The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-06
Is 1T .siArl CnOLERA.
Death OF Past Grand Master Mason
with All the symptoms pr tho Dis

Death OF Past Grand Master Mason
with All the sympsems or tho Dis
ease.
Philadelphia, June S0-Jsmes Murrow, q
well>known citizen and past grand master
of Masons of Pennsylvania, died at 8 O'Clock
yesterday morning Of 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 Asistic cholera. Mr.. Murrow had pre-
sided curing the week over the annual couu.
Gil of the American Protestant ssso
citation at Wilmington, and 1t was during
the afternoon session of the convention
on Tuesday the fest symptoms Of the fatal
illness we're shown. He returned to the city
At 6 o'clock, accompanied BY many compan>
ions of tho order, who found serious cause
for alarm in the development Of q disease
SO lutte known TO them, and on the arrival
OF the train he was driven with as little delay
rs possible to his b me on Sou b street, above
Thu tenth. DR., q d Mclean, who has
been for meany years the family physician,
came shortly after s o'clock, and 1t need
ed no careful diagnosis TO determine the I'M
usual and fatal character of tire
disease that Was to DO dealt with.
DR.. DaCosta Of Seventh aud
Wall streets, who is deemed
an expert In cases of cholera, was sum
moned in consultation. The purgng ana
vomiting, which had set in early in the
evening, were followed by the peculiar rice
water discharge which 10 the earliest cases
OF Asialic cholera was regarded rs the DIS
lilctlve sign of the disease.
SYMPTOMS OF AsIATIo CHOLERA.
The breathing of the patient was lsbcred
and the pc ser OF artisal,tion entirely gone
while an inoessant twitching 10 tn,
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 tua. the case was an extremely bad typ,
of cholera. assimilsting in its symptom
Asiatic cholera. Such was the plain an
nouncemenl to the bereaved family but nom
of the neighbors we're allowed to know IN
nature Of the disease. Mr.. Murrow cou
not recognize the faces at has bedside atle
10 o'clock in tue evening", two hours sfte
his illness assumed q pronounced charac
tor. Before that. he had 10 his friend
and ply sicians paluiuily gone over all the
he had done during the day. Tn
swollen throat and husky voice, which ar
the invariable attendants of the disease
gradually deprived him of the powe
OF speech, and toward midnigt
when Dr. DaCosta went away, the sole # RI
OF the iemainiDg physician were direcle
toward alleviatrg the SPANS of pain, whic
returned almost momenlsrily. The UTE
prostratlon which came at length brougt
out cold Precipitation over the body, su
, brandy WAS administered in large dose
Hypodermic injections of brandy and au
!, monia were finally maize, bu! with little o
feet The Involuntary twtching of ii
Dlscles continued without cessation, An
a toward morning the sufferer sank to con
atose slate. from which no imuant SCENE
strong enough TO arouse him
Nothing but what has been considered Il
impossibility Of such IN epid mic dises
;, breaking out without cause IN the midst OF
- great ciy prevents me from declaring Il
attack a violent one of Asiatic cholera" sa
DR.. Mclean, IN speaking of the case "Tl
Is fiaal collapse OF the patient toward the end
" unlike that Of any other disease known
10 science"
&c DEATH AFTER EIGHT HOURS SUFFERING.
e The suffering of the patient was intense
: through the night, and toward 5o'clo
in the morning death ensued fro
exh ustion and without al
visible struggle. Aim at befG
the neighborhoOd was aroused in the NOR
II ing small pieces Of black Grape were hung
the windows Of the two.st, ~ brick hou
Is M. 1925 South street, Shopkeepers b
20 residents asked who was des0, and from t
:. friends and relatives the news spread throu
ID the neighborhood with the startling Ii
4. nOuncement OF the first case of cholera
- the season. 1t wss wildly reported Il
Asi tic cholera of the most malignant ty
mad caused death in the midst of I
n .bi ky populatde district. The hou
with its closed shutters and Autteri
IN bits of Grape, was stared at, and perh,
ia little avoided, all through tho day. 7
II ctors said there was no danger, and tow
:" evening the neigh borsHl of whom seemed
n remember the deceased kindly, changed I
w subject Of conversation to the suddenness
% bis death. They had seen him sbou. I
little shoe store which occupies the bssemt
of No. 1926 South street on Tuesday, and /
next day the shop and house bore the sis
of mourning at bis death. Mr.. Murrow '
the right worthy grand master of the Am
lean Protestant association Of the Uni
States, and presided over
On earliest sessions of the grs
- lodge Of that body. Ho had
;lo tanned the lhirty.third dagree in Mason
~ and belonged to The o dfeliows, Knights
Pythias, and Knights Templnr. He y
also a ves,rymsn of All Saihts' Protests
Episcopal church and treasurer Off mum
OF building associations.
Both Of the Attending nh, sicisns speak
a, !ba case as the iuos. violent attack Of ma
!, nsnt cholera that has coIis uu1er their
Ne peri, nee. "Although ogery symnt
e. was that of Asistic choler
said DIR. DsCosta, III should ne,
aastrt t"at the mslady Was that, becs,
there is no proof thst ii was so, and | no,
knew an isolaled instance of the Olsen
w another case should presently follow
s, would be a proof that the first was ce
NJ uine case of Asisiic cholera, II is, howsy
ID an epidemic disease, and il usually broup
- into the country by vessel that is infect
with 1t. The epidemic of 1882 came So"
DR.. Mclean said that u post mortem @
animation would throw no new light on
n case, as the symptom, were In every psrtic
~ lar, even to the body's changing color aft
~ death, those Of Asis,ic ci olera.
q A special meeting OF the Right Worth
r. Grand Lodge of the American Proiesta
N ASSOCIATION WAs held last avoninr ., 81