The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-12-30

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DEATH OF GEN LOGAN
HIS LAST HOURS.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, Dec. %
At three minutes of 3 o'clock to-day the
soul of John A Logan, patriot. soldier ana
senator passed to his rest Inc wne ana
children with whose life his own was so
closely knit were by his bedside, and re-
ceived the last fiickers of intelligent reeognl-
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 his last sad fight; and his
associates of the senate and house, lrrespecS-
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 he stated confdentially to one of
Gen Logan's brother senators that unless
a reaction should set in within twentyfodr
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-
mained unchanged except for the worse, the
fever and restlessness increasing, and when
DR. Hamilton was relieved by Dr. Baxter
shortly after 9 O'Clock he abandoned all hope
of recovery. His vigils during the night
were shared by Cen Beale. Gen. Grants
most intimate friend in Washington, and
Representative Symes of Colorado The lurk-
ing tendency to brain complications, which
had been present in greater or less degree,
and constantly increasing in severity during
his entire illness, had prepared his friends to
expect the worst The rackng pains which he
suffered during the early 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
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 his sgeneral 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 few hours. At o'clock the
general revived sufficiently to recognize his
wife, who has 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 con-
sciousness He then wearily closed his eyes
and sank again into lethargic sleep, from
which he never awoke While the public
11- t1,ofI Inrs
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-
trians have clibmed the hill upon which the
Logan mansion stands, to ask if it were true
that all hope was past At 8 o'clock a con-
sultation of all three physicians, Doctors N.
S. Lincoln, Baxter and Hamilton was held,
and then it was announced to the ia mily
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 SO sacred can
adequately be portrayed In the outbursts of
her sorrow she repeatedly CALCULATED: "He
was true in every thought and deed of bis
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 his brooding over this matter in his
weakened condition of health. As the day
wore on, and the ne ws 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-
pence. Senator Cullom, with his wife and
daughter, was the earliest to arrive. Sem
ators Allison, Voorhees,, Wilson, Blair and
Dolph remained until the last The repre-
sentatives from Illinois, Thomas Payson,
Henderson. Townshend, Hit and Springer
were present Senator Cockrell and wife OF
Missouri entered the chamber of death as the
last breath was being drawn, and Sen
ator Warner Miller and wife were in
waiting in the reception room below.
Gen. Green b. Raum, Gen. Logan's fast
friend in the army. in congress and in civil
life. arrived about 1 1 o'clock and was close
ly followed by Gen. Sheridan, both remain
ing deeply moved attendants at the bedside
of their comrade until all was over At lao
all three physicians again met in consulta-
1ion, but it was 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-
ly. 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 Airing
ton, where SO many soldiers Of the Union
sleep
THEIR LAST SLEEP.
The elevation of the building is, in fact, so
great that by actual measurement it has