The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-09-22
THE LAST NOM ENTS.
a Pail Covers lGlbcron--Thc Sutltlenncss Of
tho Prosidcnt's Death.

THE LAST MOMENTS.
, Pnll Covers ElbcrOn--Thc SudIenncss of
tho Pr"sitlCnt's Death.
tSpcciat Dispatch to Tho News ana Courier |
Lone BRANCH, N.J., September l9.--
The gloom which has been growing
over Elbcron for tho last three DAYS
has settled into n pail. 1t is the pail
hat covers coffin. The President is
dead. The Garfield administration
has drawn to Il close. The end was
short, swift and vivid.
~ few minutes before the end came a
messenger rushed across TO the 1Glbcron
Hotel and fairly startled the gathered
reporters with tho shout: "rhc Prcsi-
dcnt is sinking rapidly!"
The crowd scarcely recovered from
their shock before there was grand
rush across the lawn and over the
piaZZuS, Il rush that drowned the roar
Of tho occo III and made the hair stand
on end ."TliC President is drad," was
the cry.
There was clamoring for carriages
and rush of. wheels, and up the road
toward Elbcron went the news. The
horses fairly flew over the road, and
when tie carli .ycs dashed I'D to tho
West End Hotel it needed nothing Lc-
yond the blancl,cd faces of tic c,rre-
spondcnts to tell the terrible story.
There was nobody with the prcsi-
dent ut the beginning Of the attack,
which was rigor of the heart, but Gen.
Swain and DR.. Boyntun. They quick
~ sent for the Doctors who were in tho
surgeons cottage, but when they came
the President was already unconscious.
Tie recognized nobody and within a
few minutes he was dcud.
The Cabinet is lloW in session. ..s...
Tie scene ut EIbcron battles de-
scriVtion. Acknowledgement MacNeagh
sits ut the table surrounded hv thirty
or more correspondents, debating the
last scene in Francklvn Cottage.
Everything is silent rs the grave. Men
creep in and out as il the dead body of
the President lay in the same roam.
The guards Of soldiers arc increased
and mounted armed men picket the
approaches to the cottage, where the
Presidents body lies III the midst of
his grict-strit ken family. We turn
away with the Nation, and respect their
sorrow for the President.
a History of the Lns. Day.
On Sunday night the President had a
chill LASTING fifteen minutes. At eight
o'clock on Monday morning 4 second
chill occurred and was quito severe,
the pulse reaching one hundred and
forty-lhrnc beats and very feeble.
In conversation with a representa-
tive of tho Associated Press DR.. Bliss
briefly summed up the situation as
decidedly critical. lie said there was
no doubt that the rigors were the result
OF extended complications in the right
lung, aided Of course by the exhausted
condition Of the President, which has
been caused by blood poisoning. lie
further said IL was quite possible that
if tho rigors continue to occur for the
next half hour the President might be
carried away in one of them. 1t is now
agreed by all tho attending surgeons
that tho rigors arc The results of lung
troubles and the py1mic condition Of
the patients blood.
Acknowledgement MacVcagh says
81 sent my dispatch to Minister
Lowell ut 10 y. m. Shortly before that
DR.. Bliss had seen the President and
found his pulse at log beats per min
ute, and all the conditions were then
promising quiet night"
The Doctor asked the President if lie
| V,
The President answered "Not at all''
and shortly afterwards fell lccp and
DR.. Bliss returned to his room, across
the hall from that occupied by the
President. Coils. Swain and Rockwell
remained with the President.
About fifteen minutes after 10 o'clock
tho President awakened and remarked
to Col. Swain that he was suffering
great pain, and placed his hand over
his heart. DR.. Bliss was summoned
and when ho entered the room Inc
found the President substantially with.
ont pulse and action Of tho heart, or
This was almost undistinguishable. lie
said ut once that tho President was
dying, and directed at once that Mrs.
Garfield be called, also tho doctors
The President remained in q dying
candiiion until 1898, when hc was
pronounced dead. lie died of some
trouble Of tho heart, supposed to be
neuralgia.