Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-30
DEATH OF GEN. LOGAN.
HIS LAST HOURS.

WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec. 26-
At three minutes of 3 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 i1ickers 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 his last sad hight; and his
associates OF the senate and house, prospect
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 confidentially to one of
Gen. Logan's brother senators that unless
a reaction should set in within twenty-fo
hours he would have no hope of ais 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-
manned unchanged except for the worse, the
fever and restlessness increa- ing, and when
DIR. Hamilton was relieved by DIR. Baxter
shortly after 8 o'clock he abandoned all hope
of recovery. His vigfls during the night
were shared by Gen. Beale. Gen. Grants
most intimate friend in Washington and
Representative Symes 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
expects the worst Theracking pains which he
suffered during the sariy DAYS of bis illness
yielded TO treatment but left him in a weak
ard exhausted condition from which he
never rallied, and upon which the fever
preyed with Increasing violence until the
hour Of his dea b. After la midnight his
pulse grew weaker and weaker and ST 4
o'ciork this mo ming mis- condiIion was such
as 70 cause gres fear of his immed ate death.
After this he rallied somewhat. aad at the
consultation VII ch was held at o o'c. ock this
morning his pu 81 was found To be
somen hat stronger, but bis general condition
was MOI such as to give hope of ultimate re-
covery. The physicians again met in con-
sditation at 1880 p. m. when ii 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
dav 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 e me last manifestation of con-
seriousness zen YEARLY closed his eyes
and sank agar. a lethargic sleep, from
which he never awoke While the public
has been aware tor week or more that Gen.
Logan was confined 10 his room with rheu-
matism, many even OF his most intimate
friends were as late rs 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 carriag es 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 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 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.