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'iartyred Presidents Body
Borne to the Grave Amid
Touching Scenes.
MOURNING ON THE ROUTE
Tie Nations Official Tribute to the Dis
tinguished Dead Impressive Services
Held in the Capitol ROtunda.

Buffalo. n. Y.-The funeral Of Will
%lian Mckinley, the devoted husband
and simple American citizen, TOOK
: place at II o'clock Sunday morning III
= the house in which he died. The
8funeral of William Mckinley. Presi,
&dent of the United States. began an
& hour later and continued with all ut
8ting solemnities until Thursday
J. when both President and simple citi'
3zen was laid to rest forever in the
nfamily plot in the Canton cemetery.
After the brief funeral services at
the Milburn home the body Of Presi-
: Hdent Mckinley was conveyed to the
HCity Hall, where it lay in state for
d several hours. President Roosevelt,
- several Cabinet officials. and other dis
l, ,tinguished public men rode in the
Hfuneral procession, which included q
military and naval escort.
> A simple service took place in the
HMilburn home where the martyred
President died. A hymn was sung
=, and prayer was offered over the dead
&body. That was all. Only the imme-
&diate family and the friends and pol1tl-
= cal associates of the late President
4 were present. The scene there was
= pathetic in the extreme.
= Mrs. McKinley's condition was such
Has to cause anxiety. For the first
Htime since the death Of her husband
she gave herself up to violent weep
ling.
1t is estimated that at least 100000
men, women and children passed the
= open coffin Of President Mckinley
while it rested upon a catafalque IL
: the City Hall.
The body of President Mckinley,
= which lay in state in the rotunda OF
#the City Hall, was carried to the EX'
Exchange Street Station, escorted by the
same guard that had previously sur
rounded it. The train Of seven cars
vestibuled, was standing Oh the first
track in the New York Central train
Hshed. The observation car was the
T. last car in the train and in this the
= coffin was placed. 1t lay in the centre
: of the observation section. comprising
one half the cars length and with Win
H Hdows of plate glass from floor to roof.
On top Of the coffin. the outlines OF
which were plainly visible under the
huge American flag which draped 1t,
were crossed two sheafs Of ripened
$ grain. Flowers in wreaths and other
Hdesigns were placed around the walls
e OF the car, and the guard Of soldiers,
Msailors and marines took their places
Hround the bier.
: One crowd gathered in Exchange
street drew back in respectful silence,
Has from q carriage there emerged DR..
8Rixey, Mrs. Barber and Miss Barber
> land a frail little figure in deepest
mourning, with long crepe veil. 1t
; was the Presidents widow.
She clung to her physician and her
= sister, Mrs. Barber, for support as
she was assisted into the station and
up the steps of the car Olympia, which
= was yestibuled to the observation car
#carrying her husbands body.
! Mrs. and Miss Barber, Miss Helen
NMcKinley and Mr.. and Mrs. Abner
HMcKinley shared the private car with
1.-The Presidents widow.
Il There was no cheering when Presi-
adcnt Roosevelt drove UP to the sta
Ation, no waving of hats in the air.
aThe members OF the Cabinet in Buff
Afalo, Secretary Root, Secretary Long.
&Secretary Hitchcock, Secretary Will
son, Attorney General Knox and Post
master General Smith, occupied with
Hthe President and Private Secretary
HGeorge B. Cortelyou the compartment
Hear, Hungary.
- The passengers included Governor
#Benjamin Odell, Jr., of New York. and
8his messenger, Major General Brooke
Hand staff, General Harrison Gray Otis,
8Senator Mark Hanna, Senator Haw-
Sley, of Connecticut; Senator Fair
g banks, of Indiana; Senator Burrows,
&of Michigan, and Senator John kean,
of New Jersey.
q The funeral guard on duty around
&the bier consisted OF sailors and petty
&ofticers from the battleship Indiana
#and sergeants from the Fourteenth
&Infantry at Fort Porter and the Sew
= enty third Coast Artillery stationed at
athe Pan-American.
n One-half Of this guard Of honor was
Hon duty around the bier constantly
& with the single exception OF half
Ahour when the widow Of the President
! WAS left alone with her dead. Every
6 one in the rear end of the observation
Near withdrew after the funeral direc'
&tor, Mr.. Drullad, had removed the
&cofin lid and exposed the face Of the
- dead President
The features are natural and re-
poseful. President Mckinley looks as
T. if he had fallen into 4 peaceful sleep
SBefore the journey was ended Mrs
mckinley paid a second visit to the
bier, but remained only few minutes
She went back to her own car then
and remained there the rest of the
&day. Her grief seems less poignant
when she knows that the Presidents
body is under the same roof with her
! Her first question when sh" arose il
= the Milburn house in Buffalo in the
s morning was: when can l see the
Major" and when told she could look
upon his face that day RS. Mckinley
7became composed at Cnce.
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