The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-28

idly and death was momentarily ex-
pected. Restoratives were applied and
hypodermic injections of nitro-glycer-
inc, the most powerful of all heart
stimulants, and strychnine were made.
His blood vessels were in a state of
collapse and his condition was so ex-
tremely critical that the physicians
decided that TRANSMISSION was immedi-
ately necessary to stimulate the heart.
DR.. Ranssaeller, an expert surgeon and
son-in-law of Mr.. Johnson, was hastily
sent for. He opened a vein in the left
arm and infused a pint and a half of
normal saline solution. The operation
was successful and about o'clock the
stricken statesman had revived some
what.
The news which came later that
Secretary Gresham was dying spread
like wildfire through the city, and pub
lie officials and friends of the secre-
tary called at the hotel by the score
and asked anXiously for information.
President Cleveland, who was at
Woodley, was telephoned to and kept
constantly informed as to his pre-
miers condition. He, too, has been
confined to his room, it is said, for
two days by bilious attack. He sent
in word that if it was possible for him
to see the secretary or to be of any
assistance, he would be glad to. come
in, but the physicians stated that it
would be impossible for the secretary
to see anyone and he, therefore, de-
cided to remain at Woodley.
At the Bedside.
The secretary lay in one of a suite of
rooms room on the groqnd floor Of the Airing
Gresham, his daughter, Mrs. f.. F. An
dreWs, OF Chicago, md his son~in-law, Mr..
andrews the nurse and three physicians
Secretary Lamont, First Assistant Post
master General Jones, Assistant secretary
Of State Uhl, Chief Justice Fuller, Colonel
Corbin and Captain Fuller. of the army
remained in parlor y, connected with the
secretaryS suite. receiving such persons
as were admitted and answering inquiries
Among those who called were the Chi
nese minister and his secretary; Senior
Romero, Mexican minister; Minister huri-
no, OF Japan; Assistant Secretary Hamlin
and Secretary Carlisle. Comptroller
Eckels. Justice Harlan, Senator German,
OF Maryland, and DR.. Guzman, the Mic
araguan minister.
Secretary Gresham was conscious al
most the entire evening Many times he
Inquired for his son, Otto, who is on the
way from Chicago Meanwhile, the anx-
iOus watchers at the bedside about $50
saw the giant frame of the secretary con-
vulSed by severe chill He sank rapidly,
but the chill passed away, and he re-
covered slightly, and then dozed for q few
minutes. The physicians continued to
cerine.
At 12:10 he suffered another rigor
At 1850 O'Clock, Secretary Herbert came
to the hotel. He had arrived in Washing
ton about $50, Fastening at once to Join
the little party of watchers
AT Midnight.
By midnight the signs of dissolution
were crowdlng thick and fast. The mem
berS Of the secretarys family, who had
been excluded earlier in the evening from
a fear that their presence might arouse
the apprehension of the dying man, had
been admitted, for it was plain that Sec
rotary Gresham fully realized his position
and desired TO spend his last moments
with his loved ones. He had been con-
scious and even conversed calmly with
those about him, but as the midnight hour
drew near, the waning forces of life were
no longer equal to the effort. and he sank
into silence. Although almost pulSeless
and without signs of life otherwise his
eyes still showed the CLEAN of intelli-
gence and appreciation of what was going
on around him, and the watchers waited
in silent agony of spirit for the going out
of life.