The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1901. PROSPECT THAT THE PRESIDENT MAY RECOVER FROM INJURIES BRITONS DISPLAY SINCERE OVER SURROW SAD NEWS Manifestations of Grief in London When Reports in Buffalo of the Tragedy Are Re- ceived. ONDON, _Sept. 6.—The news of the attempt upon the life of President McKinley spread slowly in London. The first ticker reports | »were discredfted. Then, with the confirmation and gen- eral dissemtnation of the news, arose a far-reaching feeling of sorrow and indignation, which wherever Americans were gathered gain- ed almost the proportions of a panic, ac- companied by feverish anxiety for further details. The thousands of Americans now in Lo were mostly at the theaters when the news arrived, and returning to their hotels found anxious groups of English- men and Americans discussing what, without cistinction of race, is regarded as a national calamity. London’s tele- usvally silent at night, tinkled patient inquiries addressed to sers and American correspond- the hope of securing a denial of t The announcement of the attempted as- was recetved too late for extra « papers to announce the the maes of English people, and learn until they take up g papers of the attempt to he Prest conveyed the intelli- ckay, Thomas Ochiltree, W. Gates and many whom desired to express tion at the cowardly act, the v with Mr. McKinley and Added to this per- v dread that what- = of the outrage upon the d perhaps result fatally w Comparatively few Englishmen heard night, but 2all these expressed ympathy as genuine as if it King instead of a President. personality, his England and his kindly messages of condolence upon the occasion 4 s death were all called es as low and awe-stricken as y American gathering. , recalling a conversation McKinley a few weeks ago, sald: “I had been telling the Pres!- dent of my experiences in Russia, where | It d # easier to get to the Czar than | McKinley said he believed o the lot of some of the House men before many North and South America.” The Lord Mayor ned of the attempt upon the Presi- s life by a press representative, and e greatest grief and emotion. a: st Aldermen to-morrow formally to express to Mrs. McKinley and the American peo- ple the horror and grief felt at the at- e he news comes to me 1 the greatest possible ghock, and I ure that every citizen of London will am the news, and all the playing. Crowds sur- tin boards. ward Receives News. BERLIN, Sept. 6—King Edward was traveling from Frankfort to Hamburg when the news of the attempt upon the ent McKinley was received m was at once dispatched to nting him with the deed 2 y was strongl of police and it doubted that this latest an- attem, 1 result in the re- utions upon ti various impertal ikelthood , it may that he cided yes- a The Gaulois sa of sing to the States , our sympa- orror at the crime 0 mourning, but the grand people in God them to again recover them- Matin ation of Mr. McKinley's po- nd the purity of his home s as follows: “Hazard ust, but never more allows a criminal mad- the name of some abom- 1 liberty the most dem fef of a free people.’ © pays a warm tribute to the of Mr. McKinley, but esentative of the spi rotection, and asks wheti fon of the crime is not to be e fact that Mr. McKinley p the eves of the crowd, aristoc- D &a the Figaro oins in the anguish and in the people, bec v was first respons restricted com- mercial relatio peo- ples, he afterward consented to mitigate his regime and renewed the current of trade between them. “We remember the affectionate tele- gram that Mr. McKinley sent to the Pres- ident of France at the time of the peace negotiations between Spaln and the United States and the concillation and humane policy of Americans in China, while Mr. McKinley has been astonishing the world by his moderation and spirit o justice in the dispute between Colombix ard Venezuela. We therefore express the ed to control the destinies | of London was ln-‘ call a meeting of the | canceled thelr engage- | to | £ wish that Americans be spared mourn- ing.” The Eclair declares that the attempt to assassinate the President will arouse as much indignation and condemnation in France as in the United States, and re- calls the sympathy expressed by the American people at the time of the assas- sination of President Carnot. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 6.—The news of the assault on President McKinley caused a painful expression at Fredrichenborg. | Emperor Nicholas, King Christian of Den- —— + | AT CArt MERINLE 3+ MRS, THE MSKINLEY HOME o . — + 'ABNER MKINLEY RECEIVES NEWS OF THE GRIME Train on Which He Is Traveling to the Coast Is Intercepted in Colorado and Turns Back. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. ENVER, Sept. 6.