It was just after the daily or-gan recital in the splendid Tem-ple of Music that the dastardlyattempt was made. Plannedwith all the diabolical ingenuityand finesse of which anarchy ornihilism is capable, the would-beassassin carried out the workwithout a hitch, and should hisdesigns fail and the

PEAXS FORTH MELODYWHILE THE ORGAN

surrounded by the stern faced in-quisitors of the law, is a mediumsized man of commonplace ap-pearance with his fixed gaze di-rected on the floor, who presseshis lips firmly together andlistens with.an air of assumed in-difference to tfie persistentstream of questions, arguments,objurgations and admonitionswith which his captors seek toinduce or compel him to talk.ASSASSIN ACTS

The multitude, only partiallyaware that something serioushad -.happened, > paused in sur-prise, while necks were cranedand all eyes turned as one to the

There was an.instant of almostcomplete silence. The Presidentstood stock still, a look of hesi-tancy, almost of bewilderment,on his face. He then retreated astep, while a pallor began tosteal over his features.

President McKinley, smiled,bowed and extended his hand inthat spirit of geniality the Ameri-can. people; so well know, .whensuddenly, sharp crack of a re-volver rang out loud and clear,above the:huni of voices, theshuffling of myriad feet and vi-brating waves of :applause ; thatever and anori swept here andthere over the assemblage.

of;the dais until he was withintwo feet of the President.

rostrum, where a great tragedywas being enacted, j

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Then came a .commotion.Three men threw themselves for-ward as • with one impulse andsprang toward the would-be as-sassin. Two of them were UnitedStates secret service men whowere on the lookout, and whoseduty it was to guard against justsuch a calamity as had here be-fallen the President and the na-tion. The third was a bystander,a negro, who had only an instantpreviously grasped the hand ofthe President. In a twinkling theassassin was borne to the ground,his weapon was wrested fromhis grasp, and strong arms pin-ioned him down. •

Then the multitude whichthronged the edifice began tocome to a realizing sense of theawfulness of the scene of whichthey had been unwilling, wit-

John G. MilburnN.of Buffalo,president of the Pan-AmericanExposition, chatting '. with thePresident and introducing himespecially to persons of note whoapproached. Upon

'the Presi-

dent's left stood Secretary: Gor-telyou. ; . y

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PRESIDENT EXTENDSHAND TO COWARIXLYr

, : ANARCHIST WITH:GUN

;-dt was shortly, after 4^p/tm.when one of the throng whichsurrounded "the ;•;. Presidentialparty, a medium sized man of or-dinary appearance and plainlydressed inblack, approached, as ifto¦greet, the President. Both Sec-retary Cortelyou and PresidentMilburn noticed that the man'shand was swathed in a bandageor handkerchief. Reports of by-standers differ as-to which hand.He worked his way amid thestream of people up to the edge

survive, only to divine Provi-dence can be attributed that ben-eficent result. » -

The ;President, though wellguarded by United States SecretService detectives, was fully ex-posed to such an attack. -as oc-curred. He stood at the edge ofthe raised dais upon which standsthe great pipe organ: at the eastside of the magnificent '•¦structure.Throngs of people crowded virTatthe various entrances to gazeupon their executive, perchanceto clasp his hand, and then filetheir way out in the. good ,na-tured mob* that every minuteswelled and multiplied at thepoints of ingress and egress to

the building.The President was in a cheer-

ful mood and was enjoying tothe full the hearty evidence ofgood will which everywhere methis gaze. Upon his right stood

SCENE OF THE DARING ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT McKINLEY.(DRAWN FROM A DESCRIPTION BY TELEGRAPH.)

