Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-28
EASTERN NEWS.
DEATH OF GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN.
A Shock Of Great Surprise to His
Friends and the Country.
TINE GRIEF or MRS. LOGAN AND HER Chill
DREa PlTIFUL IN the EXTREME.
General Sheridan Pays a High Tribute to
the Warrior and Statesman.
NO ARRANGEMENTS HAVE YET BEEN
MADE FOR THE FUNERAL.
The Presidents Present Attack Not 50
Serious as the First.
TspRcIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Death of GEN. John A. Logan.

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Logan diediat three minutes before 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Ills
| death, which came with startling sud-
denness to his family and friends, had
not been unexpected by his physicians
for some days. A lurking tendency to
brain complication, which has been
present in a greater or less degree,
and constantly increasing in severity
during his entire illness, had prepared
them to expect the worst. The rack
| ing pains which he suffered during the
early days of his illness yielded to
treatment, but left him in a weak and
exhausted condition from which he
never rallied, and upon which fever
preyed with increasing violence until
| the hour of his death. After last mid
night his pulse grew weaker and
weaker, and at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning his condition was such as to
cause great fear for his immediate
death. After this he rallied some
what, and at a consultation which was
held at 8 o'clock his pulse was found
to be somewhat stronger, but his gen
eral condition was not such as to give
any hope of ultimate recovery. DIR.
Baxter relieved DIR. Hamilton at the
conclusion OF the consultation, and con-
tinued in constant attendance until
the Generals death. The physicians
again met in consultation at 30 F. NJ,
when it was apparent that the patient
was rapidly sinking and could live but
afew hours. At 2 o'clock the General
revived sufficient to recognize his wife,
who had been at his bedside night and
day during his entire illness. AS she
spoke to him he looked up into her
face, and all who were present knew
that he recognized her. This was the
last manifestation OF consciousness.
He then YEARLY closed his eyes and
sank again into a lethargic sleep, from
which he never awoke.
While the public has been aware
for a week or more that General Logan
was confined to his room with rheu-
matism, many, even of his most in
innate friends, were as late as yester-
day afternoon unsuspicious of the
serious character of the attack, and
to the masses the announcement in
this mornings papers that the states
man lay at deaths door, brought a
shock OF sorrowful surprise. All day
long the carriages of sympathetic
callers have occupied the space in
front of Calumet Place, while hun
dreds OF pedestrians OF all walks in
life have climbed the hill upon which
the Logan mansion stands, to ask If it
were true that all hope was past. AT
5 minutes before 3 o'clock DIR. Baxter
came out of the sick room and said to
one who was waiting for intelligence,
"Simply say he is dying" Then
the voice of prayer at the bedside rose
above the sobs Of the stricken mourn
ers, and with its end ended the life Of
the warrior and statesman.
Among those at the bedside of
the dying man were Senator,
and Mrs. McCullom and daughter,
General Sheridan, Senator and Mrs.
Cockrell, General Raum, Congress-
men Henderson and Thomas OF Illi-
nois, and Mrs. Thomas, Senator Mil
Ter and wife, Congressman Symes Of
Colorado, DIR. Baxter, General Henry
Strong, and Daniel Shepard and wife,
of Chicago, and the Generals private
secretaries, w. B. Taylor and Albert
Hall. At the head of the bed knelt
Mrs. Logan, one arm encircling her
dying husbands neck, the hand OF the
other stroking his forehead. At her
side were John A. Logan, Jr., and
Rev. DIR. Newman. Opposite to these
were his daughter, Mrs. Tucker and
her husband, and George A. Logan,
the Generals nephew. "The scene,"
said DIR. Baxter, twas one of the sad
dest that | have ever Witnessed" All
present were deeply affected. The
grief of Mrs. Logan and her children
was pitiful in the extreme. 1t is stated
that the Generals body will no doubt
be taken to Illinois for burial, but no
definite arrangements for the funeral
will be made until Mrs. Logan, who is
| wholly Frustrated, can be consulted.