The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-15

from the senator's apartments with
the shocking announcement that the
senator had suffered another severe
sinking spell and had failed utterly 10
respond TO alt s.imulauts administered
to revive him.
This news came like q bolt from
clear sky. The hotel corridors had
been thrOnged throughout the day
with anxious inquirers as 10 the SEN
atCr's condition. The latest news from
the sick room caused a hush through
out the Hobbies. Afedin Mccormick, the
senator's on-iu-l9w. was dispatched
i'm haste fer more powerful stimulants.
These came. but the next report a few
minutes later said that tho Goct0rs de-
ciarcd the end 90 be only q question &c
perhaps minutes. bu, at most of hours.
Weaker After the Rally.
Then within a space of three minutes
the patient rallied. his consciousness
returned. and by the exertiOa OF his
wonderful viii power senator Hanna
seemed 10 pull himself together in what
the doctors and those at the bedside re-
gardcd as g most miraculous manner.
But the fight was by TO means won.
Although the afternoon relapse had
been rallied from ii had left d badly
weakened frame for future battles.
The restoTatives were continued and
the senator dozed again into stuPor.
Was Unexpected.
DR.. Cartcr's description of the sink
ing spell, made public shortly after
O'Clock was as follows:
At 1899 O'Clock a very unexpected
sinking spell came on. We at once
started work GA the senator but ne
failed 20 respond TO the restora tives ap-
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tirely disappeared from the wrise and
only a slight fiutter Of the heart could
be detected We kept applying other
stimuiants and finally got "a slight
response. Now he has a pretty good
pulse and also respiration. The spell
was decidedly worse tnan The one this
morning"
Asked as 20 the future outlook, the
doctor repliedS
we can only work and hope"
When the situation looked most
critical this afternoon the members of
the family We're assembled in the sick
room. AIRS. Hanna has been in almost
constant attendance at the bedside
Others in the room were the daughters
Ruth and Mabel respectively. Mrs.
Alediil Mccormick and Mrs. Harry a
Parsons. with their husbands: the sen
ator's son, Dan r. Hanna, and his
wife; II, u. Hanna, the senator's
brother, ard Miss Phelps, @ niece.
After the senator had made his
wonderful and unexpected rally. the
ladies, with the exception Of Airs.
Hanna, went out at the suggestion OF
the physicians for snort walks or
drives.
President Called.
President Roosevelt called to make a
personal inquiry shortly after noon.
Governor Herrick OF Ohio arrived in
Washington at $3.50 this morning and
went at once to the senator's apart
meuts Former Postmaster General
Charles Emory Smith arrived from
Philadelphia Postmaster General
Payne and Governor HeTrick lunched
together at the hotel where both re-
manned throughout the day in constant
touch with the senator's condition
Representative Dick spent the entire
day in Senator Hanns's apartment.
Speaker Cannon called more than once.
Secretaries Hitchcock and Wilson also
called. as did Senators Fairbanks. Plat
OF Connecticut Kean OF New Jersey,
Scott Of West Virginia. Mitchell OF
Oregon, SpoonPr and many others.
Legions of Friends.
Andrew Squire of Cleveland. a close
personal friend of Senator Hanna, has
been ia Washington several days
Clement a. Griscom Of philadelphia
spent The day at the Arlington and
Representstive Grosvenor made many
trips 10 the hotel during the day
Constant Geographic communication
with Cleveland. New York aud other
cities was kept UP and the relatives
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