The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-27
SUDDENLY CALLED.

Sudden Death of sfajor-General Crook,
Commands Of the Department Of the
Missouri-lA TrilIIant military Record.
CIucAeo, March 22.--Major-Genera
George Crook, United States army, in
command Of the department. OF the Mis-
souri,, died at the Grand Pacific Hotel
at 7:15 o'clock yesterday morning Of
heart disease. 49,
There had not been the slightest
warning that General Crook was not per
fectly well. He was at army head
quarters all day Thursday, and at
night, at the hotel, appeared to be in
his usual good health. He got up as
usual yesterday morning at Z o'clock.
While dressing he suddenly said to his
wife: 81 can't breathe" Mrs Crook
helped him to a sofa and doctor was at
once summoned, but before he could
reach the room General Crook was dead.
The General has been in command of
the Department of the Missouri for sew
eral years succeeding General Schofield.
John S. Drake, proprietor of the Grand
Pacific Hotel, an intimate friend of Gen.
eral Crook, made the following state
ment: General Crook arose shortly
before 7o'clock yesterday morning appar-
emily in his usual health and, in accord
ance with his custom, began exercising
with the weights and pulleys connected
with an apparatus for the purpose which
he kept in the room. After exer-
cising for a few minutes he stopped
and went and lay down upon a lounge,
saying that he felt a difficulty in
70 L. 1,
called out to his wife: oh, Mary, Mary;
l need some help; ] can't get my
BREATH DIR. Hurlbut, who lives near
by was at once sent for. Every thing
that could be done was done, but he
failed to rally and died at 7:15. Mrs
Crook and her sister, Mrs. Reid, were
the only members of the family present
at his bedside when he passed away. He
had no children. / suppose his death
resulted from an affection of the heart.
For some weeks, in fact ever since his
last trip to the Northwest, he has been
complaining of bearing-down sensation
in the neighborhood of the heart"
BIOGRAPHICAL.
General Crook was sixty.one wears old
September last He was born near Day
ton, o., and was graduated from the United
States Military Academy in 1882 From that
year until the beginning of the war he
served with the Fourth infantry in Califor-
mia He went into the war as Colonel of the
Thirty sixth Ohio infantry. He was wound
ed at Lewisburg and was breveted Lieuten-
ant Colonel for services at Antietam lie
took part in Sheridan's Shenandoah
and in 1855 he was
breveted Brigadicr- General and Major. Gen.
eral, U. S A. At the end of the war he was
Lieutenant Colonel and sent
to Boise, Idaho, where he fought Indians at
intervals until 1872 In that year he was sent
to supprt IS the Indian distuI Dances in the
Arizona district. He sent an ulti1natum to
the chiefs tt return to their reservations or
be wiped from the face of the earth" They
the demand and he attacked
them In the T ,Eto basin, stronghold
deemed impreRn1blc, and enforced subInis.
sion. In 1857 he subdued the turbulent
Sioux and Cheyennes, in the memora-
BILE Indian war in which Custer and his men
were massacred In 1888 the Chirit ahuas de-
handed his energetic attention. He marched
} 0 miles and captured AGO prisoners, com
pletely subduing the recalc trants. This
was his last imor;ant Indian campaign,
and General Crook ut once set about in
'tructing the aborigines in the arts of peace.
lie drove out squatters and invaders, pro-
ected the Indians in farming abolished GER
tain abuses Of the agents and contractors and
stimulated the Indians to help themselves
In three years tho tr bes of the Arizona dis
tritt became self-supporting.