Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press (Newspaper) - September 14, 1901, Winnipeg, Manitoba Manitoba vol 29 Winnipeg saturday september 14, 1906 no. Phi. Intr Nam mini ii a a a a a a. Ii a a a a i i resident Mckinle y is dead people of the United states in mourning for the third chief magistrate of their nation whose life has been ended by an assassins Bullet gods will be done Atter at a weary night of watching the bedside the president passed away at 2.15 this morning. 1 j Mynter. Who had just Corno from the Bick room said there was hardly a j Puree left and the body wan growing j cold although the president s vitality i was so Strong Chat he might last in i til 2 of clock in the morning. But he i might die at any moment. The extremities Ane now cold w4th the approach of death. The last sad office about the bedside have been said anti the president has lapsed into unconsciousness after a Brief period. Iwo main unchanged and death May come by the Assassin a Bullet w Hen he said in one minute or not for an hour or i i tingly referring to his Assassin. Him Mara l a Farewell embrace and kiss. The feeling in Buffalo. A sense of loss of the people o 0 35 p. . Mynter who has 11 07 p. . My blimey said it teas possible the president might lives a a Rad hours. He is scarcely breath j acing the circulation Bas ceased in his i not extremities and they Are cold. Of course of the presidents illness. The j general feeling that the presidents Hoar were numbered no Man Narn ii in Quot up to to Ane sense or loss or me people of _ seemed to be Conur med. At 0.38 o clock night when he voiced his resignation f Buffalo and to the strangers within when uie report came that the Phy. <0 the inevitable to his devoted wife j her Gates is almost overpowering. The simians had been hastily summoned every hour of suffering has been Char ged by lofty Christian fortitude. Word of c petulance his palier president came to this City last week that ail the indications were that to lend a neighbourly hand in making lha pre Dent would not a a a a a a a a a a paint nor frown born i the expos lion a Success. The assess people began to throng the streets and gather at the Points where bulletins i ired his the Phy cd Tenor j in a Bullet which struck him Down in Vivere displayed by the Buffalo news 11 12 p. . Mann has just added a the president is pulse less and a dying. He Midnight to May we an e relatives of the dying just. Left the House says the president1 president the members of his Cabinet tans and nurse who were comparative strangers to Bim one week ago after the first Day in his sick room loved him with a reverence that words cannot describe. The Temple of music Friday of last papers. Week was a length and breadth of the land but it main Street was packed with blow Felt throughout the an throng for a distance of two or three Miles. Everyone was eager to hear disproved the bad news conical perhaps More intensely Felt by i Ned in the 5.35 bulletin. Continua the people Here. Every bulletin from Tion was soon forthcoming for at b.3> the ski room has been regarded Ai 0 clock it was announced that the most As a personal message. The tar j it a a Ltd Ltd a Quot it respond to the Oil his last hour was with his de voted life partner his dying hymn a a nearer my god to Oracle reports by the doctors begin Seine affecting scenes in Millburn mansion those present during the final hours cause of the collapse. Hasty summons for vice president Roosevelt who was Hunting in Northern wilds will be sworn in at once. Intense excitement around police Headquarters thousands threat ened the life of Szolc Oszy military ready. 4 president s physicians report that he has Only slightly improved since the last bulletin. The Puie and the temperature remain the tame As Ai that hour. 5 Brown just hastened to the Telegraph office and dispatched 1 Telegram. He said there has been a Range for the worse. The presidents rendition is very very bad. president s physicians his condition is grave at this hour. K 58 suffering from extreme Pios Ira Kos. Oxygen is being Given Ile reloads to stimulation but poorly false 125 respiration 40. Dent does not respond to the oxygen. And his physicians have announced that unless he does respond to stimulation it is Only a matter of a Short time. 7.23�?the president is unconscious. The end is but a Short time away. 7 40 a. president became unconscious at 6 40, and now at 7 40 is barely alive. Gen. His physicians said that unless be did respond k would be Only a mat Ding with sunday and continuing until ter a sol it time before he died. As past Midnight on thursday Gladden soon As it became evident Taal the i cd Tbs nation but it filled the people president was going to suffer another i i a a a lapse i at Buffalo with religious thankfulness. I the scenes at the intersection of the j i streets beyond which the unprivileged j t who wanted to get near the Milburn i House to night could not a amp a constr a �T�4 a a a a a a a a a 444 a a a 4 a William Mckinley a 1 a i a >4 i a a a 4 4 4 4 a 4 4 4 4 4 4 a i 4 4 born at Niles. Ohio 1813. Enlisted As private 1851. Mustered out As Brevet major i860, admitted to the bar 1867. Elected prosecuting attorney 1859. Married 1871. Elected to Congress. 