Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1901-09-27
FIN TR IBIJ1'Es 2 I'D.
REMAINS OF THE MARTYRED
PRESIDENT LAID At REST
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Services Consist Of a Brief Grafton,
Prayers by the Ministers and Sing.
Ing by a Quartette-eody Placed In
a Vault Awaiting Final lnterment.
Mrs. Mckinley Unable to Attend the
Ceremonies. '&-~.
Canton, O., Sept. 20:-With majestic
+ ]olemnity, surrounded by his country
men and his townspeople, in the pres
ence of the president of the United
States, the cabinet, justices of the SUI
preme court, senators and representa-
"tives in congress, the heads Of the
military and naval establishments, the
course of people who had known and
loved him. all that is mortal of the
third president to fall by an assas-
SINS bullet was committed to the
grave. It was spectacle Of mournful
grandeur. Canton ceased to be
town and swelled to the proportions of
great city. From every city and
hamlet in Ohio, from the, remote cor
ners of the South and from the East
and West, the human tide flowed into
the town until 100000 people were
within It's gates, here to pay their last
tribute to the fallen chief.
The final scenes at the First Meth
odist church, where the service was
held, and at the beautiful West Lawn
cemetery, where the body was con-
fined to a vault, were simple and i'm
pressive. The service at the church
consisted of a brief Grafton, prayers
by the ministers of three denomina-
tons and singing by quartette. The
body was then taken to West Lawn
cemetery and placed in receiving
vault, pending the time it shall be laid
TO- rest beside the dead children who
were laid to rest years ago. The fu-
neral procession was very imposing
and included not only the representa-
tives of the army and navy of the
United States but the entire military
strength of the state of Ohio, and hun
dreds of civic, fraternal and other or
CARNATIONS. It was two miles long. !
Mrs. Mckinley Too Weak to Attend.
One of the most pathetic features
of the day was the absence Of Mrs.
Mckinley from the funeral service at
the church and cemetery when the
body Of her husband was laid.to rest.
Since the shock of the shooting, then
Of death and through the ordeal of
state ceremonies, she had borne up
bravely. But there was a limit to
human endurance and when the final
day came it found her too weak to
pass through the trials of the cere-
monies. Through the open door of her
room she heard the prayer of the
minister as the body was borne out
of the house. After that DR.. Rixey
remained close by her side, and al:
though the full force Of the calamity
had come upon her it was believed
by those about her that there was a
providentia! mercy in her tears, as
they gave some relief to the anguish
of the heart within.
The line of the funeral march from
the church to the cemetery was about
mile and half in length. The route
was crowded with spectators the en-
tire distance. A double line of SOL
diers extended from the doors of the
church to the gates of the cemetery.
1t was exactly four minutes after 4
when the funeral car bore the remains
Of the dead president through the
gateway to his last resting place.
Twenty minutes after that time the
brief services at the vault were over
and the members of the family and
distinguished men of the nation who
had come SO far" to do him honor had
passed through the gates on their
homeward way. One hour and forty
minutes after the hearse had entered
the cemetery the place was clear and
the dead president was resting alone
under the watchful care of the men
of the regular army. A sentry's meas
ured tread resounded from the cement
walk before the vault, another kept
vigil on the grassy slope above and at
the head and at the foot of the casket
stood armed men. Before the door.
which was, not closed, was pitched
the tent Of the guard, and there it will
remain until the doors are closed.
Sentries will then guard the vault
every hour of the day and night until
the body has been borne to it's final
resting place.
RAPIDLY IMPROVING.