The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-03-21


peacefully. There was no tremor. 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 ques-
tion. He said nothing directly that gave
his family the impression that he was
dying. Tuesday the General said in a
disconnected way that he was suffering
no pain. although he complained of the
great difficulty in breathing. During the
night at 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-
tion in a cold he contracted about March
l and which developed into serious at
tack of the grip. Although he placed
himself under the care of a physician i'm
mediately. the ailment did not yield to
treatment readily. and in few days he
was stricken with pneumonia. For time
1t was impossible to learn Gen. Harri
sons true condition. Mrs. Harrison hav-
ing refused to 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.
At 2 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 momentar
lily. But the patient fought it off. At 8
o'clock there seemed to be some encour-
agement in his condition. although his
temperature was 104.4. DIR. Jameson
left the house at o'clock for 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.
The first really alarming news from the
sick room came at 8 o'clock in the fore
noon. An hour later DIR. Jameson an
nounced that Gen. Harrison's condition
was still worse and 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 were increasing rapidly.
Gen. Harrison fingered apparently Mt
the point of dissolution. Tuesday night
was long. anxious vigil to the watchers
at the bedside. and to thousands Of the
friends and admirers of the ex-President
all over the country. The gloom emanat-
ing from the Harrison home spread not
only over Indianapolis. but over the State
and nation, and the whole country listen
ed with the deepest concern for the story
Of the fight against death told in the bull
letins that came hourly. At the Harrison
home hundreds of kilograms, telephone
calls and personal inquiries and express
sions of grief and sympathy We're receiy-
ed from the immediate friends of the
family and from men prominent in the
affairs of the nation who were associated
at one time or another with the ex-Pres-
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 were
at any time encouraging. it prolonged the
fight.
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 OH
yer p. Morton. Harrison Joined these in
the great beyond