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Show TOUCHING PRIVATE FUNERAL AT MILBURN HOME, BUFFALO. All Present, Including the New President, Greatly Affected by Pathetic Incidents -80,033 People Pay Pcspccts to Martyred President at Buffalo City Hall. A touching private funeral was held at lha M.lbnrn house at Buffalo. Sunday, Sun-day, where the president died. It waa attendej only by tba family, elosa personal frienda. diplomatic represen-tativea represen-tativea wbo chanced to b In tha city, government offlciala and representatives representa-tives from the army and navy. It waa inexpressibly aad. With few excep-tiona excep-tiona thoaa present wera bound to the dead preaidenl by tieaof strong friendship. friend-ship. To them lha loaa waa a personal one. About ona hundred ia all aaw the body. Some wera ao overcome with grief at aigbt of tha thin countenance, tbeir framea shook convulsively, rstv- ral clung to lha aide of tha bier and with difficulty eould be persuaded to leave. Almost every face waa tear-atainad. tear-atainad. Tba great love for thia man choked all in the bouse. senator Haona, wbo bad fairly worshiped wor-shiped bia dead friend for yeart, waa a picture of drapair. Ilia face waa aet like an iron-willed man wbo could not let doWn the barrier of bia grief. Tba aenator apoke to no ooe. Hiaeyeewere vacant. Ha paaaed through the throng and aeated himself beside Governor eeemed longer. Then the president turned and at Ihe aame time advanced one ale p. He bowed hia head and looked down upon tha man whose burden and ra-apooaibilitiea ra-apooaibilitiea he had taken npn hin-aelf. hin-aelf. Long he gae.1. atanding immovable immov-able aava for a twitching of the muaeiea of the chin aa he labored with heavy breath to repress bis emotion. At laat he atepped back. A a gnal waa given and there walled out from tbe ball tha beautiful worda of -Lead, Kindly Light," aung by a quartette. It was 1'reaideat McKinley'a favorite hymn. Everyone w ithin eound of tha mnaic knew It, and half of thoaa in tba room put their facee In tbeir handa to hide their tears. Comptroller Dawea leaned against a book-caae and wept Preeident r.oosev.ll aeemed to . be awayinj to and fro aa if hia footing ware insecure. When tha aioging ended tha e'.ergy-' man read from the worda of tha fifteenth fif-teenth chanter of the First Corlolbiaoa. All bad riaen aa he began and remained ' atanding throughout Ihe remainder of I tha eervic. ! Again tha voicea ne with the worda 1 v r si, .od. to Thee." tha very Odell. aitting far down into bia cnair ! and resting hia head upon bia hand. During all tha service thst followed he did not stir. President Roosevelt earoe at 11 o'clock. He. loo. like the man deep j down in his sest sgsinal tha wall who : had forgotten to riaa when tha presi- j dent of the United btatee enteral, j aeemed to be restraining a great grief. When President Rooaevelt reached lha ' bead of the line of cabinet officers, 1 where a place had been reserved for bim, ha kept hia faca away from tha casket. Ha appeared to be eteeling himself for a look into the faca of him whose death had made him tha first ruler of lha world. Tba tension Id tba room waa great, everyone seemed to be wsitlng. Tha miniater of tha gospel stood with ths Holy Rook in his head ready to begin. Parbapa It might have been sixty seooade, It worda President McKinley bad repeated re-peated at interva of eoosciouaneae daring the day of agony before he died. Aa the music diei ewev, Kev. Charise Edward l-ocke offered a very touching prayer. The aervicea closed with the Lord a prayer, all present joioing in. Mrs. McKinley bore the strain ra-I ra-I markably wall, she aa in a room ! adjoining that ia which thecaskel lay. j aurrounded by a few reiativea aad attended at-tended by Dr. Kixev. Altbeeloae of Ihe aervicea at tha I Uilburo borne tbe casket waa taken lo lha Buffalo city hall, where tba body i lay In state from li noon nntil midnight, mid-night, where it waa viewed by eu people who filed through the buildinr in a eonlinooua atream. Wbea lb. doors wera finally closed there wera tbouaaads yet in line, ssxious for a lsat look st lbs features of the belovsa dssd. |