Dead Face Changing Color

President McKinley’s Body Was Not Properly Embalmed.

Special to “The Record[.]”
     Washington, D. C., Sept. 17.—It is doubtful if the people of Canton will be allowed to look at the face of the dead President. Owing to the condition of his internal organs after his death it was impossible properly to embalm the President. An attempt was made, but with little success. As a consequence, the face is already changing color, and it is thought that decomposition will be so far advanced by Thursday that it will be inexpedient to take off the lid of the coffin, although the undertakers may be able to restore the color to the face.
     Thousands who saw the dead President to-day were shocked by the wan and wasted appearance of his face and body and by the discolorations that have already begun to appear.