Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-09-20
THOUSANDS WATCH
FUNERAL TRAIN PASS
Part of the Journey to Canton
Described.
SCENES ALONG THE ROUTE

Miners Leave the Shafts, Workers the
Steel Mills, Mountaineers the steep
Slopes, and With Uncovered Heads,
Pay Homage to the Honored Dead.
PITTsBURG, Sept. 18-(On Board Flu
neral Train). The train bearing the
body of the martyred president from
Washington to Canton reached Harris
burg shortly after midnight, and after
leaving that place it ran more slowly
and daylight was dawning as it arrived
at Altoona, the foot of the eastern slope
of the Alleghenies, but through the
seml-darkness the forms of many peo-
pie could be seen strung along the track
without the depot A vast throng, num-
bering 5000 or 1000 people, surged up
to the train. Many must have been up
all night and others waited for hours,
as the train was originally scheduled to
reach that point at $3.50 a. M.
Extra engines were coupled on here
and the train was pulled laboriously up
the mountains. The morning was raw,
foggy and cherries. Noun taineers with
axes on their shoulders came down from
the steep slopes TO pay their homage
with uncovered heads.
Passing the summit at Cresson the
descent began. Half the population of
Johnstown, the first of the great steel
manufacturing center through which
the train was now to pass on it's way to
the martyred presidents home, was at
the track and a company of local militia
stood drawn up at attention. Men,
women and children all were there.
Miners with lamps in their caps had
rushed forth from the tunnels at the
trains approach.
Kneeling Women Weep.
The steel mills along the Connemaugh
river were emptied. These were men
who felt that their prosperity was due
to the system for which the dead states
man stood and their loss seemed of q
personal character. Four women with
uplifted hands were noticed on their
knees and handkerchiefs were at the
lips of others, and from the smoke-cov-
cred city came the sound of the church
bells, clashing out the universal sorrow.
The train slowed down so that the
people might the better see the impress
sive spectacle at the rear of the train
within the observation car, the elevated
flag covered casket, with it's burden of
flowers, and the two armed sentries on
guard at the head and foot, and outside
on the platform a soldier with his bayo-
netted gun and sailor with drawn cut
lass, both at "salute." They might
have been carved out of stone so mo-
tionless they stood.
Further on the train passed a string
of coke ovens, the tenders at the mouths
of the glowing furnaces with their hats
in their hands.
At Jeanette there were 1000 or more
glassworkers with their families.
At Pitcairn, the end of the railroad
division. the train crews and engines
were changed and the railroad men
were out in force.
Industrial Workers In Solid Lines.
At Wilmerding the employees of the
Westinghouse Airbrake company were
at the track, and at East PIttsburg,
where is located the largest electrical
plants in the world, were several thou
sand people. The train had now prac-
tically entered the suburbs of Pittsburg,
that city of Drawn and muscle, which
has Just passed through the convulsion
of a great strike, and the industrial
workers were strung along the track in
solid lines.
At Bessemer the huge stacks of the
Carnegie steel plant were pouring forth
dense volumes of smoke and flame, and
under this black canopy the toilers
gathered in dense throngs, standing
mutely with uncovered heads. just be-
yond, the great mills of Braddock gave
forth another multitude of grimy work.
men and to the left, across the river,
where is located that other great hive
of industry, Homestead, the wharves
were lined with men and women.
Entering Pittsburg a wonderfully inn
pressive sight was presented. Along
both sides of the track for miles were
solid walls of humanity. In some places
the people stood 20 deep, while the en-
bankments were black with them. On
the top of every freight car was a hp-
man hedge. The overhanging bridges
bent beneath their burden. The roofs
of houses were lined and thousands of
people stood with uncovered heads.
Placed Coins on Track.
When the train came into view many
of the watchers placed coins on the rails
to have 1t run over them and there were
hundreds of these souvenirs.
AS the train passed the Fourteenth
and Eighteenth regiments National
guard presented arms.
The same scenes were repeated as the
train passed through Allegheny. 1t is
estimated that not less than so, 900 peo-
ple were at the union station and $4,000
at the Allegheny depot, while the crowd
that viewed the funeral train with its en-
trance into Pittsburg until it crossed
the city line in Allegheny was not less
than $50, 200. In the face of every one
there was signs of deepest feeling and
mourning.
There were many children in this
vast assembly and they seemed to real
ize with their elders the sorrow the ma.
ton was experiencing, and in their
young faces, too, was expressed the
mourning as for one they had loved and
lost.
1t had been reported last night that
the train would reach Pittsburg at Z
o'clock and thousands of people had
been standing in the raw foggy atmos-
phere from o'clock.
During the passage of the train
through the two cities q section Of bat
terry B fred salute from Mount Wash
ington and the city and church bells
tolled.
Arrested After Twelve Years.
FRESNO, Gal, Sept. 18.-Deputy Sher
if Terrell of Richmond, Madison coun-
ty, KY, has taken charge of 7. w.
Green of OIevis, who is wanted for a
homicide committed in Madison county,
KY, 12 years ago. Terrell and his pris-