The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-06
ARCHBISHOP CORRIGAN DEAD
PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY AT
 1f:2O LAST NIGHT.

A saddon Turn for the Worse Short
 Time Before--In the Afternoon Ills | Condition Seemed so Much Improved | That the Physicians Thought an Evening Visit Unnecessary-His Last Words.
 New York, May 5.-Archbishop Cor rigan died at 11:2O o'clock tonight. AL though he had a good day to-day and
 was talking to his secretary at twenty
 minutes to II o'clock his heart gave
 way at 11;2O o'clock. One of the train
 ed nurses noticed the sinking spell com
 ing on and at once sent for Father Cur
 ley. He called the other priests from
 the rectory and cathedral and all wait
 ed until the archbishop breathed his
 last five minutes later. The end was
 most peaceful, the last breath passing
 without evidence of pain.
 Dr. Reyes and Dr. Delafield, the arch
 bishops physicians, held consultation at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and found the prelates condition so much improv- ed that Dr. Delafield was delighted and pr. Reyes said that he did not think it necessary to visit the patient in the. evening and he did not return The archbishop was visited during the ev- ening by his two brothers, Father George Corrigan of Newark, N. J., and Dr. Joseph Corrigan of Gate City, Fla, as we'll as by the son of the late named, Joseph Corrigan, jr. He talked with them and With his English secretary Father Curley who came in about lO:3O o'clock and with him conversed until 10:4O o'clock
 The nurses were moving about when at about quarter to Ii they noticed that the archbishop was breathing with more difficulty than usual.
 They tried to aid him by restoratives, but he did not respond His breathing became still more difficult until at II o'clock he was evidently in great pain. It was then necessary, in the course of the treatment laid down by the physi- clans, to administer a heart stimulant, as it was evident that the heart action W dS ldlIlHS' tlS leiliNu Ao iClANN V i'i''4' and the nurses then notified Father Curley of the prelate's seriousness con- dtion.
 Father Curley sent for Dr. Reyes and all the priests and relatives of the arch bishop.
 There were present seven priests and the archbishop's two brothers, Father Corrigan and Dr. Joseph Corrigan, and the latter's son Joseph, the nurses and 
 All got to the room just in time to see the prelate breath his last,
 After examining the body Dr. Reyes said that death had been caused by fatty degeneration of the heart. The Illness really dated from the end of February of this year when, 1 in going through the Kelley memorial l chapel in course of construction at the | rear of the cathedral he fell between ! some beams and to keep himself from falling to the floor below he had to hold l himself up by the armpits The strain | was very great and before he recov- | cred from the effects of the accident he ' was attacked with pneumonia, It was thought that he was out of danger, but 1 his condition Sunday night was bad [ md he was unable to rally In his weak aned condition.
 Dr Reyes after making his examina- ion tonight, said: "The condition of | he archbishop to-day was excellent. At 2:30 o'clock when pr, Delafield and [ consulted pr. Delafield was so de- iehted that he told the archbishop he . night get out of bed Wednesday and 'it up for a while. The archbishop had been propped up in bed all the after loon. I was so pleased with his fine that I did not think it neces- jary to go to the house to see him to- night"
 The coadiutor bishop of the diocese if New York, Bishop Farley, is in Rome md the highest dgnitary here Is Vicar General Joseph Mooney. ..
 Father Curley said that the last words of Archbishop Corrigan probably we're: q feel very weak"
 The nurses" said Father CurIey, knew a stimulant was necessary and e was given an enema of nitro o-glycer- ne, but this proved in vain Father ieorge Corrigan then administered the postolic benediction and they waited or the end''
 Father Curley wrote cable to the ioly See in Rome informing the pope the death of Archbishop Corrigan nd he made an effort to notify Bishop 'arley. He sent cables to all the large ities of the continent endeavoring to )cate him. He will be the administra- 1r of the diocese until a successor of ne archbishop is named. Mgr. Mooney as had charge of Bishop Farley's l, 'ork since lis absence.
 STATE SUSTAINED.