The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-31
DEATH OF GEN. GRANT.
Gen. Grant Dies at Mount McGrceor,
Calmly, Peacefully and with No
Pangs Of Pain.
All the Members Of the Family Wit
ness the Dissolution of the Hon
ored Husband and Father.
The Nation that He Saved Mourns with
Deep Sincerity the Death of tho
Heroic Soldier.
BY Presidential and Gubernatorial
Proclanlations is the Great Nation
al Bereavement Attested.

BY Presidential and Gubernatorial
Proclanations is the Great Nation
al Bereavement Attestcd.
MOUNT McGnEGoR, July 23.-Gen Grant
lHcathed his last at SOS q m., surrounded
by all the immediate members Of his family
and Dra Sands, Shrady and Douglas Tho
general maintained his consciousness to tho
very last. A few minutes before g o'clock
Dra Douglas. Shrady and Sands stood on tho
cottage veranta, conversing on the condition
Of Gen. Grant. and discussing the probabili-
ties Of his death and the limit Of life left tho
sick man. Mrs Sartoris and Stenographer
Dawson wero convcrsing little distance
away, when Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily
upon the piazza and spoke quietly to tho
phyaicians. He told them he thought the
general was very near to dcntl Tho med
icnl men hastily entered the room where tho
sick man was lying and approached his side.
Instantly upon seeing tho patients face DIR.
Douglas ordered the family to be summoned
TO the bedside. Haste was made, and Mrs
Grant, Mr.. Jesse Grant and wife, U. S Grant,
Jr, and wife and Mrs Col Grant were
quickly beside the doctors ut the sick mans
cot, and Mrs Sartoris and Mr.. Dawson had
followed the doctors in from the piazza, and
the entire family was present
AT THE BEDSIDE
Col Grant sented himself ut tho head Of
tho bed with his left arm resting upon the
pillow above tho head of tho general, who
was breathing rapidly, and with slightly
gasping respirations. Mrs Grant, calm, but
with intense agitation bravcly suppressed,
took scat close by the bedside. She leaned
slightly upon the colonel. resting upon her
right elbow, and gazed, with tear stained
eyes, into tho generals face. She found
there, however, no token of recognition. for
tho sick man was peacefully and painlossly
passing into another life. Mrs Sartoris came
behind her mother. and leaning over her
shoulder, she witnessed tho close of n life In
which sho had constituted n strong element
Of pride Directly behind Mrs Grant and
Mrs. Sart0ris, and n little distance removed.
stood doctors Douglas shrady and Sands
AZ spectators of q closing life their
efforts and counsel had 40 prolonged
On the opposite side of tho he'd from his
mother and directly before her stood jesse
Grant and U. a Grant, Jr. and near the cor
ner of tho cot, on the same side as Jesse and
near to each, was N. Z Dawson, the generals
stenographer and confidential secretary. At
the foot of tho bed, and gazing directly down
into tho generals face was Mrs Col Fred
Grant and Mra U. =. Grant, Jr., and Mrs
Jesse Grant, while somewhat removed from
the family circle, Henry, tho nurse. and
Harrison 1yrell, the generals body servant
were respectively watching the closing life
of their patient, their master DR.. Newman
had repaired to the hotel for breakfast and
was not present Tho generals little grand
children, U. s. Grant, Jr, and Nellie, were
sleeping the sleep of childhood In tho
nursery room above. Otherwise the ell
tire family and household were gath
cred at the bedside of the dying man.
SUMMONED JUST IN TIME.
The members Of the group had been sum-
1nOned not q moment sooner than wns
prudent Tho doctors noted, on entering
the room and pressing to the bedside that
already the purplish tinge which was one of
natures signals Of finnl dissolution had
settled beneath the finger nails. The hand
TINT DR.. Douglas lifted was fast growing
colder than 1t had been through the night
The pulse had fiuttcrcd beyond the point
where tho physician could distinguish it
from the pulse beat in his own finger tips
The respiration WINS very rapid and was n
succession of shallow painting inhalations,
but toward the close they became less laLorcd
and almost noisclcss. This fact was in its
result a comfort to the watchers by tho bed
side to whom was spared the scene of IN
agonizing or otherwise than peaceful
death. Tho wife almost constantly stroked
the face, forehead and hands of the dying
general, and Mt times, as the passionate long
Wing to prevent the event so near would rise
within her, Mrs. Grant pressed both hts
hands ana leaning forward tcnderly kissed
the face of the sinking man. Col. Fred
Grant sa5 silently. but with evident feeling,
though his bearing was that of soldierly
son at the deathbed of q hero father. u. y
Grant. Jr. was deeply moved, but Jesse bore
the scene steadily, and the ladies'. while
watching with wet checks, were silent as
betittcd the dignity of life such as was clos-
ing before them Tho morning had passed
five minutes beyond 3 o'clock and there was
not one OF
THE STRAINED AND WAITING WATCHERS
but who could mark the nearness of the life
tide to its final ebbing. DIR. Douglas noted
the ncarness Of the supreme moment and
quietly approached the bedside and bent
! above 1t, and while he did so the sorrow of
tho gray-haired physician seemed closely
allied with that of the family DR. Shrady
uiSo NIGW ~ hdlS SCSCh JulIiubt.S uLIcE
3 o'clock and the eyes of the general were
closing. His breathing grew more h,lslcd
as the last functions of the heart and lungs
were hastencd to the closing of the cx-presi-
dents life. peaceful expression seemed to
be deepening in the firm and strong-lined
, face, and it was reflected as n closing CONE
fort In tho sud henrts that beat quickly under
the stress of loving suspense. Aminute more
passed and was closing as tho general drewa
deeper breath. There was an cxhalation
like that of one relieved of long and anxious
tension The members Of the group were
tmpelled each TO step nearor tho bed, and
each waited to note the next respiration,
bnt 1t did not come then; 1t never came.
There was absolute stiffness In the room
and o hush Of expectant surprise No sound
broke the silence save the singing of birds In
the pines outside the cottage and the meas
ured breaking of the engine that all night
had awaited by tho little mountain depot
down the slope.
TIE END OF ALI.
st is oil over" quietly spoke d.. Doug
lRa, and then came heavily to each witness
the realization that Gen Grant was dead
Then the doctors withdrew; the nurse
closed tho eyelids and composed tho dead
generals head, after which each of the fam
fly group pressed to the bedside one after
the other and touched their lips upon the
face 30 lately stilled. Dr. Shrndy passed
out upon the piazza, and as he did 80 he met
DR.. Newman hastening up the steps 4IIe is
dead," remarked DR.. shrady quietly. The
fact OF having been absent from the side of
the dying man and his family ut tho Inst
was cause Of sorrow and regret to tho cler-
gyman, who had awaited all night ut tho
cottage He had been summoned from HIS
breakfast moment too late. and reached
the cottage only in time to minister to the
family sorrow and gaze upon tho scarcely
hushcd lips of tho general, to whom DR..
Newman's love had bound him in such close
relations.