The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-07-07
The WOUNDED PRESIDENT
STILL LIVES
And o.. Crisis a DANCE, is nov Passed.
Trust in the Lord, and He will Bring
il to Pass"

Saturday morning, July I'd, President
Garfield, accompanied by Secretary Blaine,
entered the waiting room of the Baltimore
s. Potomac Railroad Depot, at Washing
ton, at twenty five minutes past nine
O'Clock, intending to take the train, five
minutes later, to join his wife at Jersey
City, who was to come from Long Branch,
and spend the Sabbath at Ardsley, near
Irvington, on the Hudson, as the guests OF
Cyrus W. Field. The President and Sec.
retary had scarcely stepped inside the
room, where q number of the wives of the
Cabinet officers were among the waiting
passengers, before the contents of two
chambers of large revolver were dis
charged at President Garfield, one ball
entering his right arm, and second, an
instant later, passing into the body, just
over the right hip near the spine, and be
tween the tenth and eleventh ribs.
HE DRoPPED TO THE FLOOR,
the attention of the Mortified spectators
being divided between the victim and Sc
curing the assassin, one Charles Guiteau
who was quickly disarmed by the depot
police and taken to Jail, or he might have
been lynched, such was the excitement.
The wounded victim was carried up
stairs into the passenger agents room, and
DR.. Bliss was summoned by telephone
James, the Presidents eldest son, who had
taken a seat in the cars, was quickly at his
fathers side, and naturally felt, for the
moment, that justice demanded that he
should follow and shoot the murderer
but the wounded man counseled him tc
cooler thought by whispering: "No, my
son; that's not for you to. dor'
THE CHIEF ANXIETY
of the President seemed to be the breaking
of the shocking intelligence to his family
and telegram was dictated to be sent tC
his wife, putting the most favorable con
struction upon his condition, and asking
her to come quickly if she was able. A
police ambulance conveyed him to the
White House, where he was laid on hi!
bed in cool and quiet chamber, and the
several physicians in counsel failing tC
trace the bullet in his body, desisted, anC
administered ether and morphia to relieve
his great suffering.
HE SANK RAPIDLY,
and the report circulated in the grea
throng that surrounded the enclosure o.
the grounds, that the President was dead
This was telegraphed abroad, and in
thousands of country towns remote from
telegraph offices was not contradicted un
til next day. 1t was feared he might mo-
live until his wife, who was expected by
special train at O'Clock, could reach
Washington. An accident to the engine
delayed her arrival until few minute:
before seven. The President, through the
half hour, and when
HIS WIFE ARRIVED
his calm exterior and her superior self
control, with the tenderness of the meet
ing, moved all to tears.
During the day all the members of the
Cabinet, prominent Government officials
foreign ministers, and many friends called
or remained about the White House, while
hundreds of kilograms from all parts of the
country, and from feteign Governments
were received, expressing sympathy and
the most
INTENSE ANXIETY
for further information. From the De
partment of State was forwarded, by cable
particulars of the assassination to Ameri
can Consuls abroad. In this country the
news, too dreadful to be at once credited
flashed over the wires, passed from lip tC
lip, was carried in breathless haste Il
country towns, and repeated with white
faces from neighbor to neighbor as the
news of battle and death, of victory an6
disaster were spoken in the old dark day.
| of the war.
PRINTING PRESSES
could not turn off papers fast enough tC
meet the demand; the telegraph could no
| frequently enough satisfy the eagerness tC
hear from Washington; bulletins were is
sued wherever there were facilities fol
printing them, and until midnight of Sa
turday, Sunday and Monday nights, crowds
remained at the telegraph offices to ge
the latest dispatches.
THE NEWS, SUNDAY,
was somewhat more favorable, but Sunday
night was a very anxious one at the White
House, the Presidents symptoms becom
| ing more alarming. Doctors Hammonds
of New York, and Agnew, of Philadelphia
were called, and reached Washington
Monday morning. ALI persons except hi
physicians, his wife, and those who aideC
| in nursing the wounded man, were ex
cluded from the chamber, and the entir'
house was kept as quiet as possible. Their,
has been an increase of temperature anC
frequency of pulse toward evening eacl
day, not unexpected, but every time de
pressing any hopes raised in the Garlic
part of the day.
THE AGED MOTHER
of the President, who has been quite feebl
of late, and was with her daughter, Mrs
Trowbridge, in Solon, Ohio, was not in
formed of the bad news until Sunda,
morning, when she expressed herself a
feeling able to attend the funeral Of he