Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-16
THOUSANDS SCI DEAD.
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AT the city hail. where the body lay
in state during the afternoon and night,
there was Il remarkable demonstration,
which proved how close the president
was to the hearts of the people. Ar
engagements had been made to allow the
public to view the body from the time
it arrived until o'clock. But the peo-
pie were wedged into the streets for
blocks. Two lines We're formed. They
extended literally for miles.
When o'clock came 10000 persons
already had passed and the crowds
undimished. 1t was decided to ex-
tend the time until midnight. Then
for hours longer the streets We're dense
with people and constant stream
flowed up the steps OF the broad en-
trance into the hall and passed the
bier. When the doors We're closed at
midnight it was estimated that $4,000
persons had viewed the remains, but
thousands were still in the streets.
The body will lie in the city hall until
morning. 1t will be taken to the station
by military escort tomorrow morning
and at $50 O'clock the funeral train
consisting of seven cars, will start for
Washington over the Pennsylvania rail
road Mrs Mckinley, the president, the
cabinet and relatives and friends Of the
dead president will accompany the re-
mains. Nrs. Mckinley bore up brayely
during the service at the Milburn resi-
dence and DR.. Risey, her physician
thinks she will be able to support hel
trying part in the state funeral a,
Washington.
To most of those present at the serv-
Ices at the Milburn house the dead pres
tident had been a friend and comrade, q
relationship beside which that Of presi-
| Gent seemed for the moment to sink into
| insignificance. 1t was as his friends
that they heard the two hymns sung
land the passage from the Bible read
Other scenes of the entire funeral pro
gram may follow that will have some OF
the pageantry and pomp betting the
position which, as president, he occu-
pied, but that in the Milburn house was
4 service over a simple citizen of thc
United States, and yet nothing that may
follow it in the nature of obsequies vii
he more impressive.
1t was so impressive that the people
who We're there stood silent, with some
thing Juggling at their throats and max,
ling sobs impossible. There were Mt
| sobs heard, and yet there were those
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all his life. Many eyes Were filed witt
| tears, but they We're shed softly. Will
1 the services proceeded there was n,
audible sound of grief.
| But in the faces of every one, from
4 president and cabinet ministers down t,
| soldier and servant grief of the deepes
| Kind was written too plainly to be mis-
| taken. and the tears stole silently dow
the burrows in the faces of gray -haire
| friends who had known intimately tn
man whose funeral i, was.
While they stood there around the cas-
ket and about the rooms there was no
one whose thoughts did rot go alter
rately from the bier to the fragile Won
4 ar in the hall above whom the assassin
bullet had deprived of a husband an
protector. And supported by two {
\ her relatives. one of her dearest friend
and her doctor, when 1t was all over. sh
vas led back into her room.
The service at the Milburn house be
san a few minutes after II o'clock an
it was over in about fifteen mintues
lad been the original attention to hay
this service at o'clock, and the chang
was made in this plan only Saturda
evening. There were a great many VII
would probably have been at the servic
bad it been held in the afternoon. BIT
who got notice of the change in the pla
too late to be present at the house in til
/ morning.