New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-10

A SISTER OF GENERAL MCDOWELL SEIZED WITH
AroPLUxY AND DIES ON THE STEPS OF THE
AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK.
Mrs. Elise BridgTnan, wife of Lcutenant-C oioneel
Francis BridgmaT, PayInaster on General Shcridans
staff died suddenly yesterday III Br9adway ".
w. c. Boone, whose wife is Colonel Br,dgman
niece received telegram Friday stating that Mrs.
Bridgman would ARR ve in the city yesterday morn
ing from Chicago where she lived. lie went to the
Bridgman who wac accompanied by her daughter
Annie. age eighteen ana h1r I'm and
happy and appeared to be enjoying good health.
She said to Dir. Boone that she intended gong to
Marthas Vineyard for the spmneri oHt wQno mnc
WAYS and other objects of interest IN the city she
remarked that she had risen early on the tram and
felt faigued and before starting on her days pleas
ure she wanted to take breakfast. The party then
went 10 the Aston House, where Mrs. Brdgman ate
n hearty breakfast aud spoke pleasantly of matters
OF family interest
After breakfast DR.. Boone proposed trip to the
top of the Equitable Building and Trinity Church.
Mrs. Bridgman consented hut said that she would
like to secure accommodations on the Fall River
boat to Newport, where she was to meet Colonel A.
was to conduct her 20 hartha's Vineyard. 1t was
then about 8, o'clock. The, party left the Aston
House. and tickets were purchased in broadway for
the Fall River boat which will leave the city to-
night, Mrs. Bridgnan having accepted an invita-
After the tickets were purchased tho party
walked down Broadway, Dr. Boone and Miss Bridg-
man being i'll advance and Mrs Bridgman and her
son following lew feet behind. When near Cedar
81. Mrs. Brdgman exclaimed that she felt sick, and
Eil0 tnat she could not 30 any turtner. DE- Boone
took her by the and sAodsh 10 go to his office,
which on the block below. lie does not prac
tce medicine now. but is connected with the firm of
Donnell. Lawson & Simpson. She then tainted in
the doctors arms and he carried her to the steps of
the American Exchange National Bank Building.
crowd had collected Ill the street, aud Dr. Boone
asked a bystander to get some water. He spoke to
Mrs. BTdgman but she did not answer him, and he
felt her pulse, which very roebe. In less than
a minute after she had sat TIC steps she gaSpod
several times and expired. = ..bulance was sent
for, but when the ply stefan al ii he pronounced
the woman dead, and said that he could not remove
corpse to the hospital. So the body taken
into the vestibule of the bank building, and was
cousin No. ~ East Fiftyffth-st. In the afternoon
Coroner Brady held an examination III the house:
DIR. BoOne's testimony was taken, i'll " hch he told
the story of Mrs. Bridgman's arrival lie sand
that 1t his opinion that she died of
heart disease, but DR.. Rae1e the Deputy
Coroner. said that the cause of death cerebral
apopeXy conplicating valvular disease of the
heart"
In the afternoon a telegram was sent to General
Hancock informing him of Mrs. Bird gluan's death
and he sent message To her husband, who went 10
Rock Island Friday. Mrs. Bridgnan the
youngest sister of General Mcdowell who is III San
Major Malcolm Mcdowell, live i'll Chicago; the
former is superintendent of the building of the
Custom House, and the latter is connected with the
Chicago Chrome Steel Works Commander w. r.
Bridgman, who il at the torpedo station III New
port, is her nephew, and Colonel Rogers who was
secretary cxPresident Hayes, is her cousin. Mrs
Bridgman was born i'll Ohio about 1880 and was
married twenty years ago. She had only two chill
dren.