—“I don't | beer. shot reached him at Baileys believe it,” was Abner Mc- Kinley's first exclamation when he heard the news of the attempt to assassinate his brother, the President. He was greatly agitated and paced up and down the car for several minutes. The simple fact that the President had | mark and King George of Greece dis- | patched telegraphic messages of sym- pathy for Mrs. McKinle |GREAT AMERICANS EXFRESS SORROW Senator Thomas C. Platt | Declares Lynching Would Be }l{sfiiflable. ; NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Senator Thomas | C. Platt said with reference to the shoot- | ing of President McKinley: “It is appall- It does not seem possible that any | ing. | man could do such a thing. That man | was an anarchiet. He was not crazy. There was t00 much method in the way he did the act. I advocate drumhead court-martial and that the man be taken off at cnce. This is one instance where I think lynch law justifiable.” Former Attorney General Griggs, in dis- | cussing at Paterson, N. J., the shooting of President McKinley, said: *I warned b against this very thing time and » again. I asked him for the coun- try's sake and his own to have a body- guard when be went out. He refused; he aughed at me. He insisted that the American people were too intelligent and too loyal to their country to do any harm | to their chief executive. He had supreme | confidence in the people.” When Secretary of War Root, who was | at Southampton, heard that the President had been shot he immediately began ar- ranging to start for New York and thence to Buffalo. When seen to-night he said “I cannot talk. What is there to It is terrible, terrible!” Secretary Root left the Grand Central station at 11:10 to-night for Buffalo in a special train. He was accompanied by Mr. Dixon, a specialist whom he is tak- ing to the bedside of the President. The train was made up of a single coach and engine and all possible speed will be made to reach Buffalo In record-breaking time. y 8ir Thomas Lipton to-night, on board his steam yacht Erin, said, referrins to the shooting of President McKinley: “I was stunned on receiving news which I could have regarded as no worse if it had been King Edward himself who had been shot. 1 am sure every Britisher extends the hand of sympathy to all Americans in this sad affair. I should very deeply re- there by telephone or otherwise. Luckily he was first to arrive with the informa- tion. The Niagara Falls trip had tired Mrs. McKinley, and on her return to the Milburn residence she took leave of her nieces, the Misses Barber, and the Presi- dent’s nlece, Miss Duncan, as well as their hostess, Mrs. Milburn, and went to her room to rest. Mr. Buchanan broke the news as gently as possible to the nieces and consulted with them and Mrs. Milburn as to the best course to pursue in breaking the news to Mrs. McKinley. It was finally Kinley would have on the international vacht races. ‘“We don't care to think of | such an ending,” sald he, “and we cannot | think of such conditions. I do not know that the probable death would mean a postponement of the international yacht race, nor can I say what would be done. The club, however, would take suitable action in the event of such an appalling catastrophe as the President's death.” ‘When J. Plerpont Morgan was informed effect the possible death of President Mc~l Contlnil?d]n Pag; ".l‘hirteen. PRESIDENT’S possible. The great courage will survice the shock health, she is passing. i - REMARKABLE FORTITUDE IN ORDEAL Mrs. McKin'ey showed remarkéble fortitude when Dr. Rixey told her of the attempt made upon ths life of her husband. She expressed a desire to have the President removed to the Milburn house, which was done as soon as WIFE SHOWS MOST shown by the President’s wife gives hope that she and ordeal through which, in her delicate state of gret that any serious results should fol- low this sad calamity.” Asked if the President should dle, would it have any effect upon the inter- national races, Sir Thomas said in a low voice: ‘“He is not dead yet. I do not care to speak of that.” Sir Thomas will not sail the Shamrock to-morrow on account of the Buffalo tragedy. X Commodore Kane of the New York Yacht Club was asked to-night what — 3 declded that on her awakening, or short- ly thereafter, Mr. Buchanan should break the news to her, if in the meantime her physician, Dr. Rixey, had not arrived. Mrs. McKinley awoke from her sleep about 5:30 o’clock. She was feeling splen- didly, she sald, and at once took up her crocheting, which is one of her favorite diversions. Immediately on Mr. Buchan- SAD NEWS BROKEN TO MRS. McKINLEY PRSP, BUFFALO, Sept. 6.—Immediately the President was cared for at the Exposition grounds Director General W. 1. Buchanan l an's arrival at the Milburn home he had started for the Milburn residence (o fore- | telephonic communication therewith cut stall any information that might reach off, for already there had been several o calls, and he decided on this as the wisest course to pursue, lest Mrs. MeKinley, hearing the continued ringing of the tele- | phone bell, might inquire what it meant. While the light of day remained Mrs. MecKinley continued with her crocheting, keeping to her room. When it became dusk and the President had not arrived she began to feel anxious concerning him. “I wonder why he does not come?’ she asked one of her nieces. There was no clock in Mrs. McKinley's room and when it was 7 o’clock she had no idea it was so late and this was when she began to feel anxious concerning her husband, for he was due to return to Mr. Milburn's home o'clock Dr. Rixey arrived at the Milburn residence. He had been driven hurriedly down Delaware avenue in an open car- riage. As he came up Mr. Buchanan was out on the lawn conversing with a re- porter. “Do you know,” said Mr. Buchanan, “I had a sort of premonition of this. Since early morning I had been extremely ner- vous and feared that something might go wrong. Our trip to the falls was un- eventful, but what an awful sad ending to our day.” At 7:20 o’clock Dr. Rixey came out of the house, accompanied by Webb Hayes, a son of former President Hayes, who s a friend of President McKinley. They en. tered a carriage and returned to the ex. position hospital. After Dr. Rixey had gone Mr. Buchanan said the doctor had broken the news in a most gentle manner to Mrs. McKinley. He sald she stood it bravely, though she was much affected. If it was possible to bring him to her she wanted it done. Dr. Rixey assured her that the President could be brought with safety from the exposition grounds, and when he left Mr. Milburn’s it was to complete all arrange. ments for the remcvai of the President. The big force of regular patrolmen was assigned to the Milburn residence. At 7:30 p. m. