Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-18

Westinghouse Air Brake company
were at the track and at East Pitts
burg were several thousand people.
The train had now practically entered
the suburbs Of Pittsburg. that city OF
muscle and Drawn and the Industrial
workers We're strung along the track
in solid lines.
At Bessemer, the huge stacks of the
| Carnegie steel plant were pouring forth
dense volumes Of smoke and flame,
and under this black canopy the toll
ers gathered In dense throngs, standing
mutely with uncovered heads. Just be-
| yond, the great mills of Braddock gave
forth another multitude Of grimy work
men, and TO the left across the river.
| where is located that other great hive
| Of industry, Homestead, the wharyes
were lined with men ard women.
AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT.
Entering Pittsburg wonderfully inn
| pressiye sight was presented, Along
both sides Of the track for some miles
were solid walls of humanity In some
places the people stood twenty deep
while the entertainments were black
with them. On the top Of every freight
car was a human hedge. The over
hanging bridges bent beneath their
burden, The roofs Of houses We're lined.
All stood with uncovered heads while
the bells of all the churches were toll
Ing.
II was Just one minute before 0
o'clock when the first section OF the flu
neral train bearing the body of Presi-
dent Mckinley arrived In sight of the
Union station. This train carried Theo-
dore Roosevelt members Of the cabl-
net ana other government officials. Ten
minutes ahead Of II pilot engine and
baggage car were sent out over the
Fort Wayne road. The first section
came through the station at the rate
of about 25 miles an hour. None of
those who were on the train were visi-
bic and most Of the blinds were drawn.
The second section, or funeral train.
was late. and aid not reach the station
until 9S5 o'clock. When It came into
view, many Of the watchers placed
coins on the rails TO have the train run
over them, There We're hundreds Of
these souvenirs.
As the train passed the Fourteenth
and Eighteenth regiments OF the ma
tional guard they presented arms and
the great multitude was silent and
stood with uncovered heads. The same
scenes were repeated as the train
passed Through Allegheny.
deo0e PEOPLE AT STATION
Ii ~ estimated that not less than TO-
900 people were az Union station aud
5000 at the Allegheny depot while the
crowd that viewed the funeral train
from its entrance into Pittsburg until
1t crossed the city line in Allegheny.
was not less than 250,000 In the face
OF every one there were signs OF deem
est feeling and mourning. There were
many children in this vast assembly
and they seemed TO realize with
their elders the sorrow the ma
ton was experiencing aud on their
young faces too was expressed the
mourning as for one whom they had
loved and lost.
IL had been reported last night that
the train would reach Plttsburg at Z
o'clock and thousands OF people had
been standing In the raw, foggy atmos-
phere from 8 o'clock.
During the passage of the train
through the two cities. a section of
Lattery b, fired a salute from Mount
washington and the city church bells
tolled.
GOV MAST BOARDS TRAIN.
New Brighton, Pa, ept.lS.-The first
section which preceded the train with
the catafalque car attached did not
stop In Pittsburg. but the latter halted
moment TO permit Gov. Nash. Of Ohio.
with his stan, and Gen. Dick. com.
mander of the Ohio national guard TO
board the train. The scene from the
car windows grew even more impress
siye after the Allegheny river was
crossed. The river was covered with
dredges, each thronged with humanity
ana the wharves along either shore
could not be seen for the people strug-
gnng Tor foothold upon them. The |
iron girders OF the bridge were hung
WIN men and boys The public park |
beyond was alive with people. Every |
window was filled with faces. The |
houses We're swathed In black. Hang |
ing IRON tall crane in one Of the fac |
Tory enclosures was an effigy of the |
assassin Czolgosz and wearing ON his |
breast a dark lettered card OF angry |
impreeation. In the body were a dozen |
knives. '"
Leaving Allegheny the funeral train
speu thiough the little town OF Sewiok-
,es' an outsklrt OF the great metropoli- |
eau .ts'oh with Denver. the home of |
,'eili'vr quay nestled across the river.
49, 'he nupulace came TO the train en-
,nssse, from this point through 10
,,.ensI feils the train rushed through /
p tnltslhs ht.le manufacturing towns
~. o0n p, new Brighton and Kenwood.
streamed from a telegraph mole i,s
edges trimmed with creme ana ,ha
church bells could be heard ,oll,ns ais
mally Beaver Falls was reached a,
s.s5, central time. ~
CLIMAX OF A GREAT DEAioNsrp
TION.
Canton, Ohio. Sept. ls.-The frs, Ga,
iiop OF the fnneal train reached Canton
~ ll:z0 The climax Of great demon-
strauon OF sorrow that had been az.
served all the way from Pittsburg he.
gan at Alliance eighteen miles nom
canton. There the halfmasted fags
we're oordered heavily with black. ano
I scented as II every man. woman and
mia was al the station. A big white
'treamer, ten feet wide, was across IN,
nam street lettered heavily in black.
We Mourn Our Nations Dead" The
'hurch bells were iolling dolerously.
~" '""hV ih' last hhlI hours run |
nto canton, where the body was 10 be
e.ceiNed INTO the arms OF its own PEG
pc. Ane by mile, the approach was
marked by growing evidences of dae,
PERSONAL affection. Flags that had az.
en- waved Mckinley welcome were now
on cred IN sorrow. The schools were
dismissed and the entire population
we're ranged along the track I'm eor-
owful silence. The strainlne facee
hoWed that the people took this
homecoming az personal be.
pavement. which had entered into each
iome. and u was az though fathers ana
Mothers and sisters were watching for
glimpse o. the casket that held their
wn loved one.
AT Maxine, the country stores were
eavily drared and the townspeople
acked the little station. Now IN,