The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-07
LONDON PLUNGED
INTO MOURNING
British Grief-stricken Over
the Terrible Tragedy.
ALL HAD HIGH REGARD
FOR THE PRESIDENT
Americans There Thrown Into
a Panic by the News.

London, Sept. 6.-The news of the
attempt upon the life of President Nc
Kinley spread slowly in London. The
first ticker reports were discredited-
Then, with the confirmation and gen
eral dissemination of the news, arose
a far-reaching feeling of sorrow and in
digratiOn which, wherever Americans
were gathered, gained almost the pro
portions of a panic, accompanied Dy
fevcrish anxiety for further details
The thousands of Americans now in
London were mostly at the theatres
when the news arrived, and, returning
to their hotels, found anxious groups
of Englishmen and Americans discuss
ing what without distinction of race,
is regarded as a national calamity.
London's telephones, usually silent at
night, tingled with impatient inquiries
addressed to newspapers and American
correspondents in hopes OF securing a
denial of the report
The announcement of the attempted
assassination was received too late Tor
extra editions of the papers to an
nounce the news to the mass of Eng
lish people, and they will not learn I'M
Ill they take up their morning papers
of the attempt to kill the president.
A representative of the Associated
Press conveyed the intelligence to j
w. Mackay, Thomas Ochiltree, c L.
Pullman. ]. w. Gates and many others,
all of whom desired to express their
unspcakable Indignation at the coward
" act, the deepest sympathy with Mr.
Mckinley and hopes for his recovery
! Added to this personal patriotic senti-
ment was the dread that whatever the
outcome of the outrage on the presi-
dent it would, perhaps, react fatally
upon Mrs. Mckinley.
Comparatively few Englfshmen heard
the news today. but all these ex-
pressed horror and sympathy as gen
uine as if il had been the king instead
of the president. The latter's kindly
personality, his friendship for England
and his kindly message of coincidence
upon the occasion of Queen Victoria S
death, were all called UP in voices as
low and WOe-stricken as those of any
purely American gathering. c. L. Pull
/ man, recalling conversation with
I President Mckinley a few weeks ago
/ said to the Associated Press reporter
J I had been telling the president Of
! my experiences in Russia, where
found it easier to get to the car thar
to him. Mr.. Mckinley said he believed
/ it would fall to the lot of some occu-
pant of the White House before many
years had passed to control the des-
| tInies of North and South America.
The lord mayor Of London was in
formed of the attempt upon the pres
1denUs life by an Associated Press rep
resentative and expressed the creates
| grief and emotion. He said:
Il shall call a meeting of the alder
men tomorrow, formally to express t.
| Mrs. Mckinley and the American PEG
pie the horror and grief felt at the at
tempt Personally the news comes t
me with the greatest possible shock
and 1 am sure that every citizen o
LONDON will jOir. me in expressing feel
ings of sorrow at the terrible calamity
Mr.. and Mrs. Nat c. Goodwin AM
other Americans. who were to hav
dined at the Carleton tonight cancele,
their engagement on hearing the new
and all the orchestras ceased playing
Crowds surrounded the bulletin boards