Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-27
SUDDENLY CALLED.

Sudden Death of M.Jor-General Crook.
Commander OF the Departments OF the
Missouri-A Brilliant military Record
CHICAGO, March 2a--Major-General
George Crook, United States army. in
command of the department OF the Mis-
souri,. died at the Grand Pacific Hotel
1t 7:15 o'clock yesterday morning .
heart disease.
There had not been the slighteae
warming that General Crook was not per
fectly WELL He was at army head
quarters all day Thursday, and a
night, at the hotel, appeared to be in
his usual good health. He got up as
usual yesterday morning at 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 %
the Department of the Missouri for sew
eral years. succeeding General Schofeld-
John S. Drake, proprietor of the Grand
Pacific Hotel, an intimate friend OF Gea6
eral Crook. made the following statos
ment: General Crook arose shortly
before !o'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
breathing. A few moments later ho
called out to his wife: oh, Mary, MryS
1 need some help; 1 can't get m1
breathr DR.. Hurlbut who lives neor
by was at once sent for. Every Ching
that could be done was done, but ID
failed to rally and died at tbs. HN
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. 1 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 a bearing-down sensatioe'
! in the neighborhood of the heart"
BIOGRAPHICAL.
| General CroGx was sixty one wears oN9
| September last He was born near Day.
ton, O.. and was graduated from the United
States Military Academy in 1852. From that
year until the beginning OF the 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-
4
| took part in Sheridan's Shenandoah
| campaign, and in 1865 he WAS
breveted Brigadier- General and Major Gen
| eral, q. s A At the end of the war he was
commissioned Lieutena nt Colonel and sent
| to Boise, Idaho where he fought Indians at
| intervals until 1872 In that year he was sent
| to suppress the Indian disturbances In the
Arizona district He sent an ultimstum to
| the chiefs to return to their reservations
| be wiped from the fsce of the earth" They
| disregarded the dems nd and he attacked
| them in the Tonic basin, a stronghold
deemed imDregnable, and enforced submis-
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 Chiricahuas de-
| manded his energetic attention. He marched
| miles and captured 400 prisoners. COM
| pletely subduing the recalc trants. This
was his last imortant Indian campaign,
and General Crook at once set about in
structing the aborigines in the arts of peace.
He drove out sQuatters and invaders, pro-
| tected the Indians in farming abolished GER
tain abuses of the agents and contractors and
stimulated the Indians to help themselves.
| In three years the tribes of the Arizona dis
| trict became self-supporting.