The sun., 1901-09-14
The LAST NIGHT
'osnes Where the Presilen1
Breathed His Last.

.itizens of Wilmington by the toilins
If the City Hall bell. II was toiie.
weight times. The bell on th'
phoenix engine house WAS struck
he same number OF times.
Buffalo, Sept. Alt hecane evident
|early III the evening that tn" l'reSHleil
Icouid not live until morning. lie REGAIN
led consciousness once and asked fGr III
|wfe. Sl.sS was brought into the raen
I md took an ;ittectionate farewell Of ne
husband. The scene WAS hcartlendlh2
md Mrs. Mckinley, to whe'm the Sfh
I1athies Of the whole country have het'
.xtcmdel. weak and frail as she "as
| tried to bear up under the terrible ordeal
= She did for Il time and then collapsed
I leulerly Size w:s hprnc from the Slci
| hamlpr. AZ she was leaving the iooi
/ he President is said TO have mulinur'H
softly Nearer My Gcd to Thee. Alto
! this he lnps.d into u,,consci'nrsness.
Whenever amy one would leave th
house the crowd Of newspaper cnrlcs
Ipondeiits would swarm around and aSi
-egar,lin. tie condition II the sl:ti"!
rhe neXt question would lie And wiIa
= Of Mrs. Mckinley" When the new
was ont on the bulletin boards conc,iia
,ng her goodbye there We're nlAiy W,
eyes in the crowd. Later Secr..I:.i.
/ ,ourtelyou came out 10 the anXier
group of newspaper correspondents ln.
;aid that there was absolutely no hap
Hof the President recovering. l'%rNlh&
u this the doctors had Deri atlEli,lisi"'
ing Oxygen. This was stopped about T
o'clock and it WAS announced by all ".
|'loctcrs that the ease Of the noted i,itit'@
was Eopcless. The bulletins which Wei.
ssued did not contain Il ray of hoIa.
Z They announced that the President WI
Unconscious and that his body WAS s. I
|ting cols- At midnight his pulse c"ult
not be felt and this gave rise to the st"l'.
that he was dead
Dr. .IarcMay. the noted heart special
list, arrived shortly before midnight an.
went into consultation with the othnl
|doctors. At 1.2O o'clock it was announce,
officially that if the President lived Unit
3 o'clock he would have II fighting cllahc
for recovery.
story OF the Relapse.
President Mckinley began to sin
after critical period of twelve hours
in which alarm and hope mingled !
the emotions of those who surrounde
him. The trouble began through til
failure of the digestive organs TO pei
form their functions. The necessit
for nourishment had been pressing fo
several days, and the partial failure
- artificial means had led to the adoptio
n of natural means, probably before IL
stomach was prepared. The first a.
= ministration of beef juice through Il
mouth, however, seemed to agree wit
n the patient, and the physicians wei
Bhighly gratified by the way the stol
#ach seemed to receive the food.
Dr. McBurney was especially jubilal
oyer the action of the stomach and b
fore his departure for New York dive
ION the fact that the stomach seemed
have resumed its normal function
HThe breakfast of chicken broth. toa
land coffee was spoken of by all Il
,%physicians as strong evidence OF Il
#president's marked Improvement
#was only when it became apparent til;
b the food had not agreed with the pre-
4 iucnt that the first genuine anxiety n
q pearpd The first note of alarm W;
Asoundpd in the official bulletin viii,
Sspoke of the presidents fatigue. III
q patient complained of an increasll
, & feeling of lasSitude. He had been
!. \ buoyant and cheerful that the chan!
g caused alarm. The pulse was also Il
/ normally high-126 beats to the mi
I ute. With Il temperature of 1902
n should have been thirty beats lowe
!. IThe weakness of the heart began
n Marouse serious concern.
fsS The Turn For the Worse.
n Instead of growing better. the nre!