Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-21
THE NATIONS LOSS.
Death of President James Abram
Garfield.
The Final Scenes at the Bedside Sad
and SOrrOWful.

New YORK, September ia Long
Branch dispatch says: The President
died at 1895 tonight. At the evening
bulletin his condition was thought trife
more comfortable. There was a feeling
of congratulation on all sides that be had
escaped another rigor, which had been
anxiously feared since the chill of the
morning. DR.. Boynton during the early
evening talked even little hopefully,
and people about the hotels prepared to
retire at the usual hour, having almost
no fear of any serious change before
morning. At 10 o'clock Secretary
Browns cottage was dark and deserted.
A few of the more vigilant newspaper
men sat talking on the Elberon piazza.
DR.. Boynton was among them. At
1920 a colored messenger called DR..
BoYnton out in the dark and whis-
pered to him excitedly. The doctor
turned back to the groups of reporters,
'sThe President is sinking rapidly" he
said, and disappearedin the gloom across
the lawn towards the President cottage.
There was hurrying about the house
and word was quickly sent to the end of
Long Branch that the President was
greatly worse. At 1870 Capt. Ingalls,
came across from the cottage slowly, as
if nothing was wrong, and when ques-
toned, answered very quietly: 81 was
just sent for by an officer of the guard to
send one of my men to the camp
surgeon for a mustard plaster for appli-
cation to the Presidents body" The
reporters went out on the lawn as far as
the guard lines to wait for tidings. The
report that mustard had been sent
for pointed to the occurrence of
another rigor. A voice was heard
saying: cit is all over; the Presi-
dent is dead" It was Warren
Young, one of the secretaries, who
spoke. La an instant the little telegraph
office in Elberon Hotel was surrounded
and there was a shower of bulletins
thrown on the two paralyzed operators.
No more than the simple announcement
of death could be sent off, as the govern
ment at once took exclusive use of the
telegraph Office at ElberOn. No per-
sonal dispatches were sent. Warren
Young sent the first official announce
ment eff to Washington and to Mentor.
hour when at Ill Window, Hunt and
went into the hotel Office and were met
by MacVeagh, who led them away to the
cottage. The Presidents words when he
felt the death pang attack him were:
g. am suffering great pain, and I fear
the end is near.
THE CAUSE OF DEATH.
LONG BRANCH, September 2O-1 A. NJ
Previous to bis death the only words
spoken by the President were that he
had a severe pain in his heart. It is
supposed by surgeons that death was
occasioned by clot of blood forming in
the heart. DR.. Bliss was the first one
notified of the Presidents expression Of
pain, and upon entering the room he at
once saw the end was near. Members
of the family were Immediately sum-
moned to the bedside. All arrived and
perfect quiet prevailed. Mrs. Garfield
tude and exhibited unprecedented cour-
age. She gave way to no paroxysms
of grief and after death became
evident she quietly withdrew to
her own room. There she sat a
heart-stricken widow, full of grief, but
with too much courage to exhibit it to
those around her. She was laboring I'M
der terrible strain and despite hero
efforts tears flowed from her eyes and
her lips became drawn by her noble at
tempt to bear the burden with which she
had been afflicted. Miss Mollie was
greatly affected and bursts of tears
flowed from the chiid's eyes notwith-
standing her noble effort to follow the
example of her mother
The death scene was one never to be
forgotten. Perfect quiet prevailed and
there was not murmur heard
while the President was sink
ing. After death had been pro-
nounced the body was properly ar
ranged by DR.. Boynton. kilograms
were Immediately sent to the Presidents
mother in Ohio and to the sons Harry
and James who sre now at Williams Col
lege, as also to Vice President Arthur
and other prominent public men. Mr..
Morris, the undertaken of the village.
will be in charge of the remains. Eugene
Buttan, coroner Of Monmouth County,
will hold an inquest over the body of the
late President. He has as yet made no
arrangements for the inquest and as far
as can be ascertained he has not been
| QOt1Hed OF the PRESIDENT death.
CLOSING HOURS. q
New YORK, September ia Tele-
gram extra says: At the Presidents
bedside, holding his poor, emaciated
hand In her own and watching with an
guish unutterable the fast vanishing
threads of life, sat the faithful, devoted
wife during the closing hours of the
Presidents career. Around him were
other weeping friends, and physicians
lamenting their powerlessness in the
presence OF the dark angel of death.
Toward the last the mind of the sufferer
wandered. He was once more back in
Mentor, amid those scenes where the
happiest hours of his life we're spent.
He sat in the dear old home again, with
his loved ones around hint aged
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