The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-12
GEN. CALlXTO GARCIA DEAD
EXPIRED IN WASHINGTON 4T1O:fO O'CLOCK YESTERDAY MORNING.

Had Been Sick With Pneumonia but a Short Time-Tho Disease Brought on by a Sudden Change in CIimate-Ex- posture at Banquet, Given Last Tues- day Night, i'm His Honor, by General Miles, Caused Slight Cold to Develope Into Fatal Lung Trouble.
 Washington, Dec. 11.-Gen. CaliXto Garcia, the distinguished Cuban war ror and leader, and the president of the commission elected by the Cuban assembly to visit this country, died here at 10:10 a. m. to-day at the Hotel Raleigh where the commission has it's headquarters. The sudden change from the warm climate of Cuba with the hardships he had there endured, to the wintry weather of New York and Washington is responsible for the pneu- monia which resulted in his demise. He contracted slight cold in New York which did not assume an alarming
 
 On Tuesday night General Garcia at tended a dinner given in his honor by General Miles and it was result of the exposure that night which eliminated in his death. During the twelve hours or more preceding dissolution General Garcia was unconscious most of the time.
 At intervals he recognized one or of oJ,o Ri Tn, xvi moments as all through, his thoughts were for his country and it's people, and among his last words were irrational mutterings in which he gave orders to his son, who was on his staff, of a battle which he supposed was to occur tomor- TOW, in which he understood there were only 400 Spaniards to combat. Just be- fore he died, he embraced his son. Rev. Father MaGee of St. Patric1's church was called in during the day and was with General Garcia until the end, ad- ministering the last rites of the Catho lie church. Other members of the com mission were also in the bed chamber when the end came. The remains were placed on a bier in the room in which he died. A large Cuban flag serves as covering and the head rested on one of l were left exposed to public view. The features had remarkably life-iike ap pearance and gave no indication of the sufferings which the deceased had borne Just above the head rested magnificent wreath of roses tied with pure white ribbon. By direction of Ma Jor General Miles detachment of SOL diers from Battery E, Sixth Artillery, I,o ,Jye ho,.o o,,J of Lieutenant Cox was detailed as a body guard for the remains
 After General Garcias death steps were taken to notify the government off, ficials. Secretary Jose Vilalon of the commission sent telegram of notifi- cation to Mondez Capote, the president of the Cuban assembly who is now in Havana. As soon as the death became known number of visitors, including many public men, came to the hotel to express their condolences President Mckinley manifested his sympathy by sending suitably worded letter and Vice President Hobart sent his card Among those who called were Senators Foraker, Money, Proctor and Chandler and Major Generals Lawton and Wheeler.
 d y, only one of whom, Justo, a captain on his staff, was with him when he died. His widow and Mercedes daughter seventeen years of age, are at Macon, Ga., where the girl is quite i'll; Marion, son. is with the mother at Thomas vile, and another son is in Cuba. A daughter, Leonora, who married an American, is now living in Paris. His mother resides in Havana
 General Garcia, whose name will ever be linked with those of other patriotis who have fought against unequal odds, had been the most active of all the Cu- bans. He was man of culture and refinement, of splendid education and came from distinguished family of Jiauan of Santiago de Cuba province. He was born in Cogquin October 14, 1889, and was therefore in the siXtieth year of his age. General Garcia was educated in Havana and in Spain. In 1863 he was married to Isabel Velz, General Garcia was the original con- spirator in the uprising of the Cubans against Spain in 1868, and in that war he attained the rank of brigadier gen. eral. In October of 1868 he captured
 
 recruited many hundreds of patriots. He had command of the eastern de- partments during that revolution after 1873 and won many notable victories, including those of Melones and Aures. While the revolution was In critical state in the other provinces and it's out come was uncertain he maintained it with vigor in the territory under his command.
 In 1875, while reconnoitering with his escort he was surrounded by 2,00O Span iards. Preferring death to capture and subseouent execution at the hands of his enemy, he attempted suicide by pIacing his revolver under his chin and firing. the bullet coming out between his eyebrows. For months he lay be- tween life and death, but was saved finally by Spanish surgeons, who possi- blv had owed their own lives to his mercy. The Spaniards believed he was about to die and gave him pardon. The hole which the bullet made when it entered the chin and came out between tbe eyebrows was always visible and shows plainly in the calmness of death. For his participation in the revolution arv movement he was sent to Spain
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