Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-31

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DEATH or GEN. LOGAN
= Els EAST HOURS
: WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec 26.-
At three minutes Of 8 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 fiickers 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 q brothers
love and sympathy his last sad fight; and his
associates Of the senate and house, lrrespect-
I've OF party, awaited in reverent 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 ha stated contidentially to one of
Gen. L0gan's brother senators that unless
a reaction should set in within twenty -four
hours he would have no hope Of his patents
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-
NAMED unchanged except for the worse, the
fever and restlessness increasing, and when
Dr. Hamilton was relieved by DR.. Baxter
shortly after 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
Representatives ymes of Colorado. The Turk
Ing tendency to brain complications, which
had been present in 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 carly days of his illness
yielded to treatment, but left him in 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 at 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 8 o'clock this
morning his pulse was found to be
somewhat stronger, but hisgeneral condition
was not such as to give hope of ultimate re-
covery The physicians again met in con-
sultation at 80 p. M, when it was appar-
ent that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but q few hours At 2 o'clock the
general revived sufficiently to recognize his
wife, who has been at his bedside night ana
day duripg his entire illness As she spoke
to him be looked up into her face, and all
who were present knew that he recognized
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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
a 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 clibmed the hill upon which the
Logan mansion stands, to ask if it were true
that all hope was past At 9 o'clock con-
sultation of all three physicians, Doctors n
& Lincoln, Baxter and Hamilton was held,
and then it was announced to the ia lnily
and the most intimate friends that all hope
had been abandoned From 2 in the morn
ing until the sad end came the senator's de-
voted wife lay by him Oh 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: aHe
was true In every thought and deed of his
life. The Utmost 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 his 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 Culloln, with his wife and
daughter, was the EARLIEST to arrive. SEN
ators Allison, Voorhees,. Wilson, Blair and
| Dolph remained until the last The repre-
Eentatives from Illinois, Thomas, Payson,
Henderson Townshend, Hit and Springer
| were present Senator Cockrell and wife Of
Missouri entered the chamber Of death as the
lasu breath was being drawn, and SEN
ator Warmer Miller ard wife were IN
waiting In the reception room below.
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