The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-04

WAS again given oxygen, ana again a
slight rally resulted, but it was only tenn
porary. His respiration gradually grew
more laborious and rose to SO, while hls
pulse dropped to 12O. At 6:1O p. m, DR..
Hume left the bedside and reported to the
anxious watchers in the hotel that death
was a matter Of but few moments time.
The oxygen treatment was used constant
ly in desperate effort to keep Mr.. Goe-
bel alive until Justus GoebePs arrival but
no effort was made to arouse the uncon-
| scious man.
At the Death Bed.
As Dr. Hume departed from the room
the afflicted brother and sister turned to
Dr. Mccormack and requested that they
be left entirely alone with their brother,
who was fast sinking, and to both ply
scians, apparently in articulo mortis The
physicians silently withdrew and closed the
door softly behind the grief-stricken
brother and sister. Silently they knelt at
| his bedside, their eyes fastened upon the
half-open eylids of the unconscious man.
He could give no sign of further recogni-
ton and yet he was not absolutely un
conscious Scarcely breathing themselves,
the brother and sister bent over the death
| bed. listening to the short, sharp gasps
of death and praying that the life might
be spared until their brother Justus could
arrive Their prayers were in vain. Even
as they watched the pulsatons became
| slower and slower, gradually but steadily
growing weaker, and with slight quiver
of the eyelids, one breath deeper than the
| rest, a pause a gasp and the life that
had been battling so valiantly against the
assassin's bullet since last Tuesday morn
ing. fickered out Death had claimed its
victim and the brother and sister, bowed
bv sorrow, whose pangs were intensified
b., the knowledge that a few miles away,
burrying to them, was their brother, JUS
us who would arrive too late,
sat down upon the deathbed alone
with their dead brother. Not a
sign emanated from the room to
apprise the anxious watchers in the hotel
corridor without, that Mr.. Goebel had
| passed away.
The stricken brother and sister were left
undisturbed while the two physicians out
side the door anxiously looked at their
watches as the minutes flew by, fearing
| the truth. vet wondering at the long
silence.
Arrival of Justus GOebeI.
Finally. at p. M, the train bearing
Justus Goebel, came in. At the station
70 meet him were Urey Woodson, Samuel
sbackelford, clerk of the Court of APP
peals and Mayor Rhinoch of Covington.
They met Mr. Goebel at the car steps
Us he dead, tell me, is he dead?' were
the first words he uttered
He is not dead" was the assurance
Given him by the friends who had no
lnkling of the truth.
The party entered a carriage and at 7;S5
o'clock arrived at the Capitol Hotel. with
toars streaming from his eyes, Mr.. Goebel
,,os conducted to the chamber where lay
his brother. A rap at the door was an
swcred by Arthur Goebdi, who silently
drew his brother in and closed the door.
rive minutes later Arthur Goebel again
ononed the door and motioned to the two
pbvsicians. ale died at 6:45 o'clock, pain
lessly." was all he said, and then closed
the door.
The Announcement Made.
There was no excitement in the corrl-
dor Those who heard the words Of Ar
,hur Goebel were reverenty silent ana
did not disseminate the intelligence WIN
in q few moments the following announce
ment had been prepared and was silently
handed about the hotel and in the s'teets'
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