The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-18

there was a dense throng, and the remains
were received by large delegations OF army
and naval officers. There the soldiers and
seamen carried the casket from the hearse
TO the observation car, placed in the second
section of the funeral train The casket
was placed on standards draped with the
national colors 1t was covered with floral
emblems No less than twenty cars were
required for the transportation or the
Tomorrow still another train will carry
to Canton a large party OF senator's ana
representatives and others prominent IN
national life. The three sections into
which the funeral train was divided left
at ten-minute intervals. First was tram
of eight cars, carrying forty newspaper
men and a number of government onclaIS
and other well-knOwn persons.
The second section was the presloehlidl
train proper, made up OF practically the
same seven cars which made the trip from
Buffalo. The car Olympia was assigned TO
Mrs Mckinley, while the car Edgemere'
which came next, was occupied by the
President and his Cabinet Behind IN order
came the sleepers Naples and Belgravia,
the dining car Waldorf and combination
car. On this train were the Following pas
sengers: Mrs. Mckinley and maid, Mr..
and Mrs Abner Mckinley, Mr. and Mrs.
A ]. Duncan, Miss Helen Mckinley, mrs
NJ. c. Barber, Miss Barber, Mr.. John Bar
Lieutenant James Mckinley, Miss Sarah
Duncan, Captain and Mrs. Lafayette
McWiliams. William Duncan, Frank
Stafford. Dr. and Mrs. Rixey, Charles c..
Dawes and Mrs. Dawes, Col. G. +. Mock.
Col. w. c. Brown, Major Charles T. Mil
Ter, Burt Miller, Miss Mckenzie and MISS
Hunt, (nurses); Mrs. Henry Matthews, /.
G. Schen and wife; Mrs. Rand Mrs. j. A
Porter, the President, Secretary Root, At
torney General Knox, Postmaster General
and Mrs. Smith, Secretary Long, Secretary
and Mrs. Hitchcock, Secretary and Miss
| Wilson, Secretary and Mrs. COrtelyou,
Assistant Secretary Hill assistant SeerS-
| c. Latta, n. p. Webster. John G. Milburn,
| John Scatcherd, Conrad Diehl Harry Ham
Hanna and Secretary Dover, Senators Fair
| banks, Burrows and Kean, Representative
| Alexander, Gen. Michael V. Sheridan. Col.
! Leonard, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, Ell
| Terrence, representing the G. a. r., and
| the bodyguard consisting OF two officers
and sixteen men.
The third section of the train was de-
voted entirely to the accommodation of the
| army and navy officers. There We're Gen
erals Brooke. Otis and Gillespie, Admiral
| Dewey and Rear Admirals Crowninshield.
| O'Neill, Bradford, Melville, Bowles and
| Farquahr, General Haywood cOmmandant
| of marines, and a number of Junior officers
of the army and navy. Lieutenant General
| Miles is to take passage on this train at
| some intermediate point between here and
Canton, and Governor Nash and two of his
| staff are TO join ii at Pittsburg.
President ROOSeVelt'S arrival at the train
occurred a 1850, and was unmarked by in
| cident. His brOther-in-law, Captain COwles,
| 1t was just before o'clock when Mrs.
| Mckinley was driven TO the station. Fear
| ing the firing effect of the long walk from
| the carriage entrance to the car set apart
| for her, next to the head of the train, a
! rolling chair had been provided for her.
| She declined this, however, and walked
with surprising frmness to her place, as
| sisted by Abner Mckinley and DIR. Rixey.
| 1t was $40 o'clock when this section
| steamed away in the darkness, the first
| section having preceded it ten minutes.
| The observation car bearing the remains
was flooded with light. Through it's crys-
| tai sides could be seen the beautifully
| draped casket with its mass of rare bios.
| SONS, so arranged that even as the train
| swept through the night the people in the
country il passed through might gaze OF
| the sight of the casket with a soldier
| standing grimly at the head and a sailor
carrying his cutlaSS upon his shoulder, al
| the foot. a guard of soldiers and sailors
| occupied the platforms and between them
| at the rear was a mammoth wreath six
/ feet in diameter of rare orchids and
| laurelS.
Ten minutes later the third sec ION Of the
| train bearing the army and navy officers
| sped away and the national capital had
| performed its part in the funeral cere
|