The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-07

Last Hours of Great Man Who for Ion
Months Suffered tho A0onics of Disease
Inoreasin0 Weakness Witch BetoAene
Rapid Dissolution.
Gen. Grant, as has already been an
nounced, died at Mt. McGregor on tn
morning OF the 23d. A dispatch from tina
place, dated the Gath, gives the following
account OF the closing hours in the life OF {
man who has been honored as no one wa.
ever honored before, and the progress o
whose disease the nation had watched fol
months with the deepest solicitude:
The use OF hot applications to keep
warmth in Gen. Grants extremities and
vital parts we're resorted to early last
night. They were OF some avail, but artifi
cial warmth was without power to reach
the course or stay the results OF dissolu-
ton which began on Tuesday evening and
had been progressing steadily, though grad
ually. Hypodermics OF brandy were ire
quently given to stimulate the tagging
physical powers, but later this failed to
affect the patient, whose vitality and
whose physical forces were 80 far spent as
| to furnish no footing for q rebound. In
deed, the efforts OF the medical men were
being made because none could stand by
inactive and without the trial OF an expe-
dent that might prolong life an hour or
minute. The physicians believed the pa
tient might reach the extreme ebb OF his
strength at 1 o'clock this morning and the
approach OF that hour was anticipated
with intense anxiety at the cottage. 1t
passed, however, and the general, lying
upon his back and propped by two pillows,
lay upon the cot bed in the parlor and was
vet living though growing weaker. The in
svitable close OF the generals long sickness
seemed more and more imminent. The
feeble pulse-beats had worn themselves by
their rapidity to a futtering throb that
could not be gagged beneath the fingers OF
the physicians. His body was being worn
out by it's own life currents, so rapidly was
it coursing through the veins. Repeatedly
brandy was injected beneath the skin OF
the generals arm, but despite its warming
influence the respiration had quick
ened from A to the minute dur
ing the evening to a point OF labored
breathing that was painful to the friends
who grouped and bent near the sick man.
Two O'Clock had been passed and the evil
dences OF death were multiplying. The in
creasing respirations were not alone more
rapid, but more shallow. The lungs and
heart were giving away, so weak had the
general grown at . O'Clock that though
he frequently attempted to do SO,
ne was unable any longer to
clear the gathering mucus from his throat.
It accumulated and remained and as 4
o'clock drew on and the daylight came a
point had been reached when expectora-
ion was impossible. There was not left |
,nough strength and from o'clock on |
here was in the throat the significant rat |
lie Of mucus that was filling the lung and |
logging the throat. At 8 o'clock the gem
raj asked for water and after that it is
lot remembered that he uttered any word.
The respiration had reached sixty and be-
ween 5 and o'clock the finger nails had
ecome blue and the hand further evil
enced the progress OF numbness at the
1tremities and at every breath the mucun
logging in the throat was growing more
oticeable.
A few minutes before O'Clock Drs. Doug
Is, Shrady and Sands stood on the cot
age veranda conversing on the condition
I Gen. Grant and discussing the proba-
ilities OF his death and limit OF life left the
ok man. Mrs. Sartoris and Stenographer
awson were conversing a little distance
way when Henry, the nurse, stepped
astily upon the piazza and spoke quietly
, the physicians. He told them he
fought the general very near his death.
he medical men hastily entered the room
here the sick man was lying and APP
reached his side. Instantly, upon scan
ng the patients face, DR.. Douglas ordered
e family to be summoned to the bedside.
RS Grant, Mr.. Jesse Grant and wife, u. !;
Grant, Jr., and wife and Mrs. COL Grant :
ere quickly beside the doctors and at the :
ck mans cot Mrs. Sartoris had followed =
e doctors in and the whole family was q
esent except Col. Fred Grant. A hasty :
mmons was sent him, but he entered the :
* room while the messenger was search i
. for him. The colonel seated himself at
e head OF the bed with his left arm rest
. on the pillow above the head OF the
neral, who was breathing rapidly with
ghtly gasping respirations. Mrs. Grant, @
ayeiy suppressing her agitation, took o
at close by the bedside. She leaned
Chilly upon the cot and gazed with tear
nded eyes into the generals face. She &c
ind there, however, no token OF recogni- -,
IN. for the sick man was peacefully and ~
inlessly passing away. Mrs. Sartoris
me behind her mother and, leaning over
r shoulder, witnessed the close OF a life in Il
ich she had constituted a strong element -,
pride. Directly behind Mrs. Grant and "'
3. Sartoris. and a little removed, were m
s. Douglas, Shrady and Sands. On the IL
1er side OF the bed and opposite the ef
,ther stood Jesse Grant and U. S. Grant, a,
Near the corner OF the cot and on the n,
ne side as Jesse, stood Dawson, the gen. IL
rs stenographer and confidential secre- w
". At the foot of the bed. and gazing OF
ectly down into the generals face stood OF
8. Fred Grant, Mrs U. S. Grant, Jr., ca
i Mrs. Jesse Grant while somewhat re- fu
we'd from the family circle Henry. the DC
rse and Harrison, the generals body Re
want. were watching the close oil the life SO
heir master. Dr. Newman had repaired eo
the hotel for breakfast and was not DC
sent, and the generals grandchildren wi
re asleep in the nursery room above al
nerwise the entire family and house co
d were gathered at the man tn
n. The group had been sum- In
ned not a moment sooner than Gr
, prudent for the doctors noticed that fol
entering the room purplish tinge, an wi
Incing final dissolution had appeared us
cath the finger nails, and the hand ma
CHI DR.. Douglas lifted vas fast growing tn
and the pulse had fiuttered beyond SO
point where the physician could dis of
,uish the pulse beats by his own finger. ali
respiration was very rapid and there an
a succession OF shallow painting in the trf
b,,+ ba throat eaemed tn no. | ~