1876. Member of ways and Means committee 1880. Chairman of ways and Means committee 1880. Mckinley Tariff enacted 1800. Gerrymandered out of Congress 1890. Elected governor of Ohio 1801. Re elected governor 1893. Elected president in ,. Re elected president 1900. Shot dts in sept. 6, 10o1. Died sept. 14, 1901, i 4 a a a a a 444 444 444 44� j tuned in themselves a wonderful tribute to the stricken president. Testifying to the supreme affection which he was regarded men and women in every walk of life school boys with their natural boisterous Ness checked and Little children without knowledge of what the great tragedy meant pressed again hers and waited with mute eloquence for any stray news which might Drift messengers Wens dispatched in every direction for the consulting physicians. Friend pro int the House already contained a number of the president s re Alives. Among these were Abner Mckinley his brother and miss Helen Mckinley Bis sister. Other relatives of the family were mrs. Duncan mrs Barber and miss Mary Barber. Some of the More intimate friends of the family present were mrs. Hanna colonel and airs. Myron t. Herrick sex Secretary Day and secretaries Wilson and Hitchcock senator Hanna did not arrive at the House until some minutes before six o clock. John g. Milburn met him at the Comer and informed him of the president s bad turn. Hanna gave an exclamation of grief and Ais face took on a look of in ult Ere Bio pain As he hurried toward the House. Or. Mann responding to a hurry Cai reached the House at 5 of clock. From that tame until the president died the streets at the intersection of West ferry Street and Delaware Avenue were tilled with messengers hurrying to and fro newspaper correspondents policemen and details of soldiers from the 14th regular infantry. Milit see aes. As night came on the scene was dramatic in the extreme. West ferry Street had been roped off a Block away from Delaware Avenue and facing the Milburn House which is the second House from the Corner Are three election Booths Coniam a Telegraph operators Ana two or three goo Quot sized tied tents used As Headquarters for the newspaper men. Back of this Row Are the soldiers tents. The Point of interest of course was the Milburn House. No one woo went into or came from that House escaped the attention of the Small army of newspaper men. The rope bar when anyone walked away from the Bouse which contained the stricken prescient he would be immediately surrounded by a clamorous throng who would insist upon knowing what or. A 4 4 4 4 4 7.50�?under the effects of stimulants the president has revived at 7.30 and called for mrs. Mckinley. She is with him now. Is slowly dying the approach of death and those personal friends who Are in is already evident Ai the body is get the House taking their Lynal leave of Ting cold. The president May lat until 2 a i to them from the sick room. Far into the night they waited and the places was transpiring inside the House. I of those who went away were filled by Mcburney wheeled up in an Automo a others to whom sleep was unwelcome. Horn the end Fame. When the end finally bile at a of clock to the House to join to a consultation. Ail the other Phy a were inside intently watching ame the effect for any favourable or unfavourable 8 p. Twenty minutes More to Vive was the announcement from the Milburn House at 8 p. In. 8.30�?Secretary Cortelyou and mrs. Or. My meter says however him. The party is assembled in the rn., j drawing room and one by one they Are to the sick room. The there is hardly any pulse to be scene is a painful one and the lie Nee is broken Only by sobs. In the streets _ an Awe stricken crowd await the Corn 10.30�?the situation has developed ing of death. Although the end May come at any i ascending time Felt. The last two hours of his life were moments almost of grandeur. With exhaustion my pain be numbing h s wag Jansta Iraneous. The pent up tears change in the president s condition. Sense he finally closed his eyes 4 lamed Down the face9 of men and Harry Hamlin a Friend of the Mckim women alike. There were sobs and unconsciousness and then As if reluctant to leave the wide of the one into one of Mere waiting for the announcement of the president s death. Mckinley have been w Ith the president for some time. An announcement from the House at 8.30 stated that the president is in extremes. End of the tragedy i 8.30-Rev. Or. C. N. Wilson of Tona i ians were Wanda formerly pastor of the presi Ani dents Church at Canton reached Mil earned the president has another j Burn House shortly after 8 and de Pell and it is feared cannot Nian ded admission. 10 45 p. or Otvos on Delaware Avenue near it he mansion grows larger and the police and military sentries have their hands full in preserving the lines. At 3.08 p. M Stiny sum Mot face finking the phys d and from what president is dying. To physicians have so announced to life near him. tas been cd to ii Brown say a to dying. 