Evening star., 1885-07-23
GEN. GRANT DEAD.
HE SUCCUMBS AT LAST TO
THE DREAD ENEMY.
HE PASSES QUIETLY AWAY
THIS MORNING.
SCENES AROUND THE DEATH BED ON
MOUNT MCGREG0R.

AAVON4 AAVNAI0NON
Arrival of the Doctors and U. 8. Grant.
Jr.
MT. Nc GREGoR, July 22-Drs. Sands and
Shrady have just arrived by special train,
which also brought u. s. Grant, jr., and his
wife. No special change has occurred since the
last dispatch.
A singular occurrence has just been related
by DIR. Newman as having occurred in the cot
tage at l o'clock. At five minutes of 1 the
general asked the hour of the day. ''One
o oclock," spoke one of those near the general.
Soon afterwards the cottage clock chimed
twelve strikes, and the general counted them.
Then he wrote on his pad that he observed the
clock was wrong, and indicated q desire TO have
1t struck to the right hour, which was done, and
this incident passed as one more of the remark
able episodes of the generals later sickness.
There has been q recurrence of hiccOughs to-
day.
Consultation Of the Doctors.
MOUNT MCGREGoR, p. m.-The physicians
met at once with DR.. Douglas in consultation.
Having left the cottage it wa Stated that Drs-
Shrady and Sands had found Gen. Grant in the
critically low condition already stated by DR..
Douglas and already announced in these dis
patches. No one Of the staff Is willing to make
any prediction beyond twenty-four hours,
which period it is deemed possible the general
may survive, though the probabilities, as now
indicated, are that a less space OF time marks
the limit of the generals life. A change for the
worse is anticipated as the day closes. The
pulse is now over 100.
At 2:15 o'clock the members Of the family
and DR.. Newman were grouped in the darkened
room near Gen. Grant. Observing their evil
dences of feeling, the general said: II do not
want anybody to be distressed on my account"
The Patients Pulse Very High.
MOUNT MCGREGoR July 22-5 p. m.--The
pulse is said, unofficially, TO have been 13O
within an hour past. There is no marked
change since four o'clock.
His Strength Ebbing Away as the Day
Closes.
MOUNT McGKEGoR, July 22-7 D. m.-Gen.
Grant is rapidly sinking.
TIL LONG STRUGGLE OVER.
Gen. Grant at Last Yields to the Fell
Destroyer.
Mt. MCGREGOR, July 23.-Geu. Grant quietly
breathed his last at o clock this morning.
about the Old hero chair, and teariully watched
the end.
THE CLOSING SCENES.
MT. MCGREGoR, July 23-Late yesterday
afternoon there was a marked increase in
the weakness of Gen. Grant Between
and o'clock the pulse at times was so feeble
and rapid that it could not be counted. Every
symptom indicated the slow approach of the
end. SO the evening wore away and midnight
was reached. After that hour the chill in the
which had been noticed for some
time, was found to be rapidly increasing, and
the use OF hot applications to keep warmth in
the extremities and vital parts were resorted
warmth was without power to reach the cause
or stay the results Of dissolution, which began
Tuesday evening, and had been progressing
steadily though gradually.
Hypodemics of brandy were frequently given
to stimulate the tagging physical powers, but
later these failed to affect the patient, whose
vitality and physical forces were so far spent as
to promise no footing for rebound. The physi-
clans believed that the patient might reach the
extreme ebb of his strength at o'clock this
and the approach of the hour was an
ticipated with intense anxiety. It passed, how
ever, and the general, laying upon his back on
the cot bed in the parlor, was yet living. The
feeble pulse beats had worn themselves Dy their
rapidity to fluttering throb that could not be
gagged beneath the finger of the physician
the brandy was entered beneath the
skin Of the generals arm, but despite its wan
ing infuence,t he respirations had quickened
from Al to the minute during the evening to a
point Of labored breathing that was painful to
friends who grouped near the sick man. The
increasing respirations were not alone more
rapid, but more shallow. The lungs and the
heart were giving away. 50 weak had Gen.
Grant grown at o'clock that, though he fire.
quently attempted to doze, he was unable any
longer to clear the gathering mucous from his
throat
From four o'clock on there was in the throat
the significant rattle of mucous that was filling
the lungs and clogging the throat. At o'clock
the general asked for water, and after that it is
not remembered that he uttered any word. At
O'Clock, breathing was Quickened and reached
fifty to the minute. An hour later the respira-
tions had reached sixty, and between five and
six o'clock the finger nails had become blue
and the hands further evidenced the progress
of numbness at tho extremities, and at every
breath the mucous clogging in the throat was
growing noticeable.
GEN. GRANT DEAD.
Passing Away Peacefully without Any
Evidence Of Pain.
MOUNT MCCREGoR TpIX, 90 faonaraI