Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-09-19
WAS pEc0NCILED TO HIS CpUEL FATE
Mrs. Mckinley Goes Through the Heart
Trying Leave-Taking With Bravery
and FOrtitude.

William Mckinley, twenty-fifth pres
home of John D. Milburn in Buffalo,
N. Y. at 2:15 o'clock Saturday morning,
from the effects of an assassin's bullet.
Theodore Roosevelt, twentysixth
president of the United States, succeed
ed to that exalted Office under the con-
stitutiOn and laws of the country, and
with the administration of the oath Of
office Saturday began the exercise of
the functions of president.
In these statements are embraced the
consummation of an awful tragedy and
the historic event by which the entire
administration of government is
changed and a new administration
comes into being.
But for the moment the transfer of
the government is forgotten in the
great sorrow which has pefallen the
nation in the passing of President Nc
Kinley, soldier, statesman, president,
devoted husband and friend, he was be-
loved by all who knew him.
The death of President Mckinley
came in the small hours of the morn
ing, under circumstances of peculiar
Wierdness. For hours he had lain UNI
consciously with all hope of his survi-
va, abandoned. AS early as o'clock
Friday night the doctors had pro-
nounced him dying man, and soon
thereafter the rigors of approaching
death began to creep uron him. The
administration of powerful stimulantS
was maintained until Z o'clock, but
with no effect
1t was seen that the end was near at
hand, and those nearest and dearest to
the stricken president were summoned
for the offices of the last farewell. He
came out of a stupor about O'clock
and while his mind was partially clear
there occurred the last endaarmentS
the last submission of the sufferer to
the will of the Almighty the last muir
INJURED expressions from his dying lips,
and the last good-byes.
Last Moments with Wife.
In this interval Of consciousness Mrs.
Mckinley was brought into the death
chamber. The president had asked to
see her. She came and sat beside him,
held his hand and heard from him his
fort. Then she was led away, and not
again during his living hours did she
see him.
The president himself fully realized
that his hour had come, and his mind
turned to his Maker. He whispered
feebly, Nearer my God to thee" the
words of a hymn always dear to his
heart. Then in faint accents, he MUIR
INJURED:
Good bye all; od-bye: it's Gods
way. His will be done; not ours''
With this sublime display of Christ
ian fortitude, the president soon after
laEsed into Inconsistencies
The members of the cabinet, grief
stricken, were gathered in the large
drawing room of the Milburn house.
The time had come when they, too
were to look upon the president for the
last time in life.
They assembled the stairway, one after
the other, noiselessly approaching the
threshold of the chamber where the
dying man lay and gazed within.
| Those who came first turned back ap-
| palled and overwhelmed, and did not
| pass within the chamber. Secretary
! Wilson remained below, unwilling to
| have imprinted on his memory the pic
ture of his expiring chief Secretary
Long, who arrived on a late train, Went
at once to the chamber and passed di-
| rectly to the bedside of the president,
grasping the hand that was already
clammy with approaching death.
| Meantime, the president had lapsed
into a state of complete unconscious
| ness, and it was
| Only n Question of Hours,
| perhaps minutes, when the end would
come. BY 10 o'clock there was no per-
| ceptible pulse. The eXtremities had
| grown cold, and the rgidity of death
was fast falling upon the sufferer.
The physicians who remained at his
side, detected only the faintest heart
beats. Some Of them, knowing that all
was over. departed, while others re-
manned, not because there was any fur
Their need for their ministrations. but
because of respect for the expiring pres
ident. DR.. Janemay, the eminent heart
specialist, who had been summoned
from New York, arrived shortly before
midnight and proceeded at once to the
bedside of the president. An instant
glance told him the time had passed for
the slightest hope. He turned awav
telling the assembled relatives and of.
| 6cialS that tho end 0,or,,