Chapter 30—The Final Eccentricity
It would be difficult to imagine the rapidity with which the news got about. If each house in Chicago had been in telephonic communication with the bell at Oakwood, the seventeen hundred thousand inhabitants could not have heard the news more promptly or more simultaneously.
In a few minutes the cemetery was invaded by the population of the neighbouring quarters. Then the crowd flowed in from all parts. An hour afterwards the traffic was all stopped from Washington Park onwards. The Governor of the State, John Hamilton, informed in all haste, sent a strong detachment of militia, who got into the cemetery with some trouble and cleared out a number of the crowd to leave the access clear.
And the bell went on ringing, ringing, ringing all the time in the t
