Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-03-22

bercaved wife and family. The end came
peacefully. There WAS no trcrnor. Only
by the absence of the mist On the mirror
was death recognized.
The last word The former President
spoke was To his wife in reply to a q,.cs-
ton. He said nothing directly that gave
his family the impression that he WAS
dying. Tuesday the General said in Il
disconnected way that he was suffering
no pain. although he complained of the
great difficulty in breathing. During the
night ut short intervals he rallied enough
To be able to recognize Mrs. Harrison.
After that time, however. the General
was unconscious and unable to recognize
any one.
Gen. Harrison's illness had its incep-
ton in a cold he contracted about March
i and which developed into a serious at
tack of the grip. Although he placed
himself under the care of Il physician i'm
mediately. the ailment did not yield to
treatment readily, and in n few days he
was stricken with pneumonia. For a time
1T was impossible to learn Gen. IIarri-
sons true condition, Mrs. Harrison llav-
ing refused 10 allow the physicians to
discuss the case. After the condition be-
came critical, however, the doctors were
authorized to keep the public informed
by means of bulletins.
Al . o'clock Tuesday morning the turn
for the worse came. At that hour the
pain from his afflicted lung made him
restless and he began to toss ~nervously
upon his bed. His respiration grew faint
er, his pulse increased and the general
symptoms became so alarming that for a
time dissolution was expected momcntar-
lily. But the patient fought it off. AT 3
O'Clock there seemed to he some encour-
asement in his condition, although his
temperature was 10Th. DIR. Jameson
left the house at 4 o'clock for n period of
rest and returned two hours later to find
Gen. Harrison more uncomfortable and
losing ground with every breath. Mrs.
Harrison and Drs. Hadley and Dorsey
remained in the sick room throughout the
night.
Tho first really alarming news from the
sick room came at 3 o'clock in the fore
noon. An hour later DIR. jameson an
nounccd that Gen. Harrison's condition
was still worse IL that he entertained
little hope of his surviving many hours.
Ten minutes after that announcement
was made another bulletin came from the
house stating that the alarming symp-
toms We're increasing rapidly.
Gen. Harrison fingered apparently at
the point OF dissolution. Tuesday night
was a long. anxious vigil 10 the watchers
mt the bedside. and to thousands of the
friends and admirers of the eX-PrcsiIenr
all over the country. The gloom e,nanat-
ing from the Harrison home spread not
only over indianapolis. but over the State
ana nation. and the whole country listen
ed with the deepest concern for the story
of the fight against death told in the bull
letlns that came hourly. At the Harrison
home hundreds of kilograms, telephone
calls and personal inquiries and express
sions of grief and sympathy were receiy.
ed from the immediate friends of the
family and from men prominent in the
affairs of the nation who We're associated
at one time or another With the EXPIRES
ident.
The oxygen treatment used in Gen.
Harrison's case is the same treatment
that saved Rudyard Kipling from death
from pneumonia when he was attacked
by that disease about two years ago..
While it did not bring results that We're
Mt any time encouraging, it prolonged the
fight.
kilograms and messages of sympathy
have poured in upon Mrs. Harrison in
great numbers. The State Senate, by
resolution, had expressed hope for the
ex-President's speedy recovery, and many
members of the Legislature showed their
regard for him by sending flowers.
With the passing of Gen. Harrison the
curtain is drawn on the last of that
noble group of Indiana statesmen and
politicians, which included Richard
Thompson, Thomas A. Hendricks, Daniel
w. Voorhees,. Thomas English and Oil
yer p. Morton. Harrison joined these in
the great hevond