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Show TOUCHING PRIVATE FUNERAL AT MILBURN HOME, BUFFALO, AH Present, Including tlie New President, Greatly Affected fey Pathetic Incidents 80,033 People Pay Respects to Martyred President at Buffalo City Hall. A touching private funeral wai held at the Milburu house at liofTulo, Hun-dny, Hun-dny, where the president died. It waa j attended only by th family, cloae peraonal frlenda, diplomatic representatives represen-tatives who chanced to be In the city, ' government olllcinls and representatives representa-tives from the army and navy. It wua Inexpreanlbty aad. With few exuep-tloua exuep-tloua those present were bound to the dead president hy tlea of strong friendship. friend-ship. To them the loss w as a personal one. About one hundred In all saw the body. Home were ao overcome with grief at eight of the thin countenance, their frames shook convuUively, Several Sev-eral clung to the aldu uf the bier aud with difllculty could be persuaded to leave. Almost every face waa tear atalued. The great love for this man choked all In the house. (Senator llniiua, who had fairly worshiped wor-shiped hla dead friend for yeura, waa a picture of despair. Hla faca waa act ilka an Iron-willed man who could not let down the barrier of bla grief. The senator a poke to np one. Ilia eye were vacant. He paased through the throug and aeated himself beside (lovernor Odell, alttlng far down Into hla chair aud resting hla head upon hla hand. During alHh service that followed ha did not atlr. President Roosevelt came at U o'clock. He, too,' like the man deep down In hla seat against the wall who had forgotten to rise when lha president presi-dent of the United Ntutea entered, seemed to be restraining a great grief. When President Roosevelt reached the head of tha line of cabinet oil Ice re, j where a place had been reserved for him, he kept his fnce away from tha casket He tpvnred to be steeling hltutulf for a look Into the fuce of him whose death had made him the flrnt ruler of the world. The tension Io the room was great, everyone seemed to be waiting. The minister of the gospel stood with the Holy Rook In hla hand ready to begin. Perhups It might have beeu sixty secouds, it seemed longer. Then th president turned and at the sum time advanoed one step. , lie bowed his head and looked down upou the mitti whuse burden and responsibilities re-sponsibilities he had tulten upon himself. him-self. l.ong he gn.eil, atandlug Immovable Immov-able save fur a twitching of the muscle of the chin aa he lnbored with heavy breath to represa hla emolloo. At last he stepped hack. A signal wits given and there welled out from the hall the beautiful worda of "Lead, Kindly Light," sung by a (tiartetUi. It was I'resident M.-Kin ley's firvurlte hymn. Kveryune within sound of thn musio knew it, and half of thos in the room put their faces In their Intuit to hide their tears. Comptroller Dawva lunucd ugalnst a bookcaao aud wept. I'resideut Uooscvult seemed to lie swaying to and fro aa if his fooliog were Insecure. 9 When the singing ended tho olergy-man olergy-man read from the worda of tha fifteenth fif-teenth ohsiiterof the First Corinthians. All had risen aa he began and remained , atandlug throughout tha remainder of tha aervica. Again tha volcea roae with the worda "Nearer, My Ood, to Thee," th very word I'realdent McKlnley had revested re-vested at Intervals of oonsclouaneaa during th day of agony before he died, A th music dlsit away, IU. Charles Kdwsrd Locke offered a vary touching prayer. Tha aervicva closed with th Lord's prayer, all present Joining Io, Mra McKinlcy bora lit atraln remarkably re-markably well. Khe waa In a room adjoining that In which the caaket lay, surrounded by a few relallvca and at tended by Dr. Itixcy. At the close of the service at th Milhurn home tha casket wa taken to the lliilTulo city hull, where th body lay In atate from I '4 noon until midnight, mid-night, wheru t waa viewed by 80,000 people who ' J through the bulldlni' In a rontlnr. na stream. When tU doors were finally closed titer wer Ihoiibsnds yet tn line, anxious for a last look at thu fuulures uf thu beloved deAil. |