Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-20

| were packed up and sent to the express Office
| without delay. The stir about the house died
! away by two o'clock and all was then as quiet
as it had been before the word Of death reached
| its portals. There were but few people in the
city who did not know last night that the Presi-
dent had passed away. As those who had been
| down town late went home people could be seen
with white back ground and heard calling from
windows and making anxious inquiries But
though the fact Of the death was generally
known there was
NO NOISE OR EXCITEMENT.
The sorrow was deep and STILL When STAR
reporter went home at o'clock this morning he
noticed in the northwestern section of the city
several houses which had put on the badge of
mourning. This morning by O'Clock hundreds
OF residences had the dark drapery upon them.
UNDER ARMS.
The Washington Light Infantry. the National
Rifles and Union Veteran Corps remained in
their armories all night. The Infantry have
decorated the Globe building from the second
story to the roof. The other military organza-
IONS nave decorated their armories. The deal
ers in the Center Market have decorated their
stands in an elaborate manner.
THE END HAS COME
Assistant Private Secretary O. L. Pruden re-
celved dispatch from Private Secretary Brown
at about half-past II pm. which read: .'The end
SUMMONED TO THE AUTOPSY
telegram was received here from Private
Secretary Brown last night asking that Surgeon
General Barnes, Surgeon Woodward and DR..
Reyburn should proceed to Eberon at once. 70
be present and assist at the autopsy. which Will
be made to-day. These gentlemen left as soon
as possible for Long Branch.
THE DEATH UNEXPECTED.
Col. H. c. Corbin received this morning
letter from Gen. Swain, dated at 9 O'clock,
stating that at that time immediate dissolution
was not apprehended About 10 o'clock last
night Col c. received telegram to come to
Long Branch at once. As it was too late to
start last evening, he left this morning.
at is All Over.-
THE NEWS ANNOUNCED TO THE NEWSPAPER
CORRESPONDENTS.
Special dispatches received from Long Branch
at The STAR office last night announced that
the death occurred at 1885 o'clock. A dispatch
dated at II pm. said: at was too late. 1t was
in vain. Almost before the full group and the
medicine came he had breathed his last. The
correspondents engaged the whole force of car
rlages and were driven pel nell to the Elberon.
They got there just in time. In two minutes
after their arrival on the stoop Warren Young
came slowly walking over to the hotel from the
cottage. What's the news?' 1t is all over, he
said. He was dead"
The Presidents Illness.
WHEN PY4FMIA WAS INDICATED-AN INTERVIEW
WITH PHYSICIAN WHO ATTENDED THE PREsI-
DENT AFTER HE WAS SHOT.
Dr. Beckwith formerly of Cleveland. Ohio.
and prominent physician. is in the city, He
was with the President the day he was shot
Hewas asked by THE STAR reporter last evening:
'Did you see the President after he was
shot ?"
eyes! I was with him most of the time
during Saturday after II o'clock and until
late in the evening""
"What was his condition. and how would you
have treated him."
His strength was good for a few hours,
when it was evident that he had internal
hemorrhage, and his strength declined until it
appeared that he could not survive the night
1t is probable that his life was saved by the
blood CLOTHING, thereby plugging up the mouths
of the torn vessels, which arrested the internal
bleeding. There was a large clot of blood in the
right side of the abdomen just below the liver
The presence of this clot was detected late in
the afternoon"
''How do you know there was a blood clot in
his side?'
by percussion the same means that are used
to detect solid lung" Continuing the doctor
said: ut was evident by the sense of touch that
there was a clOt, and it could be well defined
Late in the evening the President inquired:
How can | ever live to get rid Of this mass of
blood if the heInOrrhage has ceased That in
9uiry was very pertinent to the case. and one
that admits OF but one answer. viz: You prob
ably cannot unless the clot is removed am
of the opinion that the coagua of blood should
have been removed by the aspirator Failing by
this means an incisiOn to it and removal would
have been proper. 1t is especially well known
to surgeons who frequently remove Ovarium
tumors that if even the smallest amount of
blood is left in the cavity Of the abdomen the
patient is liable to die from septicamia and SO
careful is the most successful operators that
even one OF two hours are allowed to Intervene
before the wound is closed and the cavity of the
abdomen is carefully inspected. and even the
very least amount of blood is sponged out be-
fore closing OF the wound
Doctor, do you think the clot of blood was
the cause of blood poison in the Presidents
case!" asked your correspondent.
1t most probably was; pyamia is an acute |
disease, starting at point where noxiOus or |
putrd substances form. From this focus or |
point the septic OF putrid material is carried |
through the system by the circulation of the |
blood. Inthe President easel presume portion
OF the clot was disorganized and carried off |
through the opening in his back but a portion |
of it purified and poisoned his blood. Septic |
poisOns accumulate in the system in similar |
manner to trichina (hog poison). The putrefca- /
ton develops or originates animal life and every
point where the septic pus locates in the body |
colonies of minute monadS form and migrate /
through the tissues, and each and every colony |
caused more serious morbid symptoms. Thus |
weeks and months at times intervene before /
death ensues."
''When do you think the President began to |
suffer from blood poisOn!"
LESS than ten days after he was injured. |
The symptoms at that time indicated the pres |
ence of pyamia."
as there no treatment to kill these little de-
stroyers of human life?"
But few instances recover after the disease /
is fully developed. The only curativetreatment !
Is what is known as anti-septic, meaning those |
remedies that destroy the putreication and |
animalculR. The room should have been con-
stantly filled with a medicated atmosphere of |
thymol one of the best known anti-septics, and |
II there had been a free opening in the opening |
in the abdomen from the first, solution of the /
thymol should have been constantly injected at /
the point OF Infection"
Down the River.
HOW THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT WAS AN