Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-12
GENERAL GRANT
DIES SUDDENLY
Son of Famous Civil War
Leader Passes Away in
New York City
HEART FAILURE THE CAUSE
Mrs. Grant at Bedside in Hotel
Bears Shock With
Fortitude.

+! iBy Special Leased Wire to New Mexican,
4! New York, April 12.-BrigadieI
! General Frederick D. Grant, command
err OF the Department of the East. anC
I son of the famous Civil War general
died suddenly at midnight at the Hote
Buckingham, where he had been taker
secretly on Wednesday evening by
lis 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. 4 policeman stationed neal
! tie hotel had called an ambulance at
the request OF an employe, who told
/ that General Grant was choking to
death.
Heart Failure, Physicians Say.
According to Dr.. Robert Able, and
DR.. Edward B. Dench, his physicians
! the death of the general was caused
! by heart failure. He had been SUI.
fering 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 this city, suffering
! from a cancerous growth under the
, tongue, the safe affection which caus-
ed the death of his distinguished
! father, We're denied today by the hos.
pital authorities. Dr.. Able who mad
! been the generals family physician for
many years, refused to discuss the
subject.
Mrs. Grant at Death Bed.
Mrs Grant was with her husband
when he died. A nurse was the only
other person present. The first init.
nation that General Grants condition
had suddenly become serious was Civ
en- when Mrs. Grant telephoned to the
!hotel clerk about 11:45 o'clock.
The general is dying" she said
Historically. Get a doctor quick,
she added that he had been seized
with a choking spell. The clerk made
an effort to get Or. Able on the tele
phone. Failing in this, he sent a bel
boy to the physicians home nearby
The haste of the hoy caused Police
man Malloy to inquire what the trOu
BILE was.
General Grant is choking to death,
get DOCTOR was the boys response
,Malloy turned in an ambulance call
but before the hospital surgeon reach
ed the hotel both Doctors Able ant
Dench had been located and were a
the bedside.
End Came Suddenly.
To newspaper men who reached tht
buckingham shortly after midnight
efforts We're made by the attendants
to deny that General Grant was a
the hotel. Doctors Able and Dencl
sent down to the hotel management
statement in which they said: Gen
eral Grant died suddenly of heart fail
ure without premonition, at midnight
He had retired at II o'clock, appa1
emily in better condition than for sey
eral weeks. Since his recent trip, hi
condition had given no special anxiet.
to his physician. General Grant ha'
been suffering from diabetes and tn
attendant digestive disturbances
which seemed, however, to be pei
!, fectly under control. This suddel
: fatal termination came as a great sui
prise"
Relatives Notified.
: Lieutenant Marion Howse, principa
aid to the general, announced thi
morning that Mrs. Grant was bearin
, the shock with fortitude She d
, rected and messages he sent to Gen
eral Grants son, Captain Ulysses
: Grant, III, of the engineering corps i
Washington, and to his daughter, tn,
p Princess Cantacuzene, as we'll as t
l other relatives.
, May Rest in Riverside MosoIeum.
: Washington, D. c., April 12.-CaI
tain U. S. Grant, III, the only son G
3 the late General Fred D. Grant, di
lot learn of his fathers death in Ne,
l York until today. He was overcom
< and took the first train to New Yorl
!, No one here could make an author
t tive statement as to the funeral, no
: was it known whether the body woul
/ be buried in Arlington cemetery.
e was suggested the body might be pla,
0 ed in the tomb where his illustriou
:. father lies in the great memorial i
e Riverside Park, New York.
= General Carter to Succeed Gen. Gram
y Having been an officer of the higl
L est rank on the active list, in the arm
the late General Grant will be el
titled to an imposing military funera