The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-02-16
SENATOR HANNA YIELDS TO UN-
EQUAL STRUGGLE.
-,'O COMES WITHOUT PAIN
Surrounded by Members Of Family
Famous ohioan Passes Calm
Iy from Earth.


Washington, Feb. 15.-Marcus A.
Hanna, United States senator for
Ohio, died in his apartments at the
Arlington hotel at 6:40 o'clock this
evening of typhoid fever, after an
Illness Of two weeks. He passed
away peacefully and without pain, af-
ter being unconscious since 3 a. M,
at which time the first OF a series OF
sinking spells came on, from the last
of which he never rallied.
Ali the members Of the family,
with one or two exceptions, were at
his bedside when the end came. They
were Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hanna, Mr.
and Mrs. Mccormick, Mr.. and Mrs.
Parsons, Miss Phelps H. NJ. Hanna
and Secretary Dover.
During the last hours life was kept
in his body by the use of the most
powerful stimulants.
Mrs Hanna was not at the bedside
when the end came. She had been
i'll with a severe headache, and a
short time before had been given a
narcotic and she then went to bed.
Senator Hanna's death followed a
sinking spell that lasted 10 minutes,
beginning at 6:3o
. Senator Hanna will be given a pub
lie funeral in the senate chamber at
noon Wednesday, and probably lie in
state at the capitol. The funeral will
be held in Cleveland on Friday.
Beoins to Fail.
Since early this morning the dis
tinguished patient failed steadily, and
all efforts to rouse him were without
effect. The sinking spells which com
menced early in the morning, and
which recurred later in the day, had
so weakened the patient that all hope
for his recovery was abandoned, and it
was then realized that he could last
but a short while longer. The crisis
came when SHORTLY after 8 o'clock
the senator had another sinking spell,
Doctors Osler and Fdteher were hur-
riedly summoned and together with
Doctor Garter worked over him for
nearly an hour As he did not re
spond to their efforts, Dan Hanna was
notified of the serious turn in his
father's condition. "A consultation fol
lowed, and it wsa decided to awaken
the entire family The members Of
the family remained close afterward,
coming and going from the senator's
room to the siclS chamber.
All through the. rest oil the day the
effort Of the doctors was a fight for
prolongation of lae without the faint
est ray Of hope. The watchers at the
bedside expected the end momentar-
lily.
The senator passed the day practi-
cally without nourishment of any kind.
being too weak to retain it. The
household had become resigned to the
inevitable outcome, and sadly waited
the final summons.
Shortly after O'Clock word come
from the sick room that the sick man
was simply wasting away.
Mrs. Hanna, worn out with the I'M
ceasing watch she had kept by the
senator's side since the inception of
the illness, had been persuaded to go
into another roop, and tired nature
had forced her to sleep just before
the end came. She was not present
when her husband passed away.
At $50 o'clock there was a severe
sinking SPELL Doctor Osler realized
that dissolution was at hand, and he
hurriedly summoned the family.
'3The end is very near" he said to
them. Sorrowfully they passed into
the chamber just before life flickered
out
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