The National tribune., 1900-11-01
Gen. HAMILTON WAS SHOT BY
COL. BURR THIS MORNING IN A
- DUEL. 80 l@.Ts
THE GENERAL rs SAID TO BE
MORTALLY WOUNDED"

'Umph, bumph, Served him right,
served him right" and Mr.. Datchery nod
ded his head. What more could one ex-
pect? His slandering tongue will be silent
now"
Mr.. Datchery's remark was followed by
SO many angry chances that he hurried
away. AS he went he wondered if Ham
ilton had told anyone of the business with
Granger. He made very cautions inquir-
les, and learned that Gen. Hamilton had
said nothing about business, and he went
to his tavern elated and depressed, hop
ing and fearing.
Bulletins, hourly changed, kept the city
in state of agitation. All the circum-
stances of the catastrophe were told, and
retold, and exaggerated at every corner.
The thrilling scenes that were passing at
the bedside of the dying mantle con-
situations OF the physicians arrival
of the stricken family-Mrs. Hamilton's
overwhelming Sorrow-the resignation and
calm dignity of the ilIustrious sufferer
his broken slnmbers during the night-the
piteous spectacle Of the seven children
entering together the awful apartment
the single look the dying father gave them
before he closed his eyes, were all de-
scribed, and produced revulsion of feel
ing even among some of Burr's friends.
The wounded man fingered 81 hours The
duel was fought on Wednesday morning,
and at o'clock on Thursday afternoon,
July r. 1904, Gen. Hamilton died
A notice was Immediately posted for q
meeting of the merchants at the Tontine
Coffee House that evening, when they re-
solved TO close their stores on the day of
the funeral, to order all the flags of the
shipping at half f-maSt, and to wear Grape
IN HoyS The hor mat pnnrnipO
and agreed to &C into mourning for the
period of six weeks. The military COM
panies, the students of the Columbia Col
leges, the Tammany Society, the General
Society of Mechanics, the corporations of
the city, all passed resolutions of sorrow
and coincidence, and agreed to attend the
funeral. On Saturday, July II, the fu-
neral took place. Business was utterly
suspended. The funeral cortege surpassed
anything New York had at that time ever
known. The funeral procession comprised
all the magnates of the city, and nearly
every body of men that had a corporate
existence. Some of the friends and parti-
sans of Col. Burr made it a point to tes-
tify by their presence in the procession
that they shared in the general respect for
the fallen statesman and in the universal
sorrow at his untimely end:
While the procession was moving the
minute guns of the artillery in the park
and at the Battery were answered by min
ute guns from British packet and two
French men-of-war that lay at anchor in
the harbor. Thus men of every nation in
New York joined in the general grief and
sespect for the fallen Hamilton. For two
hours the booming of so many guns deep
ened the melancholy Of the occasion. New
York City has never witnessed more i'm
pressive funeral. Gov. Morris, on a plat
form at Trinity Church, pronounced
brief eulogium that penetrated every
heart; for on the same platform stood the
four sons Of the departed, the eldest 16,
the youngest but four.
*Hamilton's city residence was 80 Cedar
street. Mr.. Bayard's house, to which
Hamilton was taken, was somewhere on
Greenwich, within half a mile of Rich
mond Hill.
ITO he continuedl