The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-02-19
DEATH CLAIMS
MARCUS HANNA
Distinguished Senator Passed
Peacefully Away After
Two Month illness.
VAS a eRAvE STRUGGLE
WAS a a STRUGGLE
For Last Few Days He Was
Conscious Only at
intervals.
/ MouRNs
in the Death of Senator Hanna the
American Public Loses One of the
Foremost in State, Politics.
Capital and Labor.

Foremost in State, Politics,
Capital and Labor.
Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Mar
Gus Aurelius Hanna died at Gao O'Clock
p. m. Monday at the family apartments
extending over nearly two month.
filled win apparent ~recoveries followed
by relapses and finally drifting into
typhoid fever, which in his weakened
condition he was unable to Withstand
| When the end came all the members
of the senator's family were in the
room except Mrs. Hanna, the senator's
wife, and Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Hanna.
Mrs. Hanna had left the room only a
short time before.
The last sinking spell began at ex-
actly $50 O'Clock. Drs. Carter and
OSler were then in attendance. All
members IF the family were sent for.
Mrs. Mccormick, one of the senator's
daughters, and Miss Phelps. a niece,
were present when the end came. Mr..
n Mrs. Dan Hanna We're to first to
arrive n they withdrew Immediately
to the chamber of the senator's wife to
summon her to the bedside. 1t was
while they We're absent the senator
DfedlHeQ ms last.
In the meantime Mrs. Mccormick,
MIR. and Mrs. Parsons and Fl. NJ. Hanna
had entered the room. Mr.. Dover stood
In the door.
There We're no distressing incidents
attending the last moments. 1t was a
sinking spell which terminated in ten
minutes. Just after his eyes closed in
death Mrs. Hanna was able to come
into the room.
She bore up well under the ordeal,
and h is showing calmness and BRAY
cry. She had been in almost constant
on her husband though
realizing fully there was no hope for re-
.coVery Nevertheless the remon-
of the physicians. and the
added implorings Of her children that
she take some rest We're u%navailing I'M
I'll late in the afternoon, when she was
attacked by a violent headache. She
was given a narcotic and then she re-
tired to her chamber, but requested that
a a pc sent as soon as there appeared
to be "a change for the worse.
Kept Alive by StinuIants.
For the last two days Senator Hanna
had been conscious only at intervals.
and then only to obey mechanically
some instructions given him by the
physicians. Fourteen hours before the
end was announced life had practically
been suspended, the Pickering spark be-
ing kept aglow by the most powerful
scientific agencies.
Five minutes before death came, Cen
eral Charles A. Dick came from he
beoslue with h announcement:
He is worse, and has ONLY . few
minutes at the most"
That statement Immediately prefaced
the last official bulletin. which read:
senator Hanna sank gradually dur
ing the afternoon, n died quietly at
$40 o'clock
Mr.. Dover, the senator's secretary.
read the bulletin to newspaper men
were waiting. Word went over the
hotel like a flash. The lobby was crowd
ed n a score of friends we're waiting
IN MI. Dover's room. Though it was
known five minutes before that the
word probably would be the announce
ment that the senator had breatbad bie
last, h effect to his friends wa almost
that OF a sudden snock. No ATTEMPTS
were faade TO restrain grief. Senators
f~alfoanEs, Scott and ISittredge broke
the entire day and knew there was NO
but that proved no guard against
tears Which sprang unbidden to
their eyes and ran down their cheaks
General Die Wept his sorrow AZ t,1a
loss OF q friend Who had been a brother
spontaneously outbursts of unstinted
tribute We're heard on every side. Man
"iio are acknowledged leaders of the
parties, kings of finance ana
commerce, and men selected 10 serve i,
the highest positions in the nation
we're among those who expressed ~
;ouhtry,s 1mmeasurable loss.
FRIENDS at once took charge of rho
.uneral arrangements, which have hean
detailed elsewhere.
Snpatnrc orJ
ne Motel throughout the evening ana
many of the dead mans friends were
to the death chamber post
master General Payne sent v,ora -
resident Roosevelt. and he exnressad
leep sorrow at the fatal termination of
Illness. u
Last Ineligible N,.-~ds,
me last ineligible words spoken Nv
9sila,oT ianha We're pathetic in HIS
lt,sinpt 70 to the last tbs
iulhor Wh1ch was characteristic or his
lfe: Yesterday morning he moyed hiS
a slightly and his eyes rolled = ~
le to the right and then to the Iast
me nurse. IN close n,tiai
lated his want, and bending ia fla M
tents asked If he was ookine far
lis handkerchief. ior
IL think my wife has my %handker-
MET the senior Whispered.
Members of the family. ga roa
ny sign Of consciousness or %recopni
on me senator might display, We're
GIG or the remark. n they at once
ecoSn1zed 1T as one of his favorite re-
ninders In good M ,red plaguing In
fhieh Mr.. and Mrs. Hanna often in
ulged.
About IL O'clock yesterday tha son
tor became unconscious, and thera-
Iser, though the physicians and mem
,ers or the family strained every nerve
2 detect a return of recognition. the
e1ator did not speak a word thar fo,,Idd
e understood, nor did he appear to-
now what was going on about him
OCCASIONALLY he mumbled a few sounds
nothing could be made of Their
nd his little pleasantly were the last
tords spoken.
q Death Mask Is Taken.
ashsn II was known there was no
aneeS1or recovery Arrangements werc
II baye d death mask taken nv
Dunbar. and that was done
aily last e.erb1g. The cast win b.