Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-12-19
DEATH
 NEAR AT HAND The Ex-Secretary's Family Now Admit That He
 Cannot Survive.
REVIVED WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY
 FROM HIS SINKING SPELL.

Excitement in Washington Intense When
 the News Spread that He Was Dying
 He Is Lying Now in a Semi-Unconscious 'State-A Slight Improvement Which
 Does Little to AIlay Apprehension.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. - The life of James G. Blaine still hangs trembling in the balance. For a long time yester- day hope was abandoned and the end was momcntarily expected by physicians, family and friends. All stimulation is thrown aside in the apparent imminent presence of death, and the suppressed facts of his illness, the long denied but now ad- mtted Brights disease, the occasional in tervals of delirium, the long hours when he has lain incapable of speech or motion, these and other distressing features of his illness all incidental to the one over towering organic trouble, are now ad- mitted.
 The physicians assert that there have not been any hemorrhages, as has been stated, but this is almost the only alarm ing symptom which is now denied.
 The first crisis was reached between 10 and 1 1 o'clock yesterday morning, when sinking spell set in from which the worst was feared.
 HIS 1HnlllY were Cdlleu dTOuuu Gue Deu- side, and his physicians sent messenger after messenger to the nearest drug store with prescriptions requiring nasty atten- tiOn.
 The patient lay unconscious, and, to all appearances, dying, until shortly before l p. m., when rally set in. His pulse, which had almost ceased to beat, again became perceptible, and partial con SCiousneSS was restored.
 While the improvement in MT. Blaine's condition is but slight and not sufficient to afford any encouragement to his family, the reaction has seemed to modify the feeling of apprehension for the imme- diate future.
 All through the day and night repre- sentatives of the press patrolled Madison place and carefully watched the | old red mansion which has become cele- | brated for its historical associations and the fatality with which misfortune has | followed its occupants. From the Sickles- Keys tragedy, which occurred more than a third of century ago, followed by the attempted assassination of Secretary Sew | ard during the last year of the Civil War, down to the present time, the pail of ill | fate has hung over the mansion. During l the less than four years occupancy of this | house by the Blaine family, Col. Cop | pinger's wife, Walker Blaine and Emmons l Bla n", the secretary promising sons, have died.
 The excitement throughout the city was intense as the news of MT. Blaine's condition spread, and, Sunday though il was, the newspapers issued extras l which found rapid sale.
 | From an intimate friend of the family it is learned that it was only when MT Blaine was suddenly seized with the sink ing spell yesterday, which threatened fol | some time to terminate with heart fail ure, that his family fully realized how | near he was to death. For a few seconds he seemed to be in extremis, and thu | watchers bent anXiously over him.
 The emaciated face of the dying states man was white as marble, and his feature were sadly drawn. At times he scarcel, seemed to breathe, and at others gaspec for breath.
 The physicians who had been hastil!
 summoned were in the meantime no
 idle. They piled him with stimulativ
 cordials, the trained nurses chafed his ex
 tremities, and it was only after working
 over the patient for upwards of 80 mir
 utes and the application of every ar
 known to the medical profession that MI ] Blaine slowly revived.