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and Miss Wilson called and were admitted to the Milburn residence. | | about 6 o'clock. At 7| | | been singularl | on g¢he spot one great inducement to t Colo., afternoor > as traveli about 4 o’clock thi: 1 in which he diately started back to Den this city at 8 o’clock this evening. Har Van Mater of the Celorado and Seuthera took charge of all dispatches over the | company s wires and suppressed all sen- ional bulleting, so that when Mr. Mec- v reached Denver he had rd that vas a chance for his brother’'s re- ry and was more composed than | had been. | a terrible blow,” said Mr. Me- Kiriey to-night. “I had no idea that any of these horrible anarchfst plots wers hatching in this country. It seems almost incredible to me yet that any one sh 1 alm at the life of the President, who pleasing, apparently, to Our whole party is overcome every class. with grief. The bulletins say that he has a good chance to recover, and I am hop- ing for the be: m sure he will live, and I shall hurry {6 Buffalo as fast as I |can. The private placed at our d | posa1 President Trumbull of the Colo- | rado and Southern will be run ahead of the regular train, in which we go out to- night as a spe if matters are more se- ri than I belleve they are now. The messages from the President’s bedside are very cheerful, however, and that is a great relief.” On the way ‘into Denver from Baile; a distance of about sixty miles, bullet on the President’s condition were receive on Mr. v special Kinley's train. In De the President's bec isposal ;. and Dr. Baer, A McKinley’'s son-in-law, received the Is est bulletins. Mr. McKinley himself ¢ not leave the train. The last news he re- celved before he started BEast was that the President was resting easily and was in no immediate danger. At 10 o’clock to- night, in the special car Colorado, belong- ing to President Trumbull of the Colorado and Southern, attached to the Burlington Chicago special limited, Abner McKinley, his wife and his daughter’s husband, Dr. Baer, a maid and a man . started eastward. Chicago on Sunday morning at 7:30 o'clock and will leave an hour later on the Lake Shore for Buffalo. If, on the way, news tha the President is worse is received the pri- vate car will be detached from the regu- lar train and rushed ahead of it as a spe= cial into Buffalo. The McKinleys were on their way to Lake City, where Abner McKinley owns a mine, when their trip was interrupted. From Lake City they intended to go to California on a pleasure trip. @ i @ LONG ACCOUNTS IN LONDON PRESS Need of Greater Police Pre- cautions Is Urged in the Editorials. LONDON, Sept. 7.—All the newspapers this morning publish long aceounts from Buffalo describing the attempt on Pre: dent McKinley's life; spatches from abroad regarding the ception of the news, which excites renewed and anxious discussion of means to prevent anarchist outrages; references to previous attempts and the urgent need of the adoption of greater police precautions than ever in republics and the freest countries. The Daily Telegraph says: “It is with pro regre e world learns to-day that another distinguished man is added to the criminally long list of rulers who have fallen victims of the of ussassins. Meost unfeigned rtfelt sympathy will go forth from every family in Christendom to Mrs, Me- Kinley in t her hour of deepest sorrow and trial. Americans will acquit us of all suspicion of insincerity when we claim the blow will be felt with almost equal severity in Great Britain as in the United States. Referring to the sympathy displayed by Americans a2t the time of the death of Queen Victoria, the Dally Telegraph say “Sympathy can only be repaid by sympa thy, though it is mournful satisfaction that the debt we so gratefully discharge should have fallen due so soon. The article concludes by dilating upon the inexplicability of the crime, commit- ted in a free country at a time of its greatest well-being against one of the most popular of rulers. The Daily Mail believes the motive un- derlying such crimes is notoriety, and that if such criminals could be dealt w commission of such attempts would be r moved. The Mail suggests that all rulers should be accompanied by armed men, instructed to shoot an assassin on the spot. The Times says editorially: “It will be a rellef to the feclings of the -American people to know that the criminal was not one of themselves. We will not contem- plate the possibility of fatality. but In any case the Government of the will not be disturbed. Roosevelt is a man of abliity and distine- tion, in whose hand, there is no doubt, the country's interests would be sc but President McKinley has gained an almest unequaled position and it would be a cruef stroke of fortune If he were cut off in the plenitude of his popularity and when his policy has been apparentl: vindicated by success."” United States President < d [ \ A