The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-07-24
LEO LIES IN DEATH.
The Pope Breathed His Last at 400
Monday Afternoon.
s1e Was Conscious Until Near the End and
His Suffering at Times Intense. His
Condition Varying from
Agony to Coma.

Rome, July 21-Pope Leo XIII. is
dead The last flicker of life expired
at four minutes past four o'clock yes
teriay afternoon and the pontiff now
lies at rest The period of over two
weeks that Pope Leo passed in the
shadow Of death was no less wonder
fuI than his life. His splendid battle
against disease was watched the world
veTewith sympathetic admiration and
ended only after series of tremendous
efforts to conquer the weakness of his
aged frame by the marvellous will
power of his mind. The pleuro-pneu-
monia with which his holiness had
been suffering was scarcely SO respon-
SibIe for his death as that inevitable
decay OF tissue which ensues upon SO
Rad bent SO often before human ills
was bound to break at last.
Last night the emaciated and life
fe8S frame which held so brave a
spirit laid ON the bed in the vatican
beside which almost all the world has
prayed The red damask coverlet
rests lightly over the body, the cardi-
mails scarlet cape is about the Shout
ders, while on his head has been placed
the papal hood of velvet, bordered
with ermine- A white silk handker-
chief is bound about his chin and in
the hands which have blessed so many
thousands has been placed a crucifx.
So Pope Leo remained until to-day
watched by uniformed officers Of the
noble guard and rough-clad Francis
.>aH penitentiaries, who will keep
leeaseIess vigil until the burial cere-
nponies-
To-day the sacred college of cardi-
mails will assemble for the impressive
CEREMONY of officially pronouncing
aNope Geo dead After this sad func-
'fioN has been performed the body will
&e taken to the small throne room adj
1oiFjng the death chamber, where it
@llI be embalmed. The funeral cere-
nlonies will extend over nine days, the
remains f,eing removed to the cathe-
oral OF St Peters, where they will lie
an state The ultimate resting place
of the dead pUntiff will be in the mag
AEificent basilica of st. John Lateran.
Pope Leo's final moments were
marked by that same serenity and de-
vution and when he was conscious that
calm intelligence which is associated
with his Is years pontificate. His
WAS no easy death. An hour before
he died, turning to DR.. Lapponi and
his devoted valet, Pho Contra, he MUIR
INJURED: The pain suffer is most ter
o. ibie-" Yet his parting words were
o not of his physical anguish that he
suffered, but were whispered benedic-
tioAs upon the cardinals and his
nephews, who knelt at the bedside
and the last look of his almost sight
Tess eyes was towards the great ivory
s=rneifix hanging in the death chamber.
Practically an the cardinals now in
Rome, kneeling at the bedside,
" atched the passage of his soul.
Gsarlier in the day Cardinal Serafno
Vnnnutelli had impressively pro-
no.mcssi the dissolution in articulo
x1ortis
'The condition of his holiness varied
from agony To coma. Wishing to re-
Iicvee him, DIR. Mazzoni suggested that
morphine should be administered, but
Esr- Lapponi did not agree, fearing that
{ssse ttafi might be quickened