The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-21

All the members of his immediate
family were gathered at his bedside ut
the time except his eldest son. Rev.
Thomas +. Sherman. the Jesuit
priest. who is now on his way to this
country from abroad on the stcamer
Majestic. Grouped about him in his
last moments were John Sherman. the
Generals brother; his younger son. L.
I. Sherman; his daughters Mrs. Fitch
and Mrs. Thackara, and the two un-
married ones. Miss Rachel and Miss
Lizzie sherman, who lived with him.
There were also present his niece.
Mrs Colgate Iioyt, and her son;
L~ieutenants Fitch and Thackara. the
Generals s~ons-in-law: J. VI. Barrct. his
private secretary; General Thomas Ew-
ing. his brother-in-law, and Doctors Al
eXander and Green, who have attended
him constantly during his last illness.
They all had been watching by his dy-
ing bedside since the early hours of
the morning. for when they were first
summoned from their beds at half-past
five o'clock yesterday morning it was
believed that he might die at any mo-
ment.
The dying General had been uncon-
scious for several hours. and his fluttcr-
ing pulse was so feeble that on several
occasions il was almost impossible To
tell whether he was living or not. His
long struggle had completely exhausted
him. and il was only his remarkable
vitality and will power that enabled
him to cling to life 80 long after all
hope had been given mp.
From tim Ia time during the morn
ing some of the family would leave the
room. but only to be summoned back
hastily when it WIS thought that the
end was approaching. 1t vas in thn>c
moments that he chung to the thread oI
life that remained for nearly five hnur:
after he became completely uncon
Scious.
DIR. Alexander watched beside the
General necessarily, observing tn
slightest changes in his pulse an,
breathing. After eleven o'clock it wa,
expected that every moment woul,
bring the end. and kilograms were pre-
pared to scnd to all his friends and tn,
officers of the Government at Washing
ION as soon Il dissolution occurred.
At the hnal moment there was no ap-
preciable change in the appearance o.
the sufferer. lie had been lying as one
lead 1or several Lours- Dr- Alexander
Nho a his hand on the General :
breast. for he could not determine the
n.art-lpatS in his pulSp- yTIS WATCHING
tlH lace lhtchtty- lie looked pHnirtly
AT JUST ten minutes 10 Nv" oci"tk an"
toId the Srlel-strlckeh ldihlly thht MS
patient mad passed away.
General Ewing lett the
room ana went down 10 the do"r l" an
nouhce the TACT TO the representatives
OF the newspapers who had been watch
ing the rouse a~nNl"uSly for four days.
lie was vlslDiy affected 10y ms grlci at
the death OF ms old friend ana could
say no more than to make the an
nounccmcnt that the General had passed
away.
\ lew minutes after tins Secretary
barrett came I" the telegraph Office on
columbus avenue with a large batch Of
N'lNNO ~ - -
President Harrison. each Of the mem
hers Of his Cabinet, and to relatives AMI
friends of the family at Washington and
elsewhere. They contained the simple
announcement that General Sherman
had died at $50 p. m. and were most of
them signed 10y Lieutenant Thackara.
Late yesterday afternoon General
Ewing said that death ensued from
tEc accumulation of mucous in the
lungs. The General made an effort to
throw it off, but had not the strength.
lie gave one convulsive gasp, and that
the end.
Mr.. Barrett was so completely pros
tratcd by the sad event of the day that
he could talk with no one. and he
hurried back to the house as soon as he
had filed the dispatches.
General Ewing was seer and said:
General Sherman's death was abso-
luteiy painless, for he unconscious for
several hours. His previous suffcrings
had worn him out completely, and we
all expected that death would come
much sooner than tdid. For some time
before the end he scarcely seemed to
breathe at all, and the respirations be-
came fainter and weaker until they
gradually ceased altogether. The old
General has shown n amount
OF wlll-power during his illness, and
that alone has kept him alive for the
last two days. As long as he was on
scious he was determined to resist to
the end, and if his physical power had
been 4 little greater he might have
o As it was, the end came SO easily
that for a moment it was not possible
to realize that all was over"
At three o'clock Undertaken Robert