The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-09-20


Joined In the tribute---the children
with tiny flags topped with krists Of
black crlpples on crutches and
babes held above the crowd for
sight they might never see again. It
had been the Intention to run through
Sunbury without stop, but such
were the opportunities of the towns.
people that the train pulled up for a
moment between solid lines Of peo.
pie.
sklrted the susquehanna.
In about the 80 miles from Sun.
bury to Harrisburg the route skirted
the placid Susquehanna and the vistas
Of green-clad slope and peak gave
way to broad sweeps Of rich farming
country. The rivermen were awre
Of the coming of the train. A ponder
GUS dredge halted in It's operations,
and the men lined the deck of the un-
wieldly craft. At little town across
the river the populace had emptied
upon the wharves and could be seen
straining Tor a view of the speeding
train. Further on homely farm
house had Its little porch looped with
black, and underneath were gathered
me Olu duu yOuuH VI tu6 uOubSuOiu
With sorrowing faces.
At one cross-road hundreds Of We.
hicles were drawn up. with country
people standing In them, and evident
ly some nearby town had thus sought
o point of vantange near the track.
Approaching Harrisburg, factory
hands agin lined the track. The roof
tops Of buildings were alive with peo-
pie. Flags were half-pastcd and EN-.
blems of mourning We're at every
hand. Hundreds of men and women
crowded the tops of freight cars.
Within the station the people were
banked in thousands. surging through
oil the approaching streets as far as
the eye could reach. From a huge
viaduct spanning the track countless
faces peered down into the car win.
/ dows. The tolling Of the church bells
I could be heard, and as the train en-
| tered the station the shrill notes OF a
bugle sounded taps. Despite the vigi.
lance Of the guards, women pushed
, through to the train and pleaded a.
y the window for any trifie the cars
/ might yield as a memento OF this
eventful trip. Just as the train
stopped q great choir, ranged tier or
tier on the station steps, began
Nearer My God to Thee" and ther
as the train pulled out the strains
turned to "EIy Country, 'Tis Of Thee
| Printed slips were handed to the cal
windows, giving the lines Of the two
beautiful hymns, deeply bordered II
black. A remarkable spectacle wa!
presented as the train moved acros!
the long bridge spanning the Susque
balna from Harrisburg to Allegheny
| tjn either side Of the stream, up an.
down, for miles, the banks teeme,
with legions of people. From thu
brink of the stream they were in solit
masses to the trees far In the back
ground. On the bridge itself urchin'
mad clambered into the tangle Of stee
at the sides and roof. On the sur
face of the river, in fiotilla of row
boats and yachts. hundreds NOR,
looked up at the train of death. o.
The Allegheny side another dens
crowd lined the tracks and with bare
heads peered into the catafalque car
Again ut York, the train moved TO
half a mile between avenues OF soil
humanity and windows and sousetop
alive with people. BY this time tn
sun was setting low. and in tn
throngs were hundreds of workme
With their dinner pals. Everywher
the same scenes Of human sorrow an
! reverence that had gone before wer
re-enacted.