Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-09-26
RESTS IN THE TOMB.
President McKinley's Body Borne to
the Vault by Friends.

the Vault by Friends.
Canton, o., Sept. 20.-With majestic
solemnity, surrounded by his country
men and his townspeople, in the pres
ence of the president of the United
United States supreme court, SEN
ators and representatives in con-
gress, the heads of the military and
naval ablishments, the governors
of states, and a great concourse Of
people who had known and loved him,
all that is mortal of the third presi-
dent to fall by the ASA ssin's bullet,
was committed to the grave. It was
a. spectacle of mournful grandeur.
Canton ceased to be town and
swelled to the proportion of great
city. From every city and hamlet
in Ohio, from the remote corners of
the south, and from the east and
west, the human tide flowed into the
town until 100000 people were with
in it's gates, here to pay their last
tribute to the fallen chief.
The Procession.
The funeral procession was very
imposing and included not only the
representatives of army and navy of
the United States, but the entire mil
itary strength of the state of Ohio
and hundreds of civic, fraternal and
other organizations. 1t was two
miles long, and one of the most pa
thetic features of the day was the
absence of Mrs. Mckinley from the
funeral services at the church and
cemetery when the body of her hus-
band was laid to rest
At the Cemetery.
It was exactly four minutes after
four when the funeral car bore the re-
mains of the dead president through
the gateway of his last resting place.
Twenty minutes after that time the
brief services at the vault were over,
the members of the family and distin-
guished 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 40 minutes after
the hearse had entered the cemetery
the place was clear and the dead presi-
dent was resting alone under the
watchfuI care of the men of the regu-
lar army. Sentries will guard the vault
every hour of the day and night until
the body has been borne to it's final
resting place. @-
The roadway in the cemetery had
been strewn with sweet pea blossoms,
the offering of the school children of
Nashville, Tenn, and no tribute of love
that was seen during the funeral exer-
cises more amply fulfilled its mission
or more completely carried its mes
sage of affection.
The Last Resting Place.
Nature has been kind in selecting the
last resting place for President Nc
Kinley. Westlawn cemetery is on a
high knoll, overlooking the peaceful
valley, with the busy little city of Can
ton laid out below. If it were not for
an intervening church spire,. one
might get from this elevation q
glimpse OF the Mckinley home. Here,
looking out on his native city and his
native state, the body of William Nc
Kinley is Laid to rest. Just inside the
stately entrance stands the gray stone
vault, where for time the casket will
repose. It's dreary exterior was re-
ieved Thursday by great masses, OF
flowers, banked all about until the
gray walls were shut out from view.
But in due time it will be taken from
the vault and committed to the little
plotSof ground lying further on. This
is the Mckinley lot and here lie his
father, whose name he bore, the moth
er he guarded so tender1y in life, his
brother James. his sister Anna. and his
two children. And when that time
comes stately shaft of granite will
arise above the grave, telling of the
civic virtues, the pure life and the mar
tyred death of William Mckinley.
MAGNIFICENT Offering of Flowers.
The collection of flowers was prob
ably the most beautiful ever seen in
the United States. The conserva-
tories of the country had been de-
nuded to supply them. By the direc-
ton of the monarchs of Europe, the
South American, rulers, the gov
errors of the British colonies in Aus
tralia and Canada, the emperor of
Japan, from the four quarters of the
earth in fact, came the directions to
adorn the bier of Mckinley with
flowers whose fragrance might be
symbolical of the sweetness and pur-
ity of the ended life. But these
tributes from foreign countries were
buried beneath the floral tributes OF
McKinley's countrymen. There were
tons and tons of them and list OF
those who sent them would be almost
complete roster of those prominent
in the official, commercial and social
life of the United States.
End of the Tragedy.
The end Of this third tragedy of az.
sassinat ton has come. The pomp and
ceremony attending the burial Of Z
president Of the United States is now
of the past. The administration OF
the new chief magistrate has begun.
At seven o'clock Thursday night Pres.
tdent Roosevelt and the members OF
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