The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-09-10
.PR[S|DE''|T M'K|NLEY SHOT
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introducing to him especially persons
of note who approached.
Upon the presidents left stood Mr..
Cortelyou.
1t was shortly after p. m. when
one of the throng which surrounded
the presidential party, a medium sized
man of ordinary appearance and plain
ly dressed in black, approached as if
to greet the president. Both Secre-
, tary Cortelyou and President Milburn
noticed that the mans hand was
swathed in a bandage or handker-
chief. Reports of bystanders differ
as to which hand He worked his
way amid the stream of people up to
the edge of the dais until he was with
In two feet of the president.
President Mckinley smiled. bowed
and extended his hand in that spirit
of geniality the American people so
we'll know, when suddenly the sharp
crack of a revolver rang out loud and
clear above the hum of voices, the
shutting of myriads of feet and vi.
brating waves of applause that ever
and anon swept here and there over
the aSSemDlaSe.
There was an instant of almost COM
plete silence The president stood
stock still, look of hesitancy, almost
of bewilderment on his face. Then
he retreated a step, while pallor be-
gan to steal over his features. The
multitude. only partially aware that
something serious had happened.
ir, urti
craned and all eyes turned as one to
the rostrum where a great tragedy
was being enacted.
AssaiIant Borne to the Ground.
Then came a commotion. With
the leap of tiger three men threw
themselves forward, as with one i'm
pulse, and sped toward the would-be-
assassin. Two of the men were
United States secret service men. who
were on the lookout and whose duty
1t was to guard against just such a
calamity as had here befallen the
president and the nation. The third
was bystander, negro, who had
only an instant previously grasped
in his dusl<y palm the hand of the
president. As one man the trio
hurled themselves upon the presi-
dents assalant. In twinllling he
was borne to the ground, his weapon
was wrested from his grasp and
strong arms pinioned him down.
Then the multitude which thronged
the edifice begun to come to real
{, izing scene of the awfulness of the
I scene of which they had been unwill-
4 ing witnesses.
A murmur arose, spread and swelled
to hum of confusion. then grew to a
babel of sounds and later to pande.
monium of noises.
The crowds that moment before
had stood mute and motionless as in
bewildered ignorance of the enormity
of the thing now, with a single i'm
pulse surged forward toward the stage
of the horrid drama. while a hoarse
cry swelled up from a thousand
threats and e thousand men charged
forward to lay hands upon the perpe
traitor of the dastardly crime.
Confusion Was Terrible.
For moment the confusion was
terrible. The crowd surged forward
regardless of consequences. Men
shouted and fought women screamed
and children cried. Some of those
nearest the doors fed from the edifice
In fear of stampede, while hun
dreds of others from the outside strug
gled blindly forward in the effort tc
penetrate the crowded building and
solve the mystery of excitement anG
panic which every moment grew ant
swelled within the congested interior
of the edifice.
Inside, on the slightly raised dais
was enacted within those few feverisf
moments a. tragedy so dramatic II
character. so thrilling in it's intensity
that few who looked on will ever BIZ
able to give succinct account OF wha
really did transpire Even those wht
attended the president came out of 1
with blanched faces. trembling limb:
and beating hearts, while their brain!
throbbed with a tumult of conflicting
emotions which could not be clarified
into lucid narrative of the event
as they really transpired.
OF the multitude which witnessed
or bore part in the scene of turmoil
and turbulence there was but on
mind which seemed to retain it
equilibrium, one hand which rename,
steady, one eye which gazed with III
f1inching calmness and one vote
which retained it's even tenor an
faltered not at the most critical juno
ture.
They were the mind and hand an
the eye and the voice of Presiden
Mckinley.
After the first shock of the assas
SINS shot he retreated step, then. a
the detectives leaped upon his assa
ant, he turned, walked steadily to
chair and seated himself, at the sam
time removing his hat and bowling hi
head in his hands.
In an instant Secretary Cortelyo
and President Milburn were at hi
side. His waistcoat was hurried
opened. the president meanwhile az
monishing those ah0u, him % ell.,:
calm. telling them not to be alarmed