Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-09-23
DEATH the VICTOR
President Garfield
Ends His Fight Against
Death Monday Night.

o'clock Monday night. At SOW q. w
! he vas seized with n chill md Isis ptlss,
ran up to IS. Later in the day, how
ever. he became somewhat easier ana
the surgeons were encouraged. In the
evening he slept quietly, with his pulse
at 1O4, and DR. Bliss believed that
change for the better was setting in. A
few minutes before 10 o'clock, however,
DIR. Bliss saw the President aud found
him resting comfortably. The doctor then
retired to an adjoining room, leaving
Gen. Swain and Col Rockwell at the
bedside A few minutes after 10, the
President awoke suddenly and putting
{ his hand to his left side said II have
great pain here" These were his
: last words. Dr. Bliss was promptly
t summoned, aud On entering The room
T. found the President lapsiug into 4
J. seiousncss. The pulse was Autt 9
+ feebly, aud at 1898 the President wa.
u pronounced dead Mrs Garfield reach
e ell the room just before he died, but he
! was then unconscious. The members
E of the Cabinet we're at once summoned
aud a dispatch was seut by them to
Vice President Arthur informing him
of the event and asking him TO assume
the Office without delay. The Presi-
dents death was announced in New
York and throughout the country by
the toling Of bells
The following official bulletin was
prepared at II o'clock Tue day night
by the surgeons who have been in at
tendance upon the late President: "By
previous arrangement a post-morcm
examination of the body of President
Garfield was made this afternoon in the
presence aud win tic assist,neo Of Drs |
Hamilton. Agncw, Bliss, Barnes. |
Woodward, Reyburn, Andrew II
Smith, of Elbcron, and Acting Assist
ant Surgeon Lamb, of the Army Medi-
cal Museum, Washington. The opera /
ton was performed By Dir. Llmb. 1t
was founl that the ball, after fracturing
the right eleventh rib, had passed thro'
the spinal column in front of the spinal
canal, fracturing the body Of the first
lumbar vcrtcbae, driving a number Of
small fragments of bone into the adia- |
ceut soft parts aud lodging below the
pancrcas, about two inches and half to
the left Of the spine aud behind the pc
rtoncum, where it became completely |
cn.ystcd The immediate cause of
death was secondary hemorrhage from
one Of the mesentcric arteries adjoining
the track OF the ball, the blood ruptur-
ing the pnritougusn, ...-s--s.-...sJ4.- r-.--.sI
escaping into the abdominal cavity.
! This homorrhage is believed to have
been the cause of the severe pain in the
lower part of the chest complained Of
just bsfore death An absccss cavity, /
six inches by four in dimensions, was
found in the vicinity of the gall bladder,
between the lower aud the transverse
colon, which were strongly adhercnt. =
1t did not involve the substance of the
liver, and no communication was found
between it and the wound. A long
suppurating channel extended from the
external wound, between the lower
muscles aud the right kidney, almost to
the right groin This channel, now
known to be due to the burro wing of
pus from the wound, was supposed,
during life, to have been the track of
the ball. On an examination of the |
organs of the chest evidence of severe !
bronchitis were found on both sides,
with bronchial pneumonia of the lower
portions of the right lung, and, though
to a much less extent on the left; the
lungs contain no assesses and the heart
no clots. The liver was enlarged and
fatty, but free from assesses. Nor
were any found in any other organ, ex-
cept the left kidney, which contained
near its surface small absccss about
one-third of an inch in diameter. In
reviewing the history of the case in
connection with the autopsy, it is quite
evident that the different suppurating
surfaces, and especially the fractured
spongy tissue of the vertebrae, furnish
a sufficient explanation of the sepctie
condition which existed
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