Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-09-14

Buffalo, n. Y, Sept. 1i.--william
Mckinley, twenty-fifth president OF
the United States, died at 2: 10 o'clock
this morning from the effects of the
assassin's bullet. Theodore Roose
welt, with the administration of the
oath Of Office today, will begin to exer-
else the functions of president today.
The death of President Mckinley
came In the small hours of the morn
ing under circumstances Of peculiar
weirdness. For hours he had lain un
conscious. with all hope of his survi.
val abandoned. He came out OF the
stupor last evening about o'clock
and while his mind was partially clear
there occurred the last endearments
and last goodbys. In this interval of
consciousness Mrs. Mckinley was
brought into the death chamber. The
president had asked to see her. She
sat beside him and held his hand
and heard his last words of en-
couragement and comfort Then she
was led away and not again during
his living hours did she see him.
The president fully realized that his
hour had come. lie whispered feeD
ly, Nearer, my God, to Thee words
of hymn always dear to his heart
Then In faint accents he murmured:
"Goodby, goodby. II Is Gods way
His will be done" The president soon
after lapsed into Inconsistencies.
Members OF the cabinet, grief-strick
en-, were gathered in the large draw
ing room of the Milburn house. They
ascended the stairway, one after the
other, noiselessly approaching the
threshold of the chamber where the
dying man lay and gazed within
Meantime the president had lapsed
into n state of complete unconscious
ness and II was only a question of
hours, perhaps minutes, when the end
would come. BY 10 o'clock there was
no perceptible pulse. The extremi-
ties had grown cold and the rigidity of
death was fast falling upon the suf-
ferer. Physicians who remained at
his side detected only the faintest
heart beats.
Some, knowing all was over, de-
parted, while others remained because
of respect for the expiring president.
DIR. Janeway, the eminent heart
specialist, arrived shortly before
midnight and proceeded at once to
the bedside of the president. An I'm
stant glance told him that the time
had passed for slightest hope. He
turned away telling the assembled
relatives and officials that the end
was very near
At 2 o'clock DR.. Rixey was the only
physician in the death chamber. He
observed slight convulsive tremor.
The president had entered the valley
OF the shadow OF death. Word was at
once taken to the immediate relatives
who were not present to hasten for a
last look upon the president in life.
They came in groups, the women
weeping and men bowed and sobbing
in intense grief. Grouped about the
bedside at his final moment were the
only brother of the president. Abner
Mckinley, and wife; Miss Helen Nc
Kinley and Mrs Sarah Duncan, sis
ters OF the president; Mrs. Mary
Barber, niece; Miss Sarah Duncan,
niece; Lieutenant James +. McKin-
ley, William B. Duncan and John Bar
Der, nephews; +. NJ. Osborne. cousin
Secretary George b. Cortelyou. Chas.
q. Dawes, comptroller of the treas
ury. Webb Chase and William c,
Brown.
In the adjoining room were the doe
tors, Charles II. NcBurney, Eugene
Wasdin, Roswell Park. Charles J.
Stockton and Herman Mynter. II was
2:l5 o'clock. Or. Rixey placed his
ear close to the breast of the expiring
president Then he straightened up.
"The president IL dead he said.
The president passed away peace
fully as though he had fallen asleep.
Only the sobs of the mourners broke
the silence. Mr., Cortelyou passed
from the room and down the stairway.
In the large drawing room were still
assembled the members of the cab
met and officials high in the admins
tration. Cortelyou said: Gentlemen,
the president has passed away" Cor
telyou then announced to the newspa-
per men: "The president died Ut
2:15 o'clock"
All that remained was to perform