The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-13
HANNA ON VERGE OF DEATH
STRICKEN BY CHILL THAT AL
 MOST CAUSED HIS END.

stimulants Brought Him Back
 Another such Attack Might Cause
 His Deafh-PatIent Unconsctous for
 Four Hours-Reacted from chiII Late
 Last Night.
 Washington, Feb. 12.-Senator Hanna is passing through the climax of his illness and this afternoon it was feared he was dying, but tonight he rallied strongly and there is again some hope tha. 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 stimu- lants brought him through this after noon when he was sinking rapidly and possibly may again. It is now a ques- tion how long the climax of the fever will last, and how many and severe will be any Further acute attacks, for to- days spell was so severe that another probably would witness the end. To- days acute attack came in the form of a chill about o'clock and not long af- terward Senator Hanna passed into un- consciousness not to revive until around 6 o'clock. His pulse at this time ran up to 130 and was so feeble it was not per- ceptible at the wrist. Three hours or so later. however, he had shaken off the attack to so great an extent that Dr. Ogler, the Baltimore physician in att tendance. as he came from the sick room at 9:35 o'clock said that there had been a decided improvement and that the patients pulse was much stronger and had fallen nearly twenty points.
 Miss Mary Phelps. the senator's niece, was near at hand when the doctor came from the sick room. and when she heard the announcement of the rally she ask ed
 Then you have hope, doctor?" "Hope;" the doctor replied, "of course there is hope. When man rallies from sinking spell such as the senator had this afternoon and showed such strength afterwards there is the best ground for hope.''
 The first information from the sick room in the Arlington hotel to-day showed the fever to have attained the highest point yet reached, and the doc tors looked for the senator's tempera- tu-e to be at it's worst during the fol- lowing forty-eight hours, but it unex- pectedly lowered as the day wore on and developments seemed more favor able.
 At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, however, the high fever was succeeded by a sud- den chill which resulted in an alarming complication. Powerful stinulants were promptly applied. For two hours and half oxygen was applied continu- ously. and later more irregularly as it's good effects began to manifest them selves. At one time during the sink ing spell the pulse was scarcely percep- tible at the wrist, and the senator iapsed into unconsciouSness. Dr. Carr ter was alone with him at the hegin- ming of the attack, but Drs. Osler and Rixey were summoned immediately and on their arrival the three worker in- cessantly with their patient until the reaction came late in the afternoon. Prior to the sinking spell saline solu-s tions were given and strychnine in 1-30 grain doses were administered, but much more heroic remedies were resort ed to during the acute attack In the forenoon the senator had been we'll enough to be shaved, making the re- quest to his brother, H. M. Hanna
 The first indication outside the sick room that the senator's condition had taken a turn for the worse was when messenger was rushed in great haste from the hotel to a drug store It be- came known speedily that he had gone for oxygen. Mrs Hanna was out driv- ing at the time. but when she return ed she was promptly advised of the change that had taken place during her brief absence. and hurried to the bed- side of her husband. where she remain ed constantly throughout the period of greatest danger. As the messenger was hastened from the hotel for oxygen Miss Phelps. the senator's niece, came hur- riedly into the lobby of the hotel and summoned H. M. Hanna, brother, to the apartments upstairs.
 She remained and sent some dis patches.
 The news quickly spread that the sem ator was in a sinking condition, and the number of callers and inquiries which had come in greater number to- day than previously, were vastly aug nented. Subsequently, MT. Dover, the senator's secretary, announced to the newspaper men that he had just sent telegrams to relatives and some of the senator's friends announcing that an unexpected change for the worse had taken place and that the patients con- dition was critical. Those outside waited anxiously, and for several hours and all reports were decidedly discour- aging.
 At II o'clock the doctors issued the following bulletin:
 At Il o'clock Senator Hanna has re- acted from the chill and depression Temperature 1O1; pulse 12O; respiration B. He is quietly resting.
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