The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-30
GENERAL GRANT DEAD.
The Great Soldier Finally Claimed
by Death.
The Closing Scene at Mount McGregor-
The Family Gathered at His Bedside
The Presidents Proclamation and
Letter of Coincidence.

Mt. McGREGoR. JIly %, sos a. H.
General Grant died at SOS a NJ, surround,
ed by all his family. He passed out of life
peacefully and without evident pain. Be
fore bis death he left the choice of burial
spot to Colonel Fred d. Grant
THE WAY HE DIED.
MT. MCGREGoR, July 23.-Shortly be.
fore eight O'Clock this morning, while the
family were preparing for breakfast and
the doctors were discussing the patients
chances on the piazza of the cottage, Henry,
the nurse, who was with the General,
stepped hurriedly out of the sick room,
and going to where the doctors were, in
formed them that he thought the end wa,
near. The doctors hastily went to the room.
At glance they took in the situation.
They quietly ordered the nurse to
summon the family at once.
Mrs. Grant, Jesse Grant and wife,
U. S. Grant, Jr., and wife, and Mrs. ColOne;
Grant instantly answered the summons.
Mrs. Sartoris, noticing the doctors hurried
ly going to the room, followed them, and
was the first member of the family present
Colonel Fred was now the only member OF
the family absent, having strolled around
the grounds.
The servants were sent in search of him
but he entered the sick room before any one
succeeded in bringing him the news of his
fathers approaching dissolution. Colonel
Grant took seat at the right side of the
bed, placing his left arm ON the
pillow above his fathers head.
Close by the bedside sat Mrs. Grant, in
tensely agitated but bravely suppressing
her emotions and striving to be calm. She
leaned upon the bed with her elbow, and
gaZed with eyes blinded with tears into the
Generals face. There was, however, no
sign of recognition on his pallid face.
He was breathing fast with slight
gasping respiratiOnS. Mrs. SartOris leaned
on the shoulder of her mother and witnessed
with pent-up emotion the ebb of life i'll
which she had constituted the element of
pride. The scene was a quiet One and the
General passed peacefully, painleSsly into
another world. A little distance behind Mrs.
Grant and Mrs. Sartorls stood the three ply
sicians, Douglas, Shrady and Sands, silent
spectators of the scene which but for their eff
forts would doubtless have occurred months
ago. Jesse Grant and U. S. Grant, Jr.,
stood opposite their mother at the other
side of the bed, near the foot of the cot.
Close by Jesse was y. f. Dawson, the
Generals confidential secretary and stem
ographer. At the foot of the bed
stood Mrs. L. S. Grant, Jr., by her side was
Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant and Mrs. Jesse
Grant. These three gaZed down into the
face of the General, while their eyes
became sufTused with tears. Thus sur
rounded died the hero.
HIS LAST WORDS
MOUNT MCGREGOR, July cas- far as
is known, the last words uttered by the
General were a request for glass of water
at three o'clock.
CLEVELAND'S CONDOLENCE.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-The following
telegram was sent early this morning:
WASHINGTON, July 23.-TO Mrs. I. S.
Grant, Mt McGregOr: Accept this eX-
preston of my heartfelt sympathy at this
hour of your great affiictiOn. The people
of the nation mourn with you, and would
reach if they could, with kindly comfort,
the depths OF sorrow which is yours alone,
and which only the pity of God alone can
heal.
ISigned1 GROVER CLEVELAND.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.
WASHINGTON, July 23.-The President,
a few minutes past eleven o'clock this
morning issued the following proclamation:
BY the President of the United States.
4 proclamation: The President of
the United States has just received the sad
tidings of the death of that illuStriOus
citizen and eX-PreSidenC of the United
States, General Ulysses S. Grant, at Mt.
McGregor, in New York, to which place he
had lately been removed in an endeavOr to
L.,
nouncement to the people of the United
States the President is impressed with that
magnitude, of the public loss of the great
public leader who was in the hour of vic
tory magnanimOus, amid disaster serene and
self-sustained and who in every station,
whether as soldier or chief magistrate,
twice called to power by his fellow cOun-
trymen, trOd unswervingly the pathway OF
duty undeterred by doubts.
The country has witnessed with deep
emotion his prolonged and patient struggle |
with a painful disease, and has watched |
by his couch of suffering with tear
full sympathy. The destined end |
has come at last. His spirit |
has retired TO the Creator who sent it forth. |
The great heart of the Nation that followed !
him, when living, with love and |
pride, bows now in sorrow above /
him dead, tenderly mindful OF his /
virtues and great patriotic services. In |
testimony of respect to the memory of |
Grant, it is ordered that the Executive Man.
sion and departments at Washington be |
draped in mourning for a period of thirty |
days, and all public business shall on the
day of his funeral be suspended. The Sec
retary of War and Navy will cause orders
to be issued for appropriate military ser
vices at his funeral.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
T. F. BAYARD, Secretary of State.
HIS PROBABLE SEPULTURE.
Mt. MCGREGoR, July 23.-The cottage
where the last few days of the cOuntry's
hero. General Grant, have been passed, is
surrounded with dense crowds, most OF
whom have come from miles about to see
the body of him whom they worshiped as
a hero during his life time. Colonel Fred
Grant Drs. Shrady, Douglas and Sands
have been in consultation this morning as
to the best place of burial. 1t is now be-
lieved that the little mound on the ground
of the Soldiers Home, near Washington,
will be selected. The body of the dead
General will be taken to New York and
will lie in state there.
1t has been very truly said that
when an editor makes a mistake in his