The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-02-13
HANNA IS SINKING
Senator Became Unconscious,
But Has Rallied.
THERE IS STILL HOPE OF RECOVERY
Attending Physicians Say the Case Ia
Desperate, hut ms He Has Come
Through the Present Attack
He May DO So Again.


He May Do So Again.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Although
Senator Hanna has had a sinking spell
and for a time his hearts action stop
ped, so that artificial respiration had
to be resorted to, he rallied perceptibly
when oxygen and powerful stimulants
had been administered.
After being unconscious for nearly
three hours the senator responded
slightly to the treatment and since
then has been in semiconscious con
ditiOn.
Despite this seeming improvement,
the attending physicians said that the
case was still desperate When the
oxygen treatment was discontinued
Senator Hanna breathed naturally, but
it was said that if he should have an
other similar attack he probably could
not survive it,
Nurses who were in the sickroom
during the crisis say the senator's vi
tality is wonderful.
Senators, Representatives and friends
and admirers of Senator Hanna stood
around the hotel corridors and spoke
in whispers about the struggle the
senator was making to rally from the
terrible attack which was slowly con-
suming his vitality.
The doctors have given out some de-
tails regarding the senator's attack.
For two hours and a half they gave
oxygen continuously. At one time the
senator's pulse was up to 1870, and at
another the physicians could not de-
tect it at the wrist. Then they did
not give any oxygen for about thirty
minutes and then only at intervals.
Senator Hanna was conscious and
talked two or three times Once or
twice the doctors could not understand
him, and then again they understood
when asked for something.
Mr.. Dover Mr.. Hanna's secretary,
said that the immediate critical crisis
had passed and that the doctors think
the senator is entirely over the sink.
ing spell. Mr. Dover added that the
senator is OF course no stronger and
If anything is weaker.
Miss Mary Phelps, the senator's
niece, who was in the room when the
doctor came from the sickroom and
heard the announcement OF the rally,
asked:
Then you have hope. doctOr|
"Hope?" the doctor replied "Of
course there is hope When man
rallies from IA sinking spell such as the
senator had and showed such strength
afteward there is the best ground for
hope"
Senator Hanna is passing through
the climax Of his illness, and II was at
one time feared he was dying, but he
rallied strongly, and there is again
some hope that he yet may win the
forlorn fight The odds are much
against his recovery. but the sturdy
physique of the man, aided by oxygen
and powerful stimulants. has brought
him through when he was sinking rap
idly and possibly may again. II is now
q question how long the climax Of the
foyer viii last and how many and Sc
we're will be any further acute attacks
for the present spell was so severe that
another probably would witness the
end.
The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
called to inquire for Senator Hanna,
and Mrs Roosevelt was with Mrs.
Hanna when the doctors announced an
improved temperature. The president
came later and remained in the sena-
tors apartments nearly half an hour.
when he was fully advised of his con.
ditiOu