Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-08
A Peaceful Ending to the Adjutant
Generals Struggle With Death.
WILL BE BURIED IN PITTSBURG,
According to His Last Request, With All
the Military HOnors.
PATTISON WILL ANNOUNCE DETAILS

| In the afternoon at the City Hospital In
Harrisburg. Dispatches from the State
capital state that his last hours were calm
and death was painless. At about 10 o'clock
he sank into inconsistencies, and he 10y in
! this state until the end came. With him
were his, sisters husband and William r.
Thompson. of Pittsburg, one of his warmest
| friends
Saturday morning mis- condition became
alarming and he sank gradually during the
| day. For few moments after the opera
tion he was bright and cheerful and then he
began to grow weaker, and those who were
with him realized that his time of life was
short. Friends called to pay their last re-
spects, but only few were allowed to see
him. Among the few who saw him were
Governor Pattison and Private Secretary
Tate. The dying man was conscious of his
condition and calling Secretary Tate to his
bedside, asked him to write at his dictaton
his last requests. When Mr.. Tate had fin
ished, he handed the pencil and paper to
General McClelland, and he feebly
affixed his signature to it and then sank back
upon his couch to await the final roll call
10 De buried IN flttSDury.
One of his last requests was that he be
buried in the Allegheny Cemetery, at Pitts
burg. Resident Physician Reynolds, James
B. McCalley, his confidential clerk, and
Colonel C. T. O'Neill, keeper of the arsenal
remained with him during the night.
Shortly after midnight they were rein
forced by Secretary Tate, who remained a
fo mo pts nd uo
conscious at intervals from o'clock until
10, when he became unconscious, and did
not know any of those at his bedside after
that
Rev. T. W. Winter, of East Palestine, O.,
pastor of the United Presbyterian Church,
his sisters husband, arrived at Harrisburg
Saturday morning, and during the afternoon
went to Gwinston, York county, to hold
services. During the night General Nc
Clelland said that he could only live few
hours and telephoned to Rev. Mr.. Winter
to come at once. He reached Harrisburg
about noon, but was too late to talk to his
living relative, and he could do nothing but
sit by his side and watch his life ebb slowly
away.
Among the Generals callers was John @.
Stewart, Deputy Superintendent of Public
instruction, whose home is few miles
from the place where General McClelland
spent his early days. Mr.. Stewart and the
Adjutant General were members of the
same company during the war, and they al
ways kept up the friendship cultivated
in those days General McClelland recog-
nized his old comrade and shook hands with
him feebly. He spoke to his friend Thomp-
son at the same time, and then relapsed into
unconsciousness.
Pattison Will Announce Funeral Details.
Governor Pattison was informed of the
death about o'clock, and soon after tele- !
graphed to Assistant Adjutant General
Krumbhaar, of Philadelphia, to 90 to Har-
risburg Immediately. The Governor will |
issue an order tomorrow formally annonnc- |
ing the Adjutant Generals death and Civ |
ing the details of the funeral. 1t is prob |
able that the remains will lay in state this |
afternoon in the main corridor of the Capt. |
tol at Harrisburg, and Tuesday morning |
taken to Pittsburg for burial. AT the sug-
gestion of Mr.. Thompson, delegations from
the Loyal Legion and Duquesne Post, G. A. !
R., of Pittsburg, will act as guards of |
honor.
General McClelland was taken suddenly
ill about three months ago, while alone at |
his desk in the official departments. He |
once removed to his room at the Common
wealth House. His condition was not con- |
sidered serious, and gave his friends no
alarm. The noise and confusion about the |
hotel annoyed him and a few DAYS after he
went to the hospital as private patient of
DR.. Dunott, who was his sole attendant
during his illness, except DIR. Reynolds, the
resident physician.
A Futile Search for Health.
Accompanied by his chief clerk. Can
tain Kelly, he left January 20 for Old |
Point Comfort The trip was long and
tedious, but it apparently had good effect
on the sick man, and it was thought in
few weeks he would return to Harrisburg
fully recuperated. After he had been away
a few DAYS he was suddenly seized with
vomiting, which continued without inter-
mission for three days. General McClelland
seriousness of his case, he hurried to Har-
risburg, arriving shortly before noon, Jan
uary 80.
The vomiting was checked soon after the
Adjutant General reached the hospital, and
be fell into light sheep. He awoke much
but still weak His color was
much better than it, was when he went
South, but DR.. Dunott was alarmed He
grew weaker and weaker day by day, though
very cheerful.
On Saturday the Generals case was more
|
and, after a conference with Governor Pat
tison, his law partner. and other friends, it
was decided by DR.. Dunott to call a con-
,ultation. 1t was decided to perform an
operation, to which the sick man bravely
Dr. Kean performed the opera
ion, assisted by Drs. Dunott, Fred w.
Joover, Reynolds and Daniel T. Dunott.
There were present Drs. MCGOWAN, Gorgas.
James and Fulk.
The operation showed contracted OPEN
ng from the stomach into the bowels it be-
ng almost closed by cancerous infiltration |
n the walls of the stomach. The stomach
vas immensely enlarged, tine lining men,
,ranes of the abdomen and the liver surfaces
we're studded with cancerous nodules of
smaller size. Under such circumstances no
urther operative proceedings could be
hought of, and the physicians unanimously
General recovered well from the operation,
righter.
Prepared for the Worst.
On his way he said to young Dr. Dunott:
Doctor, 1 am prepared for the worst; what
10 you think of the result?" The physician
eplied that he was too busily engaged dur
ng the operation to give an intelligent an
wer. General McClelland's manner and :
vords indicated that he had not forgotten
lis early training as soldier During his !
ntire sickness he was a patient sufferer,
lever once Complaining.
The National Guard of Pittsburg will par
icipate in the funeral, but no definite
have yet been made General
1cClelland never married and has but few
elatiyes. He is a member of the Third
Church. Pittsburg in which