Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-02-20
DENMARK MOURNS
FOR Dead KING
BODY OF CHRISTIAN Is BORNE
FROM CHURCH AT coPEN-
HAGEN TO CATHEDRAL.
CROWNED HEADS OF
EUROPE REPRESENTED
Brief Services Held-All Business in
City Ceases While Tribute Is Paid
Deceased Ruler-Last Rites to Be
Held Sunday.

church here Friday to
the cathedral at Roskilde, where it
will be buried Sunday among the
tombs of the Danish kings, who for
l 900 years have found their last rest
ing place in the ancient capital of the
&ingdom. The whole of Copenhagen
was given up to mourning. Business
End work were at standstill, while
emblems of sorrow were displayed
everywhere.
Enormous crowds of townspeople,
CARRIED in black, swelled by thousands
Of arrivals from the country districts,
thronged the square in front of the
Christiarborg church and the route
thence to the railway station from
early morning, standing patiently for
hours in order to pay a last tribute to
the dead monarch. The windows all
along the route were filed with spec
tators, who paid high prices for seats.
Most of the owners of such places of
vantage announced their intention of
devoting to charity, in memory of
King Christian, the proceeds of the
sale of seats.
Brief Service in Church.
Shortly before noon the kings of
Denmark, Greece and Norway, Queen
Alexandra, the dowager empress Of
Russia and other royal relatives of
the deceased and the representatives
of foreign sovereigns reached the
Christianborg church, where brief
service was held, at the conclusion of
which the coffin, covered with the
Danish standard, was borne high by
naval and military officers to the wait
ing hearse. Then, headed by infantry
and cavalry, simple cortege was
formed and slowly proceeded through
three and half miles of streets be-
tween the church and the railroad
station,
Immediately behind the hearse was
led King Christians favorite riding
horse. Jussuf, which will be shot, &C.
cording to the ancient Danish custom.
The procession was closed with car.
riages bearing the male members of
royal families represented at the
funeral, the women watching the de.
parture of the body from neighbor.
ing building,
The bells of all the churches were
tolled and minute-guns were fred
from the arsenal while the cortege
passed and until the coffin was placed
on the funeral train,
During the march to the railroad
station the cortege was swelled by the
army veterans and similar military
associations and the students and
other societies lining the route, which
fell in at the rear of the procession.
Affecting Scenes in Streets.
Many affecting scenes were wit.
messed in the streets. The profound
silence was broken only by the sobs
Of the women, and the momentary ex.
element caused by fainting and minor
accidents, due to the pressure of the
huge crowds.
On arrival at the station the coffin
was again lifted by naval and military
officers and placed in the funeral car
in which some Of the members of the
royal family also travelled.
On reaching Roskilde the Fourth
regiment of dragons formed the es
cort Of the coffin, which was borne to
the cathedral and placed on the cata
falque before the high altar to await
the last rites on Sunday.
This was the first time in history
that the body of Danish king has
been transferred by railroad to the
burial place. At the time Of the death
of Frederick VII, the predecessor Of
King Christian, in 1868. the use of a
railroad train for the conveyance OF
the kings body to Roskilde was not
considered sufficiently dignified.
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