The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-03-09

CLINT of guns.
/ 1t was Capt. leonard, who lost
an arm at Tientsin last year,
bringing up his gallant company of
marines on guard They were in
their lounging clothes, duck trous-
ers and blue blouses, but they
meant business.
They saved from Iynching the
man who shot the President. Inch
10y inch they fought uck the crowd.
Then the man was Gained out and
out to a closed coach. In a jiffy
President Mckinley was taken to
the Emergency Hospital on the
grounds near the west gate. The
blue-gowned nurses had him in hand
in a moment. He was quietly un-
dressed and laid on cot. Then
, the physicians began to arrive.
I'm the Surgeons Hands.
/ The President was lying in a
small room in the rear of the hos
/ pital. He was bleeding confusely.
! There was wound on his breast,
another down on the left side of
the abdomen, an inch and a half to
the left of the mcdian line. =
The surgeons placed the Presi-
dent on the operating table and
ether was administered. DR. Mann.
| assisted by his son, then began
probbing. 1t was a pitiful little
scene in the operating room, wit
. messed only by the World represen-
tatives.
The President lay inert under
the glare OF the electric lamps His
h'eathing was very rapid.
Sometimes he groaned slightly,
scmestimes as if in anguish.
But the surgeons worked or
speedily and quickly. At last DR..
Mann held up something in his
hands.
The bullet, he said quietly.
1T took quite 45 minutes before
! the effects of the ether began to
wear away. Two nurses had deftly
wrapped the President in a blanket
"A hospital orderly was bathing
his head with ice water
The form on the table seemed
so shrunken: it was no longer the
portley figure of the man who had
been so central in all yesterdays
doings.
Moved to Milburn Home.
Slowly the ether worked itself
away and the doctors decided that
it would be better to move their
patient to Mr.. Milburn's home, l.
06S Delaware avenue, where the
Presidential party had been stop
ping.
"A big electric ambulance rum
bled up, ablaze with lights.
Into Il big automobile were piled
hospital cot and the necessary ap-
pliances for modern surgical sick
room.
Two nurses climbed in and were
whirled at once over to Mr.. Mil
burns.
They were slower with the Pres
ident. He was all wrapped in blank
cts and his face was covered. Mer-
ciful Inconsistencies still held his
brain.
"Tenderly the physicians them
selves put him in the ambulance,
and DR.. Mann climbed behind with
d hospital steward.
"On the way from the hospital to
the house it was found necessary to
give the President two hypodemic
injections, one of brandy and one of
strychnine. He was suffering great
pain. Much of it, however, was
from the wound in the chest, which
is OF only superficial nature.
Suffered Intense Agony.
The stretcher on which the
President lay was lifted from the
ambulance with the greatest care,
but it was evident that he suffered
inense tagony every time he was
| moved. He groaned loudly and al
most continually and his drawn f.a-
lures gave evidence of his suffering.
He was lying on his right side,
with his hand under his head
With his left hand he reached up
and brushed back from his fore
head towel that had been bound
bound around his head. DR.. Park
replaced the bandage and the litter
was carried into the house. The
President was carried into room
on the north side of the house, one
of suite extending across the west
end of the two s:ory frame dwell
ing house.
Outside thronged the crowd, 81