The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-12-30
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| WASHINGTON Special Telegram, Dec Co.
At three minutes of o'clock to-day the
soul of John A. Logan, patriot. soldier and
senator. passed to his rest The wife and
children with whose life his own was SO
closely knit were by his bedside. and re-
ceived the last flickers of intelligent recogni-
ton that his pain-racked brain was permit
ted to give. The chief of the army of the
nation in whose service he had achieved
such gallant deeds watched with brothers
love and sympathy bis last sad tight; and his
associates OF the senate and house, lrrespect=
i've of party, awaited in revereht awe the
end which all alike deplored When Sur
geon General Hamilton entered upon his all
| night vigils by the sick mans side last
night he stated confdentially to one OF
Gen. Logan's brother senators that unless
reaction should set in within twenty -four
hours he would have no hope Of his pa tents
recovery. Through the long watches of the
night the physician watched in vain for some
symptom to indicate that the terrible pres
sure on the brain which was drawing the
| life blood away from the heart had relaxed,
but all through the night the condition re-
manned unchanged except fot the worse; the
| fever and restlessiiess increasing, and when
Dr. Hamilton was relieved by Dr. Baxter
| shortly after 8 o'clock he abandoned all hope
OF recovery. His vigils during the night
were shared by Gen. Beale, Gen. Grants
most intimate friend in Washington, and
Representative ymes of Colorado The lurk-
ing tendency to brain complications, which
had been present in q greater or less deg rec,
and constantly increasing in severity during
his entire illness, had prepared his friends to
expect the worst. The racking 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 the fever
preyed with increasing violence until the
hour OF his death. After last midnight his
pulse grew weaker and weaker, and Mt 4
o'clock this morning his condition was such
| as to cause great fear of his immediate death.
After this he rallied somewhat, and at the
consultation which was held at o'clock this
morning his pulse was found to be
somewhat stronger, but his general condition
was not such as to give hope of ultimate re-
covery The physicians again met in con-
sultatton at 80 p. M. when it was appar-
ent that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but a few hours At o'clock the
general revived sufficiently to recognize his
wife, who has been at his bedside night ana
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 con-
seriousness. 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 week or more that Gen.
Logan was confined to his room with rheu-
matism, many even of his most intimate
friends were as late as Yesterday 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
shock of sorrowful surprise
All day long the carriages of sympathetic
callers have occupied the space in front of
Calumet place, while hundreds of pedes-
TRANS have ciibmed the hill upon which the
Logan mansion stands, to ask if it were true
that all hope was past At O'Clock con-
sultation of all three physicians, Doctors N
$. Lincoln, Baxter and Hamilton was held,
and then it was announced to the family
and the most intimate friends that all hope
had been abandoned From in the morn
ing until the sad end came the senator's de-
voted wife lay by him ON the bed seeking by
every term of endearment to arouse some
spark of returning vitality.
NO SCENE MORE PATHETIC
could be imagined-no scene 80 sacred can
adequately be portrayed. In the outbursts of
her sorrow she repeatedly ejaculated: sHe
was true in every thought and deed of his
life. The inmost act of his life could be ex-
amined with honor to him. "Those around
the deathbed understood fully that this re-
mark and others of similar character referred
to the charge that Gen. Logan had not been
true to Gen. Grant, and painful rumor was
circulated that one of the physicians had
ascribed the cerebral trouble which proved
the most dangerous feature of the generals
illness to bis brooding over this matter in his
weakened condition Of health As the day
wore on, and the news OF the senator's hope-
less condition spread, nearly every member
of the senate and house of representatives
remaining in the city called'to ascertain by
personal inquiry the truth Of the sad intelli-
gence. Senator Cullom, with his wife and
daughter. was the earliest to arrive. Sen
ators Allison, Voorhees,. Wilson, Blair and
Dolph remained until the last The repre-
sentatives from Illinois, Thomas, Payson.
Henderson. Townshend, Hit and Springer
we're present Senator Cockrell and wife of
Missouri entered the chamber of death as the
last breath was being drawn, and Sem
ator Warner Miller and wife. were in
waiting in the reception room below
Gen. Green =. Raum, Gen. Logan's fast
friend in the army. in congress and in civil
life, arrived about IL o'clock and was close
~ followed by Gen. Sheridan, both remain
Ing deeply moved attendants at the bedside
OF their conrade until all was over: At 40
all three physicians again met in consulta-
ton, but it was a mere form, no change in
the mode of treatment was adopted no
hope of respite from the impending shadow
of death was held out to the afflicted fami-
~. All that was left was to wait for death
The generals bed chamber was in the south
west corner of the building, Immediately
over the library in which so many busy
hours have been passed since he moved into
this rural residence. From the window the
whole city lays exposed to view, including
the capitol and the distant heights of Arling-
ton, where 20 many soldiers Of the Union
sleep
THEIR LAST SLEEP.
Tho elevation Of tho building 10, in fact, 20
great that by actual measurement it has
been ascertalned that the threshold is on
line with the statue Of Liberty on the dome
of the capitol: In this room, with the bed
drawn out from the wall 80 as to allow free
passage behind it. with the head turned to-
ward the east and the murky rays of q win
ter's day heavy with threatening snow i'm
perfectly lighting the room. the general lay
labortously breathing his last Shortly after
O'Clock DR.. Newman, Gen. Grants old
pastor, was shown into the room and took
position by the bedside. The family and
friends were there grouped around the bed
in the following order: To the left, between
the dying man and the light, his wife. her
son. J. A. Logan, Jr Tor Manning Logan, al
he Is best known), Mira ]. R Thomas, wife
ef tie member 2. from Illinois Dr. Newman,