The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-28
CARRIED TO BRUNswIcK.
Cause Of the Sad Death ofMr. william
D. McIver.

ID. mclVer.
The body of the late William d. McIver
passed through the city yesterday morn
ing en- route TO its last resting place at
Brunswick The body arrived at the
Central depot from Asheville early yes
terday morning. At o'clock a large de-
tachment of the Savannah Volunteer
Guards, over fifty strong, met at the
arsenal for the purpose Of escorting the
remains Of their late comrade across the
city.
Owing TO the fact that the news Of Mr..
Mclver's death was not received in time
to order out the battalion. this was not
done, and request was merely made of
those members of the battalion who Wis
tied the arsenal Sunday afternoon to be
present. The fact that such a large num-
Der gathered on such short notice is suf-
tcient evidence of the esteem in which
the deceased was held by his associates.
The detachment was commanded by
Capt. I. ). Wylly, Jr., of Company D,
which company the deceased assisted in
organizing, with Lieuts. II. 7. Moore, r.
NJ. Screven and w. G.. Hartridge. The
following mem Ders of the battalion acted
as pallbearers: j. w. Motto, +. II. O'COn-
nor, Wright Hunter. A $. Haines, z. K.
Wood and r. NJ. Screven. The detach-
ment was accompanied by Middleton
band.
The body was accompanied to Bruins
wick by the relatives of the deceased re-
siding in Savannah. A special train met
the party at Waycross and conveyed the
body to brunswick, where the interment
took place yesterday afternoon. The
manner IN which the deceased came to
his death was a great surprise to those
who knew him. He left Savannah the
early part of last week 10 spend his vaca-
ton at Asheville. Mr. McIver was of a
robust and healthy appearance. and was
in apparently good health when he left
Savannah. He had been troubled
with a slight cough for some time
but nothing was thought of this. Satur-
day night, it seems, the gentleman who
occupied the room adjoining Mr. McIver at
his hotel, was awakened by hearing him
coughing violently. As the coughing pre-
sently ceased he paid no more attention
to 1t and went back to sleep. Later in
the night he awoke, and glancing into
McIver's room, the door of which was
partly open, noticed that he was not in
his bed. He thought that perhaps Nc
liver had gone into the bath room, but re-
membered that he had heard him taking
bath earlier in the night.
He became uneasy, but being only
recent acquaintance, hesitated about en-
tering the room to make an investigation.
He waited some time, thinking Mr.. Nc
lNbA NOuiU I6GuIu W his TOOLl, DuJ DIS no
did not do so the gentleman arose and
awakened Mr.. Mclver's friends, telling
them that he thought there was something
wrong with Mr.. Mclver An inVesti-
cation was made at once. Mr. Nc
Iver was not found in his room, but
on going into the bath room he
was found prone upon the floor
in pool of blood. He had evidently been
dead for some time. The appearance was
as if he had died of hemorrhage, but a
physician who examined the body gave it
as his opinion that death resulted from
the bursting of a blood vessel of the
throat during spell of coughing Itwas
in the early morning when the body was
discovered.
A special dispatch from Brunswick to
the MORNING News says: The body of
w. d. McIver of Savannah reached
Brunswick on a special train today, and
was inferred this afternoon in the pres.
ence of relatives and a large number of
friends. The deceased was formerly a
resident of Brunswick, where he was
universally popular, and his death was a
surprise and shock 10 all