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

| General Barnes. Surgeon Woodward and Or.
Reyburn should proceed to Elberon at once. TO
oe present and assist at the autopsy. which will
oe made to-day. These gentlemen left as soon
DIS possible Tor Long Branch.
THE DEATH UNEXPECTED.
Col. II. c. Corbin received this morning a
| letter from Gen. SWAIN dated at Q 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 il was too late to
start last evening, he left this morning.
ut 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 N35 o'clock. A dispatch
dated at IL pm. said: 1T 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
riages and were driven pel neil 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 PY1FMIA WAS INDICATED-AN INTERVIEW
WITH PHYSICIAN WHO ATTENDED THE PREsI-
DENT AFTER HE WAS SHOT.
DIR. Beckwith, formerly of Cleveland. Ohio.
and prominent physician, is in the city. He
was with the President the day he was shot
He was asked 10y THE STAR reporter last evening:
'Dd you see the President after he was
! shot 2"
Eyes. l was with him most of the time
during Saturday-afte IL o'clock and until
late i'm 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 urtil it
appeared that he could not survive the night.
1t is probable that his life was saved by the
blood clotting, thereby plugging up tie mouths
of the torn vessels, which arrested ne internal
bleeding. There was a large clot o blood in the
right side of the abdomen just below the liver.
The. presence of this cIot was detected late in
the afternoon"
''How do you know therewas blood clot in
his side?''
by percussion. the sane means that are used
to detect a solid lung" Continuing the doctor
said: sit was evident fy the sense of touch that
there was a clot. and.t could be well defined.
Late in the evening the President inquired:
How can ever lie TO get rid of this mass of
blood if the hemdrhage has ceased That in-
qniry was verypertinent to the case. and one
that admits of0ut one answer. viz: 'You prob
ably cannot uless the clot is removed am
of the opinpn that the coagula of blood should
have been removed by the aspirator Falling by
this mears an incision to it and removal would
have ben proper. 1t is especially We'll known
to surgeons who frequently remove Ovarium
tumos that if even the smallest amount of
bloGd is left in the cavity of the abdomen the
p;,ient is liable to die from septicama and so
c,reful is the most successful operators that
wen one or 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 amou Mt of blood is sponged out be-
fore closi ng OF the wound"
doctor. do you think the clot Of blood was
the cause Of blood poison i'm the Presidents
case:" asked your correspondent.
1t most probably was: pyemia is an acute
disease. starting at a point where noXious or
putrid substances form. From this focus or
point the septic or putrid material is carried
through the system by the circulation of the
blood. Inthe Presidents case presume portion
of the clot was disofganiZed and carried of
through the opening in his back. but IA portion
of it purified and poisoned his blood. Septic
poisons accumulate in the system in a similar
manner to trichina thog poson). The putrefca-
tion develops or originates animal life. and every
point where the septic pus locates i'm 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 py2mia.'
lis there no treatment to kill these little de-
stroyers of human life:'
But few instances recover after the disease
is fully developed. The only curative treatment
is what is known as anti-septic. meaning those
remedies that destroy the putrefcation and
animalcula. The room should have been con-
stantly filled with medicated atmosphere of
thymol. one of the best known anti-septics, and !
If there had been a free opening i'm the opening /
in the abdomen from the first. solution of the |
thymOl should have been constantly injected st |
the point of infection"
The Organization OF the Senate.
THE DRIFT OF OPINION AMONG DEMOCRATIC SEN |
AToRS.
There has been good deal of correspondence |
going on among democratic Senators Of late in !
regard to the organization of the SeEate. Sew /
eral letters have been received in The past few |
days from Senators who have been making a
canvass OF the democratic members of the Senate |
to ascertain how they intend voting when the
Senate meets. The canvassing has developed |
the fact that there is not bit of sentiment
among the democrats as regards what action
they shall pursue. They all give IT as their opn
ion that the Senate shall proceed to organization
before the two new Senators from New York and
the Senator to be appointed from Rhode
Island to succeed Senator Burnside-all of
whom will be republican, admitted. SEN
ator Garland is the only democrat who is |
thought entertains any other view than this
He is only reported to be in favor of allowing
the new Senators to be sworn i'm before going
into organization. Senator Beck says that there
is not a single democrat who entertans that |
view. The first step under these circumstances |
will be to elect President Of the Senate pro |
TEN. who will also lie Vice President Upon |
this point there has been good deal of can |
vassing among the democrats. The general /
drift of sentiment evoked is that Senator |
Bayard is the member Of the Senate who is gen. /
orally favored for that Office.
Sergeant Mason.