The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-22
GENEnA1 rlrING DEED.

Was Run Down by Car on the Ihird
Avenue Cable Road--Soldier and states
man-Gnd of Long Careerof Activity IN
Many states-Was Brother-in-iaw OF
General sherman.
New York, Jan. 21.-General Thomas
Ewing died at 1910 o'clock this morn
ing as result of the injuries he receiv-
ed yesterday by being run down by a
cable ear on the Third avenue cable
road..l
The accident occurred shortly after
10 O'Clock yesterday morning and from
that time until his death General EW-
ing remained unconscious.
General Ewing lived in the st. George
apartment house, 223 East Seventeenth
street,
e AS soon as possible after the accident
he was taken to his home.
General Ewing was attended by DR..
Hemingway of 205 East Seventeenth
street, who found that the general was
suffering from conclusion OF the brain,
q severe laceration of the scalp, ana
general shock, which was regarded as
dangerous to a man of General EW-
ing's age.
A consultation of physicians was held
and all night long vain efforts We're
made to bring the general back to con-
seriousness. M
Kelly, the gripman of the car which
struck General Ewing, was taken to the
Yorkville police court directly after the
accident yesterday afternoon. He there
stated that his car was moving very
slowly at the time 1t struck General EW-
ing; that when the general stepped out
from behind the other car he had inn
mediateiy put on his brakes, but that
1T was too late, and he had done every
thing he could. The accident was uu-
avoidable,
Magistrate Mott paroled Kelly to
await the result of General Ewing's in
juries.
General Thomas Ewing. son of Sena-
tor Thomas Ewing of Ohio (who was
also secretary of the treasury under
President William Henry Harrison and
secretary of the interior under Presi-
dent Tyler, was born at Lancaster, o.,
August 2, 1929. Graduating from Brown
university, he served President Taylor
as private secretary in 1849 In 1856
he moved from Lancaster to Leaven-
worth, Kansas. He was delegate to
the first state cons tltutional convention
and in 1861 became chief justice Of KAN
sas -
The war breaking out, Mr.. Ewing re-
signed his high office, and recruited in
THE Eleventh Kansas regiment of vol
unteers, which, led by him, went into
active service at once. Colonel Ewing
distinguished himself by personal bra
very at the BATTLES Of Fort Wayne, Cane
Hin and Prairie Grove. For gallantry
at Prairie Grove he was brevetted
brigadier general With 1000 men he
repulsed Stirling Price on the Missouri
border on September rs. 1864, checking
the Confederates' invasion of the state,
In 1865 he was made brevet major
general of volunteers.
After the war General Ewing entered
upon the practice of law in Washing
ton. but soon returned to Lancaster,
where IN 1877 he was elected to congress
as democrat. There he actively sup
ported all measures designed to prevent
the use of troops at the pools. He
also voted for the Representation of sill
yer and the retention of the green
backs In 1879 he suffered defeat as the
democratic candidate for governor OF
Ohio and was later elected again to con-
gress.
In 1881 he moved to New York, and
soon made commanding place for him.
self at the bar. AT the time of his
death he was member of the firm Of
Ewing, Whitman & Ewing.
General Ewing was recently appoint
ed counsel to the building department
by Superintendent Constable. but on
account of Ill health soon resigned the
place.
General Ewing was q brother-in-law.
of the late General w. T. Sherman, who
latter being adopted by Senator Ewing
received at his hands an appointment to
West Point and afterwards married his
daughter Ellen. Two of General Ew-
/ ing's brothers, Hugh Boyle and Charles,
distinguished themselves in the civil
war, the former coming out a brevet
major general and the latter a brevet
brigadier general. Hugh Boyle Ewing
was minister to Holland for several
years after the war.