The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-15
After q Long. Heroic Fight the
C0nqueror Surrenders.
He SUFFERED INTENSE PAIN.
At the Last He Was Unconscious, and
There Was No Struggle.
All the Nation In sIourning-Bell Toll
. Requiem and Flags Droep st HALF
Mast-Tho Funeral Will Take Place
Thursday. and the Interment VIII
BE st st. Louis-Full Military Honors,
and scant Religious Ceremony, At
the Generals Request.

NEw YosK, Feb. A.-fSpecial. General
William Tecnmseh Sherman died at ten
minutes of 2 o'clock this afternoon. His
end was peaceful. 1t could not have been
more so. He had been totally uncon-
scious all morning. and ceased to struggle
long before the coming of the end. The
immediate cause Of death was said to be
the filling of his lungs with mucus. which
he had not the strength to throw off. He
had fought so long as particle Of strength
remained, and even at the close his iron
Will was not vanquished. He was not
ready TO go until his son Tom. the Rev.
Thomas Ewing Sherman, now speeding
across the sea. had come home to him, but
death beckoned and he had to 60.
All morning he lay dying, his family
grouped about his bed His struggles.
which had been painful when he returned
to that semi-consciousness which showed
the proud, unconquerable spirit that still
lived within him, were pitifuIiy weak now
With all hope gone, the family prayed only
for speedy end
During the forenoon as the hours passed
by an inquirer who called at the generals
house was told that all hope had been
abandoned and that his relatives and at
tendants were merely waiting for the end
and endeayoring to make his last hours
as free from suffering as possi-
bic. Among those who called were
Cyrus w. Field and Mrs. u. s.
Grant, as on the preceding days since it
became known that General Sherman lay
at deaths door. Knots of people gathered
in the street near his home, talking to
each other ip low tones Of the dying
soldier. At l 80 p. m. servant came out
Of the house and told policeman on
guard that the end had come and that the
general had at last surrendered. From
Secretary Barrett it was learned that
General Sherman remained unconscious 70
the last, dying with no visible pain.
The general passed away without speak
ing to any of the members of his family
gathered about the bed. Four daughters
and his son r. T. Sherman and Senator
Sherman and also the attending physician
were in the room below. Soon after 2
O'Clock, Private Secretary Barrett entered
the Western Union Office and sent num-
Der OF kilograms to Washington City, in
which he announced the hour of death as
1:50 p. m.
The change in the appearance of things
about General Sherman's late residence
caused by death was remarkable. A small
crowd Of curious people had gathered on
the sidewalk opposite the house, and gazed
at the windows of the sick chamber with
anxious and sympathetic eyes. There were
faces in nearly every window in the houses
fronting within range of the Sherman
mansion. The sun had ceased to shine,
and the house of sorrow stood in the chill
and shadow more gloomy than ever. A
sudden gust of wind tore the last bulle-
tin of the patients condition from
the doorway, where it had
been posted for public inspection,
and as it auttered into the street a liveried
servant pushed hurriedly through the door
and out to the stoop. He bent toward
the officer on duty and whispered some
thing to him. The newspaper men drew
close. Everyone was expectant and wait
ing for the Interpretation of the message.
The policeman turned toward the report
ers but the servant, as If the burden of
news was too great to longer contain, said
in a smothered voice: Hes gone. He
died at I so"
Instantly the scene changed. Young
Ewing dashed out of the house almost be-
fore the words we're spoken, and was run
ming for the telegraph Office, and the news
paper men joined in the rush. Faces
disappeared from the windows, and occu-
pants of the houses hurried into the street,
eager to get all and any information they
could. Generals Slocum. Coils and Wood
ward came from the house and held
short consultation regarding arrangements
for the funeral.
DIR. Alexander, who has been almost in
cessantly at the generals bedside from the
time the illness began, said tonight that
the general caught cold week ago
Wednesday. The next day he attended
wedding, and aggravated the cold.
Friday found the general suffering from .
cold and sore throat, but Saturday he felt so
much better that he wanted TO go out dis
suaded him, however. Erysipelas set in SUM-
day, and Monday he became delirious.
The erysipeias spread over his face,
and the lymphatic glands in
neck became swollen Tuesday and Wednesday
he grew worse. but he rallied
slightly Thursday The rally was not such,
however, as to give even faint hope of recov-
cry. and / so informed surgeon-GenerM Moore,
at Washington City. Friday was the turning
point The erysipelas had almost entirely dis
anpeared. but the attack had left him much
weakened His old complaint, bronchial
trouble and asthma. / think, killed him.
In his weakened condition he was unable
to throw off the mueus which gathered 1t ac
curnuiated and he slowly strsngled to death /
think he suffered greatly. There wa3 always
the quick respiration and gasping for breath.
hut he bore everything without o murnaur, and
no one could have been more heroic Since
Tuesday we had practically abandoned hope Of
his recovery.
The following official statement of the
scenes at the deathbed of General Sherman
and the arrangements for the funeral were
given out by Lieutenant Fitch:
General Sherman lay in bed from Friday
morning until he died today without speaking
word He made an attempt 70 do 90 several times,
but was unable TO utter q sound other than
hoarse gasp. He apparently recognized those
about him by the look OF the eye. His tongue was
swollen and Jaws still more, some hours before
he died Signs of death were noticed hail an
hour before he died, in the icy eoldness OF his
finger tips This coidness gradually extended
10 his hands and arms. He was unconscious for
the last two hours he was alive At the bedside
were his son T. r. sherman, his daughters
Rachel and Lizzie. Lieutenant and Mrs. FlIcn.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Thaekeray, Senator John
sherman. Dr. Alexander and General Thomas
Ewing. The two daughters remained kneeHng.
one at each side OF the bed. during the Last
hauys of the life OF their father. NO
urjest or clergyman was present, neither was
any called No p-.est has entered the house
aimee Father Taylor wes called Death came 80
an,e,ly that those at the haisde did Dot realize
that the general was desd Until Ir. Alexander
heath cnr.o - one foUE