For thb moment the confusionwas terrible. The crowd surgedforward regardless of conse-quences.. Men shouted andfought, women screamed andchildren cried. Some of thosenearest the doors fled from theedifice in fear of a stampede,while hundreds from the outsidestruggled blindly forward in theeffort to penetrate the crowdedbuilding and solve tfte mysteryof the excitement and panicwhich every moment grew andswelled within the congested in-terior of the edifice.PRESIDENT REMAINS

vv- IN'MOST TRANQUILSTATE OF KEEND

Inside, on the slightly raiseddais was enacted within thosefew feverish moments a tragedyso dramatic in character, so thrill-ing in its intensity that few v/holooked on will ever be able togive a succinet account of whatreally did transpire. Even^hosewho attended the President caniebut with blanched faces; trem-bling limbs and beating hearts,while their brains throbbed witha tumult of conflicting emotionswhich could not be clarified intoa lucid narrative of the events a3they really transpired.

Of the multitude whicH wit-nessed or bore a part in the sceneof turmoil and turbulence therewas but one mind which seemed^to..retain its equiliSrium, one

sion, then grew to a babel ofsounds and later to a pande-monium of noises.WITH A SINGLE

, raOTTLSE CROWDSURGES FORWARD

The crowds that a moment be-fore had stood mute and motion-less, as in bewildered ignoranceof the enormity of the tragedy,now with a single impulse surgedforward toward fhe stage of thehorrid drama, while a hoarse crywelled up from a thousandthroats and a thousand mencharged forward to lay handsupon the perpetrator of thecrime.

nesses. A murmur arose, spreadand swelled to a hum of cor.fu-

Officers of the LawLose No Timer irt'Jail-

ing the Prisoner.

Attempt Is Made toLynch Fiendish

Assassin.

Saved Fran theEnraged Pop-

ulace^ •

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President William McKinley is shot twice by an anarchistic pupil of Emma Goldman. The at-tempted assassination occurs during a public reception in the Temple of Music at Buffalo Exposition

Two bullets enter the President's body, one penetrating the breast, which was subsequently ex-tracted, and the second, which causes a more serious wound, enters the abdomen. Wounded Chief Executive is first cared for by physicians of Emergency Hospital of the Exposition, and later removed tothe home of Director General nilburn'. %

Avhile the assailant is being taken in the custody of the police to jail attempts are made tolynch him by the enraged populace. >:. *A£ three

°'cIock this (Satuirday) morning a bulletin is sra^

ing that his temperature and :pulse are'improved. -

STORY OF TERRIBLE CRIME TOLD IN BRIEF.To-night a surging, swaying,

eager multitude throngs thecity's main thoroughfares, chok-ing the streets, in front of theprincipal newspapers, scanningthe bulletins with anxious eyesand groaning or cheering in turnat each succeeding announce-ment as the nature of the mes-sage sinks or buoys their hopes.

Down at police headquarters,

Itwas a few moments after 4p. m. while President McKinleywas holding a reception in theTemple of Music on the Pan-American grounds, that the cow-ardly attack was made, with whatsuccess time alone can tell.SHOT WHILE BEING

GREETED BY MANIFOLDEXPRESSIONS OP LOVE

Standing in the midst of thou-sands, surrounded by every evi-dence of good will,pressed by amotley throng of people, show-ered with expressions of love andloyalty from enthusiastic multi-tudes, all eager to clasp hishands

—amid these surroundings,

and with the ever-recurringplaudits of an army of sightseersringing in his ears, the blow ofthe assassin came and in an in-stant "pleasure gave way to pain,admiration to anger, folly turnedto fury and pandemonium fol-lowed.

Out on Delaware avenue, atthe home of John C. Milburn,president of the Pan-AmericanExposition, with tears on faceand heart torn by conflictinghopes and fears, sits the faithfulwife, whose devotion is known toall the nation.

BUFFALO, Sept 6.—President McKinleywas shot and seri-ously wounded by awould-be assassin

while holding a reception in theTemple of Music at the Pan-American grounds a few minutesafter 4 o'clock this afternoon.One shot took effect in the rightbreast, the other in the abdomen.The first is not of a serious na-ture, and the bullet has been ex-tracted- The latter pierced theabdominal wall and has not beenlocated.

When Serious Nature ofWounds Appear an

Uproar Ensues.

President Strives toCalm Enraged

People.

Many Witness theAssault on

Guest.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE THE VICTIMOF MOST COWARDLY ANARCHIST

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THE SA^FRAXCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1901.'2