The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-09-29
SOLEMN SCENES.
A Nation Bath8d in Tears,
Mourning the Loss of Our Be-
loved President.
Removal of the Remains TO Washing-
ton, Who're They are Vowed
by MuItfudes.
Mrs. GarfieId's Sacred HaIf-Hour- The
Queens Tribute.
The Solemn Procession Down PeDnsyl.
vania Avenue.
Departing Cortege.
Mrs. GarfieId's Sacred HaIf-Hour- The
Queens Tribute.
The Solemn Procession Down PeDnsyl
vania Avenue.
stout Hearts Cry Out i'm agony Over the
Departing Cortege.

The death Of President Garfield is deeply
mourned by all nations. Says the Pail Mall
Gazette "There is scarcely one Englishman
in 1000 who has not read the news of the
death of President Garfield with regret as real
and as deep as if he had been a ruler of our
own. communion Of sorrow unites the
ocean-sundered members of the English race
to-day more closely than it has ever been
united since 1776." The London EUeaing
Standard says: "The deep grief is shown by
all the English speaking population" Says the
London Globe "Grief is nowhere more poig-
nant than in England, and it is intended to
hire one of the largest and most important
halls in London for a demonstration of SYM
pathy." Says the London Times "The death
of President Garfield is regarded as hardly less
than a national calamity. In all ranks, from
the Queen to the peasant, there is a most
heartfelt sympathy for the bereaved widow and
injured nation. The career Of President Gar
field is of kind which appeals to the best
feelings and most cherished traditions of our
people"
The news OF the Presidents death was
broken to his aged mother by Mrs. Larabee,
her daughter, and Ellen, her granddaughter.
The following is related: "Grandma," said
Ellen, "would you be surprised to get bad
news this morning?" "Why, II don't
know" said the old lady. "Well, 1
shouldn't" said Mrs. Larabee. 81 have
been fearing and expecting it all morning."
"Grandma," said Ellen, "there is bad news'
ais he dead ?" asked the old lady, tremulously.
"He is" The quick tears started in the sensi-
tive eyes. There was a violent paroxysm Of
grief. No expression Of frenzy told of the
anguish within. "Is it true?' she asked
(with trembling hps) "Then the Lord
help me, for If he is dead what shall l do ?'
She was rendered weak and little nervous by
the announcement, and was obliged once or
twice to repair to her room, where, in
the solitude, she might begin to comprehend
the awful truth, but she was not contented to
remain there, and soon retured to the
sittiDg-room. About half past o'clock Mrs.
Garfield was found sitting in a rocking chair
waiting for news. The morning paper she
read with eagerness. at can not be that
James is dead" she murmured. "I can not
understand it. have no further wish to live.
can not live if it is So"
The statement that the ball was found in the
region of the heart has been verified, and it is
stated on authority that the Developments of
the autopsy prove that death was inevitable
and the Presidents life was only sustained by
the most excellent nourishing and constant
care.
The following official bulletin was prepared
by the surgeons who have been in attendance
upon the late President:
by previous arrangement the post-mortem
examination Of the body of President Gar
field was made in the presence and
with the assistance of Drs. Hamilton, Agnew,
Bliss, Barnes, woodu ard, Reyburn, Andrew H.
Smith, Of Elberon, and Acting Assistant Sur
geon d. s. Lamb, of the Army Medical Museum,
Washington. The operation was performed
by DIR. Lamb. 1t was found that the ball,
after fracturing the eleventh rib, had passed
| through the spinal column, in front of the
spinal canal, fracturing the body of the first
| lumbar vertebrR, driving a number of small
fragments of bone into the adjacent soft parts,
and lodging Just below the pancreas, about two
| inches and q half to the left of the spine nd
| behind the peritoneum, where it had become
completely encysted. The immediate cause OF
death was secondary hemorrhage from one OF
the mesenteric arteries adjoining the track OF
the ball, the blood rupturing the peritoneum,
and nearly q pint escaping into the abb
dominal cavity. This hemorThage is believed
to have bcen the cause of the severe pain in
the lower part of the chest complained of just
before death. An abscess cavity, six inches by
| Tour IN dimensions. was fOund In the vicinity
| of the gall bladder, between the liver and the
transverse colon, which were strongly inter-
adherent. 1t did not involve the substance OF
the liver, and no communication was found
between it and the wound. Along suppurating
channel extended from the external wound
between the lion muscles and right kidney, al
most to the right groin. The channel, nov
known to be due to the burrowing Of the
pus from tie wound, was supposed during
| life TO have been the track of the ball. On ex
animation of the organs of the chest, evi
dences of severe bronchitis were found on botf
sides, with bronchial pneumonia of the lowe
portions of the right lung, and, though to mucf
less extent, of the left. The lungs contained
no abscesses and the heart no clots. The live
was enlarged and fatty but free from abscesses
nor were any found in any other organ excep
the left kidney, which contained near its surface
q small abscess about one-third of an inch il
diameter. In reviewing the history of the cas-
in connection with the autopsy it is quite evi
dent that the different suppurating surfaces
and especially the fractured spongy tissue o
the vertebra furnish sufficient explanation o
septic condition which existed.
tSignedl d. W. BLISS,
| J. J. WOODWARD,
FRANK H. HAMILTON,
ANDREW H. SMITH,
| J. X. BARNES,
ROBERT REYBURN,
ID. HAYES AGNEw.
d. s. LANE.