9 27 p. pulse has left the presidents extremities and tie May Lee until Midnight. Consciousness i seems to have finally left. In his most i recent conscious moment the presi presidents family Dent comforted mrs. Mckinley. Summoned to the bedside. _ there is no Hope. 9 30 p. Knox and senator Chauncey Depew Nave scene in Buffalo during the inning h Yurt of i re eld at Mckinley a his j ight Joi life ills pathetic words to i Friend. Buffalo sept. special to the free pres it a the tragedy of the new 10 5 p. the rooms in the rear Century culminated this morning at of the Milburn House hitherto dark j 2 16 of clock when i Biden Mckin ened have just been blatantly lighted., away in the presence of his wife his brother and sister near relatives members of the Cabinet and a a a friends. Ii. Last words w ire to mrs. awful suspend Mckinley at 9 10 of clo a. They were the relatives and do Stan keys at 9.30 said that ail Hope of the president s recovery had been aban prayers for the stricken followed by done. A it a Mynter one of the Conli to has shared Joys Ani sorrows Perce Cut detonation for the Assassin suiting physicians said at ten o clock a the Walis of the Vine Clad Milburn that the pulsation had ceased in the. , president s extremities and that the House now historic to night embrace. _ end could not be far off. There was no the presidents kindled stricken web the crowds either at the the deepest grief but with the grief Milburn House or Down in the business there is the soul Gratifying consciousness that president Mckinley was magnificent even in death. Current that Lane crowds had sur. Rounded the police Assad quarters where weakness of the heart. Caol gosh is confined an i were ready president Mckinley suffered a re it a make trouble and that the local regiments were under orders at their lapse at 5.3u of clock in the afternoon armoires prepared for any emergency. Sinkin there was no trouble Ai police head there is much activity in that part of Tho mansion. 19 55 p continues gushed visitors Are still gathered in the main drawing room awaiting the announcement of the end. Section of the City. Czi it Goss Throat my. At nine of clock the Rumor dreams and this was followed by a quarters. At 11.30 the thrilling but spell which quickly convinced the Doc no unexpected announcement a j k made that the i evident was dead. I tors thai the pres a at would be in an in credibly Short time the news fore morning. Weakness of the heart spread throughout tile City and it was generally believed. It turned out to was the direct cause of the relapse an inquiry Over the Tele and them arav.,.4 by the re ply of from Fuyii of til functions. Doctors. Burn that the presi Slomach to perform los Dent Lajb still alive but sinking and that his death was expected Al any Park Rixey and g has just come j 0 toe door at 6.21 and announced the resident still alive. Just been admitted to the Horn. 10.59�?the president is alone with his physicians and nurses. His extent a ties have Long been cold and for Over 1 two hours he has been unconscious. A Goa trill not our a Don,.&Quot boo Perelr. Stockton were with the president when minute. He it an to fail. Every expedient _ the streets of Buffalo Are filled with a a a a s it ulate the a act on of the presidents last words. Surging masses of sorrow stricken since Young manhood he woke and a Earl it there was no satisfactory re people. The president breathed his asked for mrs. Mckinley. That last sponge and oxygen was applied. In it a or a for or ,Nir ail that it meant at Oclock Secretary Cortelyou seven Day god will not oar a do a i a of a fight for Kef covering private meeting with ail that it meant of Iovu re a Vili it a wow a a of a Tang Etc a in the Dath Harn her in All that time. Although for both of that a was for the stricken red la j nearer my god Vuk fiber Hudy 9 30�?the president is slowly dying. At it is announced the pres in. To night. Secretary Cortelyou sent this an i 11 05 p. messenger from the i noun cent from Che House at 9 30 p. House announces that the presidents by the Sublimes Christian serenity. At the Kame time or. I vitally is marvellous Coadic ions re-1although for both of them was for the stricken a in not a the president a physicians report Zajc hymn. Suffering intensely he in t i rested a wife alone with a Beautiful courage Thal has of Gill it ii Tion is give a this hour. House Buffalo sept. 13. M a Gal i flee at courage that always will hat seemed to Rise with the need of j is Suft Erir a from extreme Prostran 13 last period of con to a proud he engage to he people of the hour. Mrs. Mckinley though Tion. Oxygen is being Given. The re 8ciousness was spent with mrs. Men oui broken in health and wracked almost to the ? is p Kinley at the bedside of her dying h Pul a be 1 re Prat in husband. She bore her affliction Ith the nation hat he loved. Was sustained through the dark h airs to he breaking Point with her overwhelming sorrow walked bravely pulse 125, respiration 49.�?� As soon is this Boie tin was pub to it she i the greatest apprehension wast fix it a the time w Hen he w As pierced the bedside of the president and gave i Felt by those who had watched the Superb fortitude. It was during his coat tailed 00 Pale �u4 ;