The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-18

great multitude was silent and stood
with uncovered heads.
The same scenes were repeated as the
train passed through Allegheny. 1t is
estimated that not less than 1000 peo-
pie were at Union station and 25OC0 at
the Allegheny depot, while the crowd
that viewed the funeral train from its
entrance into PittSburg until it crossed
the city line in Allegheny was not less
than 250.000. On the face of every one
there were signs Of the deepest feeling
and mourning. There We're many chill
dren in this vast ASSEMBLY and they
seemed 10 realize with their elders the
sorrow the country was experiencing
and on their young faces there was eS-
pressed the mourning as for one whom
they had loved and lost.
Ii had been reported last night that
the train would reach Pittsburg at
o'clock and thousands of the people
had been standing in the raw, foggy at
mOsphere from o'clock. During the
passage of the train through the two
cities a section of battery 3 fired a sa-
lutte from Mount Washington. and the
city and church bells tolled.
NASH BOARDS THE TRAIN.
New Brighton, Pa, Sept 1S.-The first
section which preceded the train with
the catafalQue car attached did not
stop in Pittsburg but the latter halted
n moment to permit Governor Nash of
Ohio with his staff and General Dick,
commander of the Ohio national guard
TO board The scene from the car Win
doWs grew even more impressive after
the Allegheny river was crossed. The
river was crossed with dredges, each
thronged with humanity and the
wharves along either shore could not
be seen for the people struggling for
fOOthold upon them. The iron glrderS
of the bridges were lined with men and
boys. The public park beyond was alive
with people. Every window was filed
with faces The houses We're swathed
in black Hanging from a tall crane in
one of the factory enclosures, was an
effigy of the assassin, Czolgosz, clothed
i'm black and wearing on his breast
dark lettered card of angry impreca-
ton. In the body were a dozen knives
Leaving Allegheny the funeral train
sped through the little town of Sewick-
ley. an Outskirt of the great manu-
featuring region with Beaver, the home
of Senator Quay, nestled across the
river. Here the populace came to the
train en- masse. From this point through
to Beaver Falls the train rushed
through thriving little manufacturing
towns, Rochester. New Brighton and
Kenwood At Rochester a big Ameri-
can flag streamed from a telegraph
pole, its edges trimmed with crepe and
the church bells could be heard tOlling
dismally- Beaver Falls was reached at
9:15s central time
END OF THE TRIP.
Canton, O., Sept. 1S.-The first section
of the funeral train nrached here at II :20.
The climax of the great demonstration
of sorrow that had been observed all
the way from Pittsburg began at AL
lance IS miles from Canton. There the
half masted flags were bOrdered heavily
with black and il seemed as if every
man. woman and child was at the sta
ton A big white streamer ten feet
wide was across the main street, let
tered heavily in black, We mourn our
nations dead The church bells were
tolling dolOrously.
Then came the last half hours run
into Canton. where the body was to be
received into the arms of its own peo-
pie. Mile by mile, the approach was
marked by growing evidences of deep
affiictiOn. Flags that had Of
lowered in sorrow Farmers and cOun-
try folk generally seemed to have sus-
pended work altogether; the schools /
We're dismissed and the population We're |
ranged along the track in sorrowful /
silence The straining faces showed /
that the people took this mOurnful I
homecoming as d personal bereavement I
which had entered into each home and /
it as though fathers and mothers /
and sisters were watching for glin1pS I
of the casket that held their own loved +
one. AL Maximo. the country stores i
were heavily draped and the townspeo- I
pie packed the little station. Now the 4
train was at Lewisville, only six miles /
from Canton and soon the shops of tire /
dead presidents much loved city were /
dotted along the way. For the first time /
the sun, which had behind heavy black +
clouds. threw its rays on the gathered /
-hrongs and lighted up the sombre en- /
1lems of grief and the entry into Can /
ton was made in the bright sunshine /