Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-20
A SOLEMN TIME
Clasps Of the Dying President.
SobS Of The Wife and Daughter.
Graphic Pen Picture
OF How The Dreaded End Came
OF How The Dreaded End Came.
Especial Telegram to the Globe

Especial Telegram to the Globe.]
ELBERoN, Sept. 20, Z a. m.-Ere this hour
to the civilized world has been announced the
news of President Garfeld's death, which oc-
Cured last night at 1875 by our time
Though not unexpected, his demise was
rather sudden, for the physicians had given
correspondents and others not about the bed
side to understand that the sufferer might
linger day or two longer. From perfect
quiet and comparative confidence, the night
being quiet and uneventful one, the transit
ton to scene of heart-throbbing excitement
came without word of warning.
Ladies and gentlemen were chatting about
the hotels in the usual lstless way. Col
Rockwell had just been over and said every
thing was all right and that he believed the
President would pull through yet. The first
word of warning came when messenger
came flying across the lawn. He said that he
was after some mustard and that the President
was sinking very rapidly. Then the guards
about the cottage were doubled and for ten
minutes there was a narrowing anxiety,
broken by the intelligence that came moment
later that the President was dead.
A messenger went flying for the members
of the cabinet, and few minutes after gal
lopmg horses brought them to the porch of
the Elberon, where General MacVeagh met
them. James, Kirkwood, Window and Hunt
broke through the crowd of correspondents
assembled on the porch, and walked slowly
through the darkness across the lawn to the
Francklyn cottage. mounted orderly cried
out:
"Who goes there!'
And almost as soon as he spoke the officer
in command of the guard cried out, "give
way for the members Of the, cabinet" They
returned separately later, except Gen. Mac
Veagh, who made an official state
ment of the occurrence. They
had but little to say. The shock of the
sudden death appeared to have stunned them.
Mrs. Garfield at last had broken and was weep
ing bitterly and Mrs. Rockwell was with her
while little Lulu Rockwell was with Mollie
Garfield.
~AG Vic buC lcbl0cub Was duQOuQccQ
dead the following persons were in the death
chamber: Drs. Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton,
Mrs. Garfield, Mollie Garfield, COL Rockwell,
Mrs. Rockwell, Gen. Swain, DIR. Boynton,
Lulu Rockwell, J. Stanley Brown, and attend
ants n. L. Atchson, John Richard Lancaster
and Daniel8priggs, the Presidents body SER
want.
At the evening bulletin his condition was
thought a trife more comfortable. There
was feeling of congratulatien on all sides
that he had escaped another rigor which had
been anxiously feared since the chill of the
morning. DR.. Hamilton during the early
evening talked even little hopefully, and the
people about the hotels prepared to retire at
the usual hour, having almost no fears of ill
news before morning. A few of the more
vigilant newspaper correspondents and re-
porters were seated in the waiting room of the
Elberon, interviewing Dr. Boynton, little
before 10 o'clock. He was very conservative,
and expressed but little hope He said that
anything might be expected. As he was
talking messenger came and logged his
arm. He was called away, and returning
after moment, said the President was
sinking very fast. A moment later he dis
appeared. About five minutes later, Warren
Young, one of the executive clerks of the
White House, came out, running, saying:
Cali is over The President is dead ~
This news scattered the crowd of CORES
pondents, who dashed away to the telegraph
offices.
THE MESSAGE TO ARTHUR.
At seven minutes after midnight General
McVeagh came into the Elberon and said to
the group there assembled: "Gentlemen, /
have here a dispatch which l will read to
you"
He then read the dispatch of the cabinet
summouing Vice President Arthur to come
here tomorrow upon the earliest train for the
purpose of taking the oath of Office.
SCENE AT THE DEATH BED.
A privileged visitor who was at the Franck-
Ign cottage, gives very affecting picture of
the scene that occurred in the death chamber.
He says that Mrs. Garfield was seated BY the
side of her husband, where she has been nearly
all the time since his death, and that
she refused to leave him a moment.
She holds her husbands hands, and rubs them
as if she hoped to put some life in them.
Mollie Garfield is leaning upon her fathers
shoulder, while Col. Rockwell and Gen.
Swain remain with them, begging them not
to give way to too mu CHI grief.
Another eyewitness, who was present dur
ing the close of the struggle in the bed
chamber, says there was no scene. Mrs. Gar.
field retained her wonderful composure to
the last. She sat gazing at her husband a