOr-
row Over the National Capital
Men in Public Life DumbfOunded by the Tragi =. ut
Manifestations of Grief.
ii IASHINGTON. SEPT. {

the
frequent
jbbng
disposition withhold full
gloom profound sorrow
spread over the city for President McEneys delightful personality had
endeared him the citizens of Washington from the f class
in degree that rarely has has been . eq4 fl
The stunned and they could respond and fully
comprehend the extent OF the great disaster that had fallen the
thr people gather quar-
e2lof tn city around the newspaper bulletin boards
The telephone the parayzcd and
the calls the Offices and the officials who might
be have knowledge of the details OF the shooting that the
operators overwhelmed
reporter Of Associated carried White
House the first bulletin announcing the shooting of the pres
dent The executive mansion reached about 425 and at
policeman paced
and down under the pO usual but his nd
assistant secrety Pruden who has been in charge Of tho White
House. having left his Office for the day had his ubordinate
The telegraph watchmen the doors the policeman
guard outside and the faithful co0red Uncle Jerry the
only persons about the mansion.
Washing robust health and excellent spirits and that he
bad az HectOnate farewell recalled also Mckinley
later When he left here he accompanied by Mrs Mckinley
rotary CorteyOu, Dr. Rzey and Mrs Melinley's
dbursn officer both the White House arrived together
shortly after o'clock and assumed charge the executive mansion Ma
jor Puien had passed through similar when President
field shot and Colonel Crooks service went back beyond the Lincoln
of this kind since came into the White House.
Such public the called during evening
United States senator TT w Blair Assistant ' S HL of tL
department Captain Towner assistant commissioner Indian affairs and
the Of Secretary Hitchcock Senators
Quay There also calls from representatives of several of the g
of shooting White House for
three hours after its when Colonel Montgomery the chief
teOu Buffalo that surgical operation the president
and chat so far everything favorable"
Later he information of the completion of the and
followed that statement with the other giving private information
the presidents condition and his removal Mr. Mbu residence
The force the White House the presidents
the business his office his home in Canton the majority of the
with which he has had do have been prepared in WASHINGTON and for
him by officials here cheerful nd spirited.
of day the news of the great
calamity arrived and the executive departments had generally
tied themselves of their workmen and
and returned at once to the state department He waited for
official EaiOu of the and copy
the bulletin the physicians through Secretary Coelyou that he
acqunt officially governments
facts of the shooting He then drew which viii be
United States embassy legation and throughout
d world directing Them to acquant the governments which are
accredited of the facts These ne embodied in condensation of the ply
In the department Mr. Hacket the acting had
quilted building speedily by Captain Cow the ing
head Of the navigation bureau and he Immediately himself
necessary emergency
At Buffalo in the exposition grounds the splendid
shape Captain Leonard and
5is force viii be made immediately aTlable if is desired by the
about the president that guard
At the department General Gillespie chief
ON leave He also had ttng tI Ili t Re- ha VINO Is away
an hour before J g b d p 9G ne mad not been gone hiatt
Immediately the
commanding the department of the giving informa-
tOn available IL order them they
nown to him through the dispatches. sdvices
rgrlary slow in reaching those officials
be officially informed
A. CONFER
lie also teegraphed Major sinmond the engineer officer
Buffalo asking
Conferences held between Secretary
IN reference which
6elled q take
Both of these officials General Gillespie
petey overwhelmed by the sad but they their coposure
and were fully prepared to call They dispatched
inquiry Buffalo and each sent his secretary word
Of the shooting of the president that they Of
direction either Secretary Root
addition representing the 1avv the United States
wen represented Buffalo neas Niagara and with
thus he
o call that be made him.
Gillespie finally
Of the telephone tar he
of the forces his telegraphed nm