The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-13
Sudden Acute Attack Of Yes
terday Afternoon Caused
The GraVest Alarm
DOCTORS STILL HOLD OUT
HOPES FOR HIS RECOVERY
Powerful Stlmulants Had to Be Given
During the Unconscious SpeII-A
Repetition of the Attack
May Prove Fatal.

Washington, February 12--Senator
Hanna Is passing through the climax OF
his Illness, and this afternoon 1t was
feared he was dying, but tonight he raj
lied strongly and there is again some
hope that he may yet win the fight.
The odds are much against his recovery,
but the sturdy physique of the man aided
by oxygen and powerful stimulants
brought him through this evening when
he was sinking rapidly and possibly may
gain. 1t Is not question of how long the
climax of the fever will last and how
many and severe will be any further
acute attacks for today's spell was SO Sc
we're that another probably would wit.
ness the end
Today's Acute Attack.
"Todays acute attack came in the
form of a chill about 2 o'clock and not
long afterward Senator Hanna passed in
to unconsciousness, not to return until
aroused at o'clock. His pulse at this
time ran up to 1870 and was so feeble 1t
was not perceptibe at the wrist.
Three hours or SO later, however, he
had shaken off the attack to so great an
extent that DR.. Osler the Baltimore ply
sieian In attendance, came from the sick
room at $50 o'clock, and said there had
been decided Improvement, and that the
patients pulse was much stronger and
had fallen nearly twenty points.
Miss Phelps Near at Hand.
Miss Mary Phelps, the senator's niece,
af hand when
from the sick room and when she heard
the announcement of fhe rally she asked:
Then you have hope, doctorY'
.Hppe,' the dnc p =. sptied, sof course
tnere Is hope. Whe. n Il rallies from
a sinking spell such as tsa senator has
this evening and showed such strength
afterward there Is the best ground for
hope.''
The first information from the sick room
in the Arlington hotel today showed the
fever to have attained the highest point
yet reached and the doctors looked for
the senator's temperature to be at its
worst during the following As hours. but
1t Unexpectedly lowered as the day went
on, and developments seemed more fa-
vorabe.
Succeeded by Chill.
About 2 o'clock In the afternoon. how
ever the high fever was succeeded by
a sudden chill which resulted In an alarm
ing complication. Powerful stimulants
were promptly applied For two hours
and half oxygen was applied contin-
uously and later more irregularlly as its
good effects began to manifest them
selves
AT one time during the sinking spell
the pulse was scarcely perceptible at the
wrist. The senator lapsed Into uncon-
seiousness with the sinking spell. DR.. Car
ter was alone with him at the beginning
OF the attack, but Drs Osler and Rixey
were summoned Immediately and on their
arrival the three worked incessantly with
their patient until the reaction came late
In the afternoon.
Stimulants Are Given.
Prior to the sinking spell saline sou-
tons were given and strichnlne in one
grain doses were administered.
but much more heroic remedies were re-
sorted to during the period of the acute
attack
In the forenoon the senator had been
well enough TO be shaved he making the
request TO his brother. II. M Hanna.
The first indication outside the sick
room that Senator Hanna's condition had
taken a turn for the worse was when a
messenger was rushed In great haste to a
drug store. 1t became known speedily that
he had gone for oxygen. Mrs. Hanna was
out driving at the time. but when she re-
turned she was promptly advised of the
change that had taken place during her
brief absence and hurried to the bedside
of her husband. Here she remained con-
stantly throughout the period of greatest
danger.
News Quickly Spread.
The news quickly spread that the sena-
tor was In sinking condition, and the
number of callers and inquiries which had
come in greater number today than at
any time previously. were vastly aug
mented.
Subsequently Mr. Dover, the senator's
secretary, announced to the newspaners
that he had just sent kilograms to rea-
tfves and some of the senator's friends an
nouncing that an unexpected turn for the
worse had taken place, and that the sem
ators condition was critical
Those outside waited anxiously, but for
several hours all reports were decidedly
discouraging. The attack yielded so slowly
and so stubbornly to the powerful stlmu-
lants administered that the gravest fears
began to be entertained that the end
might not be far removed Mr. Dover
called Governor Herrick OF Ohio and 9TH
ers in Ohio on the long distance tee-
phone and advised them of the serious
turn.
Mrs. Parsons. a daughter, and Daniel
Hanna, the senator's son, both In Cleve-
land, were summoned to washington in
haste.
In the Sick Room.
Mrs. Carmack. a daughter, was with
her mother In the sick room much of the
time Mr.. Fisher, also secretary to the
senator, was kept busy at the telephone
answering inquiries from the capitol.
and public officials throughout the city
who had been advised by news bulletins
of the senator's sudden attack while
large number of others called In person
at the hotel.
About 7 o'clock Mr.. Dover announced
that the senator had been unconscious
some time, and that he had tried several
times to speak to the1 doctor but was too
weak The doctors asked the senator to
aid them in the application of oxygen by
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