The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-28
SECRETARY GRESHAM DEAD
PASSED AWAY QUIETLY AT AN
 EARLY HOUR THIS MORNING.

For Two Hours Before Dissolution There
 We're no Indications of Either Heart O.
 Pulse Beats-He was Concious to the
 Last and Died as Quietly as Child Sink
 ing Into sIumber--During the Day He
 Lay in a StupOr.
 Washington, May 2s. - Secretary
 Gresham died at 1:15 this morning,
 For two hours preceding dissolution
 there had been no indication either
 of pulse or hearlt beat He lay
 during that time with his head rest ing on the arms of his daughter, Mrs. Andrews, while his devoted wife sat by his side, fis hands clasped i'm hers; his face so turned that his last con- scious gaze should rest upon her. Alnd so the minutes dragged slowly on until the end came. He was con-
 sclous to the last. He suffered great ly during the preceding forty -eight hours after the pneumonic symptoms
 were complicated with his disease and was only temporarily Relieved by ire quent hypoderrn1c Injections But as the end approached his suffering dis appeared and he passed away as quietly as a child sinking to Slumber Arrangements for the funeral will be made after Otto Greshams arrival from Chicago.
 Mrs. Gresham's long pent-up grief could not be restrained when she re- alized that the secretary was dead. She leaned over his body, calling him af- fectionately by name, and was with difficulty removed from his side.
 President Cleveland was at once noti- fled.
 Washington, May 27.-The official {. statennent given out by Secretary Gresham's physicians tonight shows that the secretary's condition has been more serious since Saturday, than either they or the others who had admission Ito the sick room would acknowledge. II Since pneunonlac symptoms appeared injections of nltro- -glycerine and strych- mine have been administered. Tonight saline injections, aggregat- ing several quarts, were given. During | the day the secretary lay in a stupor, which was the foundation for the re- port that he was resting easily" As soon as the physicians, however, real ized that the end was approaching the heroic measures usual in such cases were adopted. Notwithstanding their efforts the patient sank rapidly The physicians in attendance were Messrs. NV. w. Johnson and Prenltiss of this cHty, the latter having been called into Ithe case within the past few days. This Aevenlng Dr. Yam Rensselaer was also scalled.
 The aatter performed the operation of Isnjecting the saline. At 10 o'clock Dr. IPrentiss acting for himself and his coll Sleague, Dr. Johnson, prepared a brief Hstatenent of the secretary's condition. Mrs Gresham had scarcely left her Husbands room since his illness began B month ago. She has been plucl1y and lcourageous and has been hopeful undn Nbo-day that the generals life would be 'spared. When she realized to-day the apparent impossibilIty of his recovery | she manifested her emotion repeatedly | but bore lit as bravely a's her exhausted 1 bondition would permit I The secretary, who has been conscious l 81uring his illness, seemed to have been l more concerned for his wife than | For himself. He realized this afternoon ] That the end was approaching, butt his | Aonstant suggestion made in feeble l Nhispers to his daughter was Hook out |
  Eention. Don't worry about me" 8 The news of Secretary Carlisle's re- apse did not become known until NP'cloclz this afternoon, at which hour bis niece, Mrs. Fuller, the wife of Cap
 adn Fuller of the army, was sent for
 t spread rapidly and by o'clock scores
 persons prominent lin public had #arled to express their sympathy.
 tolircrY4a m yxroic ezegr1l+ t0 TI16pra !
 ito of Philadelphia, telling him to come
 b the bedside of Secretary Gresham, Is the latter is dying.
 Judge Outo was a comrade of the ReneIital in the army,
 A telegram was also sent to Score
 bry Greshann's son. Otto Gresham, at !
 hicago, ITL., informing him that the
 nd WAS near and urging him to has z sn to Washington without delay.
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