Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-14
The Deathbed Surrounded By
Sorrowing Friends and Rel
atives, Who Awaited
the Anticipated Call.
His Last Thoughts and Discon.
nected Utterances Were
Concerning the Beers
and their OPP
press0rs.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March IL.
Gen. Harrison died at 4:45 o'clock
this afternoon.
Surrounding mis- bed at the time
of death we're Mrs. Harrison, wife
Cincinnati, and Mrs. Morris. of
Minneapolis, sisters of the general;
the physicians, DR.. Henry jane
son and DR.. Z. o. Dorsey; W. II.
H. Miller, ex-Attorney General; f.
T.. Tibbetts, the Generals private
secretary, and the rurse.
Neither Mrs. Mar Harrison Nc
Kee nor Russell b. Harrison,
daughter and son o. Gen. Harrison,
was present when the end came.
Both are on the way to this city
and they are expected to arrive to-
night.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March IA
General Benjamin Harrison died at
4:45 O'Clock this afternoon without re-
gaining consciousness. His death was
quiet and painless, there being a
q sinking until the end came,
winch was marked by a single gasp
Tor breath as life departed from the
body of the great statesman. The rela-
tives, with a few exceptions, and sey-
eral OF his old and tried friends. were
at the former Presidents bedside when
he passed away.
The Generals condition was so bad
this morning, after a restless night.
that the attending physicians under
stood that the end could not he far
Off, and all bulletins sent out from the
sick room to this effect, so that the
family and friends were prepared when
the. final blow came. The gradual
failing of the remarkable strength
shown by the patient became more
noticeable in the afternoon and a few
moments before the end came there
was an apparent breakdown on the
part of the sufferer, as he surrend-
cred to the disease again which he
had been so bravely battling for so
many hours. The change was noticed
by the physicians, and the relatives
and friends who had retired from the
sick room to the library below, were
quickly summoned, and reached the
bedside of the General before he pass
ed away.
News of the Death
spread quickly through the city, and
several of the more intimate friends
at once hurried to the Harrison resi-
dence. The word was flashed from the
bulletins of all the newspapers and
thus communicated to the people on
their way home in the evening. The
announcement produced the greatest
sorrow. Within a few moments the
flags on all the public buildings and
most of the downtown business
blocks were hoisted at half mast and
other outward manifestations of
mourning were made. None of General
Harrison's children were present at
his death. Neither Col. Russell Har-
rison nor Mrs. Mckee had reached
the city. although both were hur-
1ying on their way to the bedside OF
their dying parent as fast as steam
could carry them.
Elizabeth, General Harrison5s little
daughter, had been taken from the
sick 70 by her nurse, before the end
came.
The group at the bedside included
Mrs. Harrison, William H. H. Miller,
Samuel Miller, his son; Rev. DR.. NJ.
L. Haines, pastor of the First Presby-
serian church, which General Hagri-
son had attended for many years;
Secretary Tibbett, Drs. Jameson and
Dorsey, Col. Daniel Ransdell, SER
g~eant-at-arms Of the United States
Senate, and a close personal friend
Of the dead ex-President; Clifford Ar
rick and the two nurses, who have
been in constant attendance. General
Harrison's two sisters and an aunt
were also present,
Mrs. Harrison Kneeled
at the right-hand side of the bed, her
husbands right hand grasped in hers,
while DR.. jameson held the left hand
of the dying man, counting the feeble
pulse beats. In a few moments after
the friends had been summoned to the
room the end came. DR.. Jameson an
nouncing the sad fact. The great ST.
lence that fell on the sorrowlag
watchers " the bedside vac brokea