Omaha daily bee., 1912-04-13
MAJOR GENERAL GRANT DEAD
Son Of Famous Commander Dies Sud.
-e denly in New York.
DEATH DUE TO HEART FAILURE
General. who wss supposed to BE
In the South, Had Recently
Moved from st. Luke's
Hospital TO Hotel.

NEW YORK. April I2-General Fred
eriek d. Grant. commander Of the De-
partment Of the East and son Of the
famous civil war general, died suddenly
al midnight at the Hotel Buckingham
where he had been taken secretly on
Wednesday evening b. his physicians.
His presence In this city was not known
until the news that he had been suddenly
stricken was flashed to newspaper offices
BY the police. A policeman stationed near
the hotel had called an ambulance at the
request Of an employe. who told him
that General Grant was choking to
death.
Although there hsd been rumors Of
General Grants illness and reports that
he would never again take up his duties
on Governors Island. the news Of his
death came as a distinct shock to the
public. According to DR.. Robert Abbis
and DR.. Edward b. Dench. his physicians,
the death Of the general was caused by
heart failure. He had been suffering for
some time. they asserted in an official
statement. from diabetes and attendant
digestive disturbances"
Recent reports that General Grant had
been in a private pavilion In st. Luke's
hospital In the city, suffering from
cancerous growth under the tongue. the
same affection which caused the death
OF his distinguished father. were denied
today by the hospital authorities. DR..
Abbie, who had been the generals fam
lily physician for many years. refused to
discuss the subject.
Mrs. Grant was with her husband when
he died. A nurse was the only other per-
con present s .-----,- .--
End Comes without Warning.
The first intLmation that General
Grants condition had suddenly become
serious was given when Mrs. Grant tele-
phoned to the hotel clerk about ii:s
o'clock.
The general 10 dying" she said. hys-
terically. Get q doctor quick. She added
that he had been seized with choking
spell.
The clerk made on effort 10 set Or.
Able on the telephone. Failing IN his.
he sent . bell boy to the physiciafrs
home nearby. The haste Of the boy
caused Policeman Malloy TO inquire what
the trouble was. .H.
General Grant is choking TO death. get
doctor was the boys response. Malloy
turned In an ambulance call. but before
the hospital surgeon reached the hotel
both Doctors Able and Dench had oeen
located and were at the bedside. The
ambulance surgeon and the policeman
who went 10 the apartments. were told
there they could DO nothing. DR.. Able
informed Coroner Holshauser that he
would file q death certificate promptly
and that no inquest would be necessary.
To newspaper men who reached the
buckingham shortly after midnight. ef-
forts were made by the attendants TO
deny that General Grant wAs at the
hotel The management finally was per-
suaded TO communists with the ply
sicians. who announced that General
Grant had died before their arrival \,
statensent Of Dectors. =.
prs. Abbs and Dench later sent down 10
the hotel management a statement. In
which they said; ss
oenefa oran' oieu suoosniy Oh hea,'
failure "'.hous premon,uon. ~ niehtn''
ne haa re'ireu NJ u oe'oeA appsIehuy IN
better condition than for several weeks.
since MS recent Trip MS eonoiuon mao
given special anxiety TO nus physician
General Grant had been surferinss from
diabstss and the attendant digestive dis
turoanees, which seemed, however, TO be
perfectly under control This sudden fatai
termination came as great surprise
Lieutenant Marion HOWE personal
aide 70 the general, announced this morn
ing that hss Grant was bearing the
snock with fortitude. She directed that
messasss De sent TO General Grants
son, captain Y. .. Grant third. OF tho
engineering CORPS N washington, and to
MS daughter the Princess cantscusene,
as Wen az TO otner relatives
Absent from Post for Month.
For more than A month General Grants
whereabouts had been a mystery. Follow
ing the announcement that he had been
granted four months leave Of absence,
expiring June /, reports were current that
an illness, believed by many TO be cancer
of the throat, had caused his temporary
retirement. These were denied at Gov
ernor's Isiyand. where II was stated re-