Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-10

horses at full gallop across the tri-
umphal causeway and vanished
through the Lincoln Park gate, gallop-
ing down Delaware avenue until .po-
police headquarters were reached.
Thousands left the exposition
grounds, and learning that the assas
sin had been taken 70 police head |
quarters followed there. willing to do
violent justice if the President had
died.
AS the evening came on the num-
bers grew SO that the multitudes
blocked all the streets in the vicinity
of the police headquarters. Tens of
thousands We're asking one another if
the President was still alive.
Jail Is Surrounded.
All efforts of the police to dispense
the crowds were vain and futile. The
roar of conversation of this mass of
people penetrated even to the cell
where CzolgosZ lay.
Now and then the crowd would
surge over to one of the newspaper
offices, where bulletins were posted,
and cheer wildly when the statement
was flashed out that hope was enter
tanned.
Medical Aid is Prompt.
While the crowd threatened the life
of the murderer every effort was being
made to offer scientific aid to the
| President and to bring to his bedside
the best surgeons that could be secur-
ed. DR.. E. w. Lee of ST. Louis, DR..
Storer of Chicago, and DR.. Van Peyms
of Buffalo were on the grounds and
joined the hospital staff. DR.. Matth-
ew D. Mann, DR.. Herman Mynter, and
Dr. John Parmenter were summoned
by telephone, and Drs. Harrington
and Stockton were brought to the
grounds in swift automobiles.
Carried Out on Stretcher.
The President was borne from the
Temple of Music at Ala o'clock by
Drs. Hall, Ellis and Mann, Jr., in
charge of the ambulance. The crowd
fell back when it saw the figure of the
President on the stretcher. There was
no need for the police to ask the
crowd to move back along the Court
of Fountains, and through the Mall
the crowd itself cleared pathway
crying, Keep back" Keep back"
Make way"
Colonel Chaplin of General Roe's
staff, with the mounted escort which
had accompanied President Mckinley
in his outdoor appearances since his
arrival in Buffalo, surrounded the am
, bulance, and at full gallop they whirl
ed to the hospital
Six doctors were at the President!
side within thirty seconds after ais
arrival, and the nurses had made read.
for the task of the surgeons. Outside
the hospital the police established
safety lines and the crowd fell back
= thousands remaining there for hour
and whispering questions to those VIII
q went in and out of the hospital.
i Surgeons Soon at Work.
: The President was stripped an
n placed where the surgeons might sc
j his wounds. In the room with tn
President were Mr.. Milburn and Ser
rotary Cortelyou In the hall of tn
hospital were Chairman John \
4 Scateherd of the executive committe
:. of the exposition and Secretary of Al
o riculture Wilson Melville c. Ham
J. of Cleveland was also present.
Second Wound Found Serious.
s. Then came the news of the secon
e wound and the information that tn
;, bullet had not been found, and thu
n the doctors had decided to wait for
e. consultation of surgeons before begi
le ming an operation.
At 5:32 o'clock Secretary w. wee
of the Government Board of EXPOS
ID ton Managers arrived with DR.. Rixe
IL Mrs. RiXey and Mrs. Cortelyou. The
lie had come direct from the Milbul
n home, where Mrs. Mckinley W;
T. sleeping all unconscious of what he
lie happened.
IL Officers of the army and navy. i
S, GLIDING Captain Hobson, and foreis
of diplomats, who came here for Pres
IL dents day. crowded the corridors
ne the hospital.
Id At 6 o'clock Captain Vallaly broug
the news that he had delivered Il
prisoner safely at police headquartel
- in the custody of the detectives w
u arrested him.
he Silence During Operation.
ed AS the o'clock whistles were bio
ing Mr.. Scateherd and Harry Haml
a emerged from the hospital and ask
of that the crowd move still farther ba
I'd, and preserve quiet. The request w
* obeyed instantly
he 1t was announced to the people
lis this time that the President was abe
nd to undergo the operation to find t
Mt second bullet.
al DR.. Mann performed the operate
assisted by Drs. Parmenter. Mynt
hit, and Rixey
as The crowd waited patiently
a twenty minutes when the news W
on brought out that the President h