Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1901 — BUFFALO AT THE BIER. [ARTICLE]

BUFFALO AT THE BIER.

Body Lies in State and 100,000 People View the t emains. Funeral formalities and the outward manifestations of a Ration’s grief were all that remained after Saturday. With these over, the curtain falls upon the third great tragedy in the annals of American Presidents, and that tragedy and the career of William McKinley hava passed into history. Already the machinery of the chief executive branch of the government has resumed its routine. The body of the President lay Saturday night in the room wherein he died. It was removed to the parlors of the Milburn house for the funeral services at 11 o’clock Sunday morning. The services were simple in form, and were private, only the immediate members of the McKinley family and their closest friends were assembled. Mrs. McKinley was not With them. Immediately after the services the remains of the late President were taken to the Buffalo City Hall, and there lay in state from 12 o’clock until 11 o’clock at night. During these hours the City Hall was open to all citizens who desired to file past the casket in honor and respect to his memory. The casket was in view of all. The funeral procession from the Milburn home to the City Hafi was under command of Maj. Gen. John K. Brooke of the United States array. The body of the President was guarded throughout the night by United States soldiers, and at 7:30 o’clock Monday morning it was removed from the City Hall, and under escort of soldiery taken to the union station, where a funeral train went direct to Washington, arriving there on Monday evening.