New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-14

joys and sorrows since young manhood. he
awoke and asked for Mrs. Mckinley.
That last private meeting. with all that It
meant for both Of them, is for the stricken wife
alone With beautiful courage that seemed
to rise with the need of the hour. Mrs. McKin-
ley. though broken in health and racked almost
TO the breaking point with her overwhelming
sorrow. walked bravely to the bedside Of the
President and gave him farewell embrace and
kiss
The sense of loss to the people os Buffalo and
to the strangers within her gates is almost
overpowerng. The President came to this city
last week to lend a neighborly hand in making
the exposition a success. The assassin's bullet
which struck him down in the Temple of Music
Friday of last week a blow felt through
out the length and breadth OF the land. but 1t
perhaps more intensely felt by the people
here. Every bulletin from the sickroom has
been regarded almost as a personal message.
The favorable reports by the doctors beginning
with sunday and continuing until past mid
night on Thursday gladdened the nation. but
they filed the people of Buffalo with religious
thankfulness.
The scenes at the intersection of the streets.
beyond which the unprivileged who wanted to
get near the Milburn house tonight could not
pass constituted in themselves a wonderful
tribute TO the stricken President. testify1ng to
the supreme affection with which he was re-
garded. Men and women in every walk of life.
schooIboys with their natural boisterousness
checked, and little children without knowledge
of what the great tragedy meant. pressed
against the rope barriers and waited with mute
eloGuence for any stray news which might drift
to them from the sick room Far into the night
they waited. and the places of those who went
away were filed by others to whom sleep was
impossible When the end finally came, the ef-
feet was instantaneous. The pent up tears
coursed down the faces Of men and women alike.
There We're sobs and prayers for the stricken
wife followed by fierce condemnation for the
assassin
The walls of the vine clad Nilburn house. now
historic tonight embrace the Presidents kin
dred. stricken with the deepest grief. but with
the grief there is the soul satisfying conscious
ness that President Mckinley was magnificent
In death.
Buffalo. Sept. 13.-Tnc President is slowly
dying Secretary Cortslyou this announce
ment from the house at $50 o'clock tonight
At the same time Dr. Mynter. who had just
come from the sichroom. said there hardly
any pulse left. and the body getting cold.
although the Presidents vitality was so strong
that he might last until o'clock in the morn
ing But he might die at any moment. The ex-
tire mites are now cold with the approach OF
death.
The last sad offices about the bedside have
been said. and the President has again lapsed
into unconsciousness after brief period of
consciousness.
wss brought into the chamber and there was
affecting farewell Members of the Cabinet.
one by one. the President momentarily
Then the President softly chanted a hymn Just
before he lapsed into Inconsistencies he begged
the doctors to let him die. Every one within
the house and in the great crowd outside is
awaiting the announcement of the end
The last period of consciousness was spent
with Mrs. Mckinley at the bedside of her dying
husband She bore her affiiction with superb
fortitude.
The relatives of the dying President the men,
bers of his Cabinet and those personal friends
who are in the house took their final leave of
him. The party assembled in the main drawing
room, and one by ascended 10 the sickroom
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