The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-07
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DEATH Of Past GraDd Iastcr MASON
with All the symptoms OF tho Dis

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Death Of n Past Grand saster MASON
win All the symptoms or tho Dis
ease.
Philadelphia, June 80 james Murrow, q
wel,known citizen and past grand master
Of Mssons OF Pennsylvania, died at o'clock
yesterday morning of a malignant form of
cholera, which in its development, lasting
scarcely eight hours, betrayed all the symp-
toms of the most contagious and fatal type
of Asiatic cholera. Mr.. Murrow Rad pre-.
sided during the week over the annual coun-
Gil of the American Protestant ssso
citation ut Wilmington, and it was during
the afternoon session of the convention
on Tuesday the first symptoms of the fatal
illness we're shown. He returned to the city
at 6 o'clock, accompanied by many compsn,
ions of the order, who found serious cause
for alarm in the development Of u disease
80 little known to them, and on the arrival
of the train he WAS driven with as little delay
az possible to bis me on Sou h street. above
Thi tenth. DR.. Fl D. Mclean, who has
been for meany years the family physician,
came shortly after 8 o'clock, and 1t need.
ed no careful diagnosis TO determine the un-
usual and fatal character of the
disease that was to be dealt with.
DR.. DaCosta Of Seventh and
Wall streets, who il deemed
an expert 10 cases of cholera, was sum
moned IN consultation. The purging and
voB, tlng, which had set in early in the
lag, were followed by the peculiar rice
N~.'c discharge which in the earliest cases
O, iiatic cholera was regarded rs the dis
Il Ave sign of the disease.
SYMPTOMS OF AsIATIc CHOLERA.
The breathing of the patient was iabored
and the pc aer Of articulation entirely gone,
while an incessant twitching in the
muscles of the limbs was the only
evidence, at times, of prolonged con,
seriousness. The exact verdict of the physi-
clans then agreed to, and since main tanned,
was that the case WAS an extremely bsd type
of cholera. assimiating in its symptoms
Asstic cholera. Such was the plain an
nouncement to the beresved family, but none
of the neghbors were allowed to know the
nature of the disease. NJ. Murrow could
not recognize the fscss at has bedside after
10 O'Clock in the evening" two hours after
bis illness assumed a pronounced charac-
ter. Before that. he had 10 his friends
and physicians painfully gone over all that
be had done during the day. The
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the invariable attendants of the disease.
of speech, and to ward midnight
when Dr. DaCosta went away, the sole ffJrls
of the remaining physician were directed
toward alleviate g the sps,ms of pain, which
returned almost momentarily. The utter
prostratlon which came at lsngth brought
out cold Precipitation over the body, and
brandy was administered in large doses.
Hypodermic injections Of brandy and ana
monis were finally maoe, but with little eff
feet. The involuntary twitchiDg Of the
muscles continued without cessation, and
toward morning the sufferer sank to com
atose state, from which no imulant seemed
strong enough to arouse HIM.
"N0tnng but what has been considered the
impossibility of such en- epid mic disease
breaking out without cause In the midst OF q
great city prevents me from declaring the
attack violent one of Asistic cholera," said
DIR. McLsan, IN speaking of the case 'The
f lsl collapse of the patient toward the end Is
unlike that of any other disease known to
science"
| DEATH AFTER EIGHT HOURS SUFFERING.
The suffering of the patient was intense all
through the night, and toward o'clock
in the morning death ensued from
exh ustion and without any
| vlsible- struggle. Almost before
the neighborhood was aroused in the morn
ing small pieces of black CT were hung at
the windows Of the two -sLIry brick hous~
No. 1926 South street. Shopkeepers and
residents asked who WAS dead, and from tn.
friends and relatives the news spread through
the Deghborhoud with the startling an-
nouncement of the first case of cholera OF
the season. 1t WAS wildly reported tina,
Asi tic cholera of the most malignant type
nad caused death in the midst of this |
thickly- populatde district. The house, |
with its closed shutters and huttering |
bits of Grape, was stared at, and perhaps |
\ little avoided, all through the day. The |
doctors said there was no danger, and toward |
evening the neighbors,all of whom seemed to |
remember the deceased kindly, changed the |
.ubiect of conversation 10 the suddenness #
his death. They had seen him about the |
little shoe store which occupies the basement |
of No. 1926 South street on Tuesday, and the |
next day Ine snOp ana mouse onre the sig s |
Of mourning at bis death. Mr.. Murrow was
the right worthy grand master of the Amer
lean Protestant association of the United
States, and presided over the
earliest sessions of tho grand |
lodge of that body. He had at
tanned the thirty-third d gree in Masonry
and belonged to The o dfrllows, Knights 81
Pythiss, and Knights Templar. Ho was
slso q vestryman Of All Saints Protestant
Episcopal church and treasurer Of n number |
of building associations.
Both OF the attending hysicians speak of
the case as the most violent attack Of malig- |
nant cholera that has come under their ex>
perience. although every symptom
was that of Asiatic cholera"
ssid Dr. DsCoEla. II should never
assert tat tho malsdy was thst because
there IL no proof that It wass 50, aud l never
knew an isolaled insta=ce of the disssse.
| another case should presently follow IL
you'd DO proof that the fret was gen
uine csse Of Asiaiic cholers. IL is, however,
an epidemic disease, and !, usually brought
into the cou1try by vessel ihzi Is infected
with il. The epidemic of 1892 csme 90"
Or. Mclean said that pOst-m0rtem ex,
animation would throw no new light on the
csse, ss the symptoms " re 10 every pzrticu
lar even 20 the bo1y's changing color sitter Il