Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. ANOTHER HERO GONE. General Hancock Joins The
 Great Army. IA SHOCK TO THE COUNTRY. The Scene In The Death
 Chamber. QUIET AGAIN AT LONDON. Senator Platt Finding
 Many Supporters.
QUIET AGAIN AT LONDON.
l. HANCOCK CALLED HOME

was shocked this afternoon by the brief tele- 1 graphic message from Adjutant General | Whipple on Governors Island announcing the death of General Winfield s. Hancock, senior major general U. S.A. and command CT of the military division of the Atlantic. The sad intelligence was immediately con l veyed to the remotest corners of the country
 and as if by magic flags appeared at half mast on the various public buildings in the city. Within an hour the telegraph wire l leading into the headquarters was burdened l with messages of coincidence and tender sym | pathy with the bereaved widow, whose grief | is overwhelming, and of tributes to the gen. l erals private and public virtues as a citizen | as well as to his greatness a commander l The news of hls death was all the more start 1 ling from the fact that few of his intimate | friends had any knowledge that his illness was considered to be serious. As late as Saturday he was in his private office attending | to his official duties. When he went to Washington two weeks ago to-day slight eruption on his neck near the base of the brain gave him uneasiness and the infamma- ton increased so rapidly that on Friday, ] January 29th, he had it 1anced by Dr. O'Reil- ly, the attending surgeon in Washington at the headquarters of the army. The eruption continued to discharge freely and the loss of blood was such as to make 8 very percepti- ble difference in his usual robust appear ance.
 Immediately after his return to Governors Island week ago the general sent for Dr. John H. Janeway, attending surgeon of the department, who soon perceived signs of carbuncle To his experienced eye the evi- dence of this was unmistakeable. Next day the carbuncle appeared and it gradually grew worse, although Dr. Janeway did not # &hn 111,cf, patient past the point of speedy recovery until Sunday night, the 7th inst. when decided ly unfavorable symptoms set i'll accompanied by delusion. The malady had then touched the brain and there appeared to be good ground for the opinion that the generals consisting of concentrated beef tea, milk and stimulants, was judiciously admins tered Colonel Charles Sutherland, med ical director of the island, coop erated with Dr. Janeway in attend auce on the patient and the general eheerfully assisted his physicians by comply ing strictly with their directions. He recog- nized their supreme authority under these serious circumstances and like true soldier to the last he obeysd the orders of his supe- riors. Although his condition was alarming, his pulse was regular and he rested easily up to last evening and during the greater part of the night so that hope of his ultimate recovery was by no means abandoned. Oliver Russell, the gen erals brother in-law, watched by his bedside and did not notice any decided change until at an early hour this morning. Between four and five o'clock the general became rest less and was unable to take either medicine or nourishment. The physi- clans were called and they sent to this city for Dr. D. M. Stimson, of No. 7 West Seventeenth street, an old friend of the generals, who arrived at ten o'clock. In the consultation which was held the physicians were unanimous in their diagnosis of what soon after proved to be fatal illness Theis WAS to the effect that the general was rapidly sinking from ex- haustion caused by the loss of vitality incl dent to the powerful drain upon his condi- tion made by the carbuncls, complicated and avated by chronic diabetes. The gener- al soon fell into what appeared to be quiet slumber General James B. Frye, who had served on Hancock's staff as an assistant adjutant general, having heard that his old commander was i'll, arrived during the morn ing and together with Drs. Janeway and Sutherland, Mr. Oliver Russell, Hospital Steward Robinson, Ward, the generals pri- vate messenger, and Daniel, his young col ored servant, were in the room watching and waiting when at seven minutes before 5 o'clock in the afternoon the final summons came and the great commander passed away 1 to join the noble army of his departed com rades without a murmur.
 The sorrowing spectators of this peaceful and impressive scene were still standing there | as though transfxed when the cathedral clock on the mantle in the sitting room be- l low sounded it's three sweet toned strokes Then they fully realized that all was over and l the sad intelligence was publicly announced A representative of the United Press was despatched to Governors Island, and he was allowed to look at the generals remains within an | hour after his death. Hancock lay | on the bed in the easy natural position in l which he died, in that simple second-story | chamber with it's windows facing west and south The generals head was toward the 1 north in whose cause of national integrity | he had rendered such conspicuous and i'm l portant service on those famous battlefelds l of the rebellion with which the honor of the l be forever linked together. His | face was turned toward the south, whose affection he had fairly won after the war 1 was over by his wise, benefcent and su- | premely jast administration of affairs dur ing the reconstruction period, when, though ! all the power which that implies, he kept | his sword within its sheath and | assisted the supremacy of civil law.
 As far as could be learned no definite ar l engagements for the funeral had been agreed
 upon up to late hour tonight. It was
 
 Hancock had expressed herself as being op- | posed to a military funeral; that it was her l desire that the funeral arrangements be | as simple and unostentatious as possible. The place of interment has not been fixed l upon, but it is the belief that Norristown,
 Pa, where the generals parents and only daughter Ada are buried, will be selected
 as his final resting place. It is also said that | Mrs. Hancock is opposed to having the body
 embalmed and to it's lying in state.
 In conversation with officer tonight
 that gentleman stated that in all probability
 only the immediate relatives and most mt
 mate friends would be invited to attend the
 obseauies and only eight or ten officers of his immediate staff and small detachment of
 soldiers would accompany the remains to the
 grave Had the general lived to the 14th of
 the present month he would have attained
 his sixty-second year. Messages ot
 cendolence have been pouring in from all points since the news of the gener- aI's death became known. Among those re-
 ceived up to Il o'clock tonight are the fol
 lowing:
 | EXECUTIVE MANsIoN | WASHINGTON, February g.
 Mrs General Hancock Governors Island New
 in your terrible ny bereavemens inc heroism ane
 worth of your late husband have gathered to youl l [Signed] GROVER CLEVELAND.
 ST LOUIS, Feb g.
 General W. D whipple, Governors Island: l General Nizner has been here and says HancocI
 is dead Is it possible? Il must st. go to the Burne %
 Can de anything to manifest my love for him ane | his widow? SHERMAN. !. | WASHINGTON, Feb. g. l Mrs w S. Hancock Governors Island:
 | have this moment heard of the death of Gene | ral Hancock and wish ts express to you, my dea | madame, my deep sympathy and condoence. The
 army has lost very distinguished and faithful of | dcer and the country one of it's best citizens
 | P H. SHERIDAN. Lieutenant General.
 Messages were also received from Fredericl
 W. Seward, William H. English, Fitz Hugl
 Lee, August Belmont, Adjutant Genera
 Drum, Major Asa Bird Gardiner, Genera
 Lloyd Aspinwall, Colonel Finley Anderson
 assistant adjutant general on Hancock's stat during the war; Colonel J. P. Nicholson o
 Philadelphia, recorder of the grand com r mandery of the military order Q the Loyal legion (this is tn