Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1901-03-15
President Of the United States Passed
Away at His indianapolis
Home Wednesday.
SlXTY-ElGHT YEARS OLD
The Great Statesman and Constitutional
Lawyer Was Unconscious at the
Time Of Final Separation.

INDIANAPOLIS, I'M, March 13. Cen
eral Harrison died at 4:45 o'clock this
afternoon without regaining conscious
ness. His death was quiet and painless,
there being gradual sinking until the
end came, which was marked by 1, sin
glc gasp for breath as life departed from
the body Of the great statesman. The
relatives, with a few exceptions, and sew
eral Of his Ola and tried friends were ;st
the bedside when he passed away.
The generals condition was so bad
this morning after \ restless night, that
the attending physicians understood the
end could not be far off, and all the
bulletins sent out from the sick room
were to this effect, SO Tint the family
and friends were prepared when the
final blow came. The gradual failing Of
strength shown by the patient grew
noticeable in the afternoon and few
moments before the end there was an
apparent break down on the part Of the
sufferer as he surrendered to the disease
battling for So many hours.
The change was noticed by the physi-
clans, 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 passed away.
News of the death spread quickly
through the city and several of the more
intimate friends at once hurried to the
residence to offer services which, how
ever, were not needed. The word was
bullctined by all the newspapers and
thus communicated to the people on
their way home in the evening. The
announcement produced the greatest
sorrow. Nearly everyone had entertained
the hope that General Harrison would
recover.
Within a few minutes all the flags on
the public buildings and most of the
down town blocks were hoisted at half
mast and other outward manifestations
of mourning were made
None of General Harrison's children
was present at his death. Neither Col
onel Russell Harrison nor Mrs. Mckee
had reached the city, although both
were on their way to the bedside OF their
dying parent as fast as steam would bear
them.
| General Harrison had been uncOnz
scious for hours before his death, the OK
act time when he passed into comatose
state being hard to determine. Tic spoke
to no one today and failed to recognize
even his wife. The greater part of
Tuesday, too, he WAS in q semi comatosc
condition, although he was at times able
to recognize those at his bedside. At
that time he recognized and spoke to
Mrs. Newcomer, his aunt, who had lust
reached the home.
One Of the most pathetic incidents Of
his illness occurred on Tuesday. before
he became unconscious. His little
daughter Elizabeth, was brought into
the sick room for q few moments and
offered her father a little pie which she
had made. General Harrison smiled his
recognition Of the child and her gift, but
the effort to speak was too much and he
could do nothing more to express his APP
probation.
Today all efforts to arouse the slowly
dying man to consciousness failed and
he died without Il word Of recognition to
any of the loving ones who surrounded
him.