The San Francisco call., 1897-07-17
A CRISIS
IS NEAR
|. AT HAND
Latest News From the Bed
side of Colonel Charles
Crocker.
Is A QUESTION OF HOURS.
A Turn for Better or Worse
Expected Some Time
To-Day.
THE ARRIVAL OF GEORGE CROCKER.
He Beat All Previous Records in the
Run From Ogden
West.
THE ARRIVAL OF GEORGE CROCKER.
He Beat All Previous Records in the
Run From Ogden
West.

! Sal MAIEO, CAL, July 16.-Colonel
Crocker's condition tonight is very criti-
cal and his physicians are momentarily
expecting a pronounced turn for better or
for worse.
| The four doctors, after consulting as
usual this evening" announced that the
colonel was approaching crisis, and
that, while the case was extremely serious,
| there was lighting chance for life. The
| following statement was given out by one
of the physicians Immediately after the
consultation:
THE patient is now in the midst of e
| hard battle. and the issue will be deter
mined one way or another before long.
We are in accord in considering that he
has lighting chance for life and do not
by any means surrender hope. Consider
ing that one week has elapsed now since
he received the first stroke, which was
nearly as serious one, and that he still
displays remarkable vitality, we hold that
there Is a chance that he may pull
through.
1.-The hopeful aspect of the case is that
he has held his own since this hour last
night. While his pulse is rapid it is not
tumultuous. He is able to take some
nou ris hment. He is more conscious of
what is going on than most of those who
have been at his beds de imagine. This
evening. wnen asked, Colonel, does your
head ache?' he made no articulate re-
sponse. When he was asked 10 place his
hand on his head If it ached he raised his
nand and placed it on his fore head We
recognize that the patient is sufficiently
conscious to be susceptible to an at
mosphere OF apprehension concerning is
condition"
c.. ia
10:40 this morning after ride across the
mountains from Ogden to San Francisco
behind special engine in the quickest
| time ever made in the history of the rood.
The time from Ogden to Oakland m ole
was just twenty hours and twenty-one
minutes, some two hours quicker than the
time made by William II. Crocker on his
record breaking run over the same route
| last Saturday and Sunday. George Crock
| er was near Ogden Yesterday when DIR.
Gardner's announce ment of the serious
ness of Colonel Crocker's illness caused
General Manager Fillmore to send on
| word to have special train to bring him
on from Ogden.
The special left Ogden yesterday at 12:4
and at $40 this morning it arrived at Oak
land pier. The 744 miles from Ogden to
Sacramento was made in 18 hours, and q
couple of hours later the train pulled into
| the mole. The time made on the run broke
the record made by the famous Jarrett &
Palmer train, twenty-one years sgo, and
also that made less than week ago by
| Will Crocker.
The special which brought the sick
mans brother over the coast division
brought besides George Crocker General
| Manager j. A. Fillmore of the uthern
| Pacific and Henry T. Scott.
| Between 10:40, when the special arrived,
| and 11:30, when it left again for the City,
Manager Fillmore paid hurried visit to
| Uplands. A. G. Bassett and N. L. Smith
of the railroad company had called to in
duire for the colonel earlier in the morn
| ing, arriving at San Mateo at o'clock
and leaving an hour later.
| Early in the afternoon William H.
| Crocker seemed TO have little hope for his
| brothers recovery. He stated that the
colonel was gradually sinking and that he
| had not been conscious since last night.
Later this evening, however, be had re-
| covered confidence to some extent alter
| hearing the somewhat encouraging report
of the doctors. my brother will live
through the night at least" he declared
] hopefully.
A. 10 o'clock last night Henry t. Scott,
Russell j. Wilson and Charles Green left
lhe house at Uplands for the night. They
| felt that gain had been m ade in the con-
dition OF the patient. Among the ply
s!cians attending the patient DR.. CHS
more is not the least hopeful. He main
tains that he has known men to recover
| whose chances seemed leSs hopeful.
Two bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry, of
which Colonel Crocker is grand m aster in
California, Yer ba Buena Lodge OF Perfec-
tion and Yerba Buena Chapter. knights
Rose Croix, met last evening and passed
resolutions OF sympathy for the sick man,
and expressed the nope for his speedy re-