Evening journal., 1888-07-26
WAS SHERIDAN DEADq
A Remarkable story Of Ills Rescue from
Death.

Death.
The country never has known how very
near at one moment Gen. Sheridan was
to death. In any event there was a
space Of five minutes ON the afternoon
Of Thursday, June z, when science itse4
could not have told that Cen Sheridan
was not dead. No test Of death known
TO medical science was absent, save only
that life did, in fact come back to tho
sufferer. The official bulletins and press
dispatches Of the day gave only hints
Of what really happened. The improved
ment in the generals condition during
the fortY-eight hours before / o'clock
on that Thursday morning had been
most encouraging.
After 6 o'clock on Thursday morning
it became apparent that the general had
not passed comfortable night Tho
windows Of the siclS-room had been
closed during the night and heavily
draped with curtains. The patient
body Of reporters outside learned THAI
the most serious complications had oc-
CURED. 1t was only given out TO then1
that all efforts TO ward on The threatened
attack OF heart failure had been unl
successful and that for two hours the
pulsations were hardly perceptible to a
hand laid upon the region Of the heart
A fresh retort Of oxygen had been pro-
cured and freely administered. Brandy
wars also given in small quantities Mt
short intervals. Dry mustard was rub
bed upon the body nd strychnia. in an
increased dose was given. The sick
mans face was flushed q dark red,
hecSed with white patches, and his limbs
were swollen and feyerish. IL was
learned that at one time he had become
entirely unconscious, and for more than
nm hour afterward lay tossing about his
bed, frequently crying aloud as if in
great pain.
Much else had happened in that inter-
val which the physicians did not think
best to communicate to the public; but
now that there is such q hopeful pros
poet Of Gen. Sheridans recovery the
facts may be stated with propriety
During that afternoon there had been
another OF the alarming hemorrhages OF
The stomach and this was followed by
a hemorrhage OF the bowels, which SO
exhausted the patient that he passed
into Inconsistencies. During this period
was the supreme moment, when physi-
AAsAlaf WAANf DINlHtEs ana lftfnUS all
believed the brave soldiers struggles
were at last ended; that death had
indeed come, as "a perhaps happy release.
There was absolutely no pulse nor respi-
ration. The firm jaw had dropped, the
eyes had opened and were glazed. The
nose was pinched with that awful pres
sure which seemingly can only come
from deaths cold fingers. There was
even that subtle odor which follows So
last upon the final passage of the spirit
ana tells that mortality has claimed
its duo Of the body from which what
IN immortal in it has escaped
Mrs. Sheridan had been holding his
hand, which had grown colder and colder.
Col. sheridan now released il from her
clasp. Father Chappelle had adminis-
tered Che last rites of the church He /
sbood by the bedside, and his experienced |
eye FAMILIAR with death in all its forms
noted The sure signs Of dissolution At
ast nc turned away with the sign OF /
.he cross over the placid forehead, and /
wemt uo~n % the antc-room, where Coils.
heliOgg and Blunt and Gen. McFeelt-
were waiting. Holding up his hand.
he said All is OVER A MESSAGE ,Vas
quickly sent 90 Mrs Michael Sheridan
At me house Of the generals brother
4 af DX, Meanwhile the watchers M
NV Ieuside We're preparing TO arrange
,he body IN death. execDt fhat IN
Y l1elily, hoping against hope. was stili
applying every device that science nnd
EVEN desperate chance could sngoeet
ne had opened the nieht-uov-n sn5
( pplylns ms car 70 the heart. eonld
aetego M uutter Of pulsation. lie Ind
u, S. al marks Of DEATH but persevered
'lrA sheridan was lSneeling in nr,,-er
LOT ING departed soul, when The gra,ea
Ahu Wllite-haired physician seized + III
'ahlc oaiJ ry. One electrode III ,l.oal
y the base Of the generals nccig ~
lbnVt upon the inner side az tba llFt
ineh. ne current generated III bae
,nhte Alid' was sufficient IA have ' -,
,,t,,ahtAy Killed man in stalvart bcaltI
,irIe was yet no sign OF life M
~, =, s.elau tnen res0rted 10 hvpodermio
pJeNliohs Of brandy. Minutes nasia'i
luWiA, ana live were counted ~
NgatchiNl ear was again al no boa,t
uere was 2 feeble beat. then n lorli..
ltceplible inspiration. gben tbe 10y
peheu and Mrs. Sheridan arose fro,, ~ -
-hees and bent over her hnshana oi IN net
~ complete Intelligence in the loolr bo
: W. 5 net' ana u seemed as if the miracle
~ ~ years before had been repeated
~ une dead had come back ~ lifo
trhaps = had been. Science. sin ' ~.
'r .l 81 ITS capacities and possibilitios
~ not yet venture to say ybetbon =
as Or not.-Chicago Mail 0' -
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