Arizona republican., 1912-04-12
Frederick D. Grant Sue, cumbs to Attack of Heart Failure Just
 at Midnight
ENTIRE COUNTRY
 SHOCKED BY NEWS
Generals Death Com e s Twenty-Seven Years After That of His
 Famous Father
lASsOciated Press DiSbatchl

NEW YORK. Aprtl 1E.-MdJOr Gen eral Frederick Dent Grant. son of the famous general of the Civil War, himself commander of the department of the east. died at the ho.el Buck ingham in this city about 12:4O this ! (Friday) morning.
 Between and 70 last night (Thursday) General Grant was ! brought to Buckingham from St. Luke's hospital He was accompan- 1 jed by Lieutenant Howe. Of Cover nors island, and General Grants wife. | The cause of death was not made known when word of the death was sent to the hotel desk.
 The news flashed from the apart ments sent a shock through the ciiy such as that which startled the country upon the death of his father | twenty seven years ago. The news this time was far more 1 sudden. IL came less than an hour after the first alarm was sounded that General Grant was seriously Ill. | Alarm itself had come before it had been learned that the general was in ! the city. His presence here was kept | a secret.
 Get physician. the general is dy- ing"
 ! This telephone message received at | the night desk of the Buckingham at 1 l11:SO was the first news. l A bell boy was dispatched to the | office of pr. Abbey nearby physi- | cion but he was not there. Mrs. Grant was so informed and chafing al the delay cried back hysterically:
 "Get an ambulance: get anybody" An alarm was sent to police head quarters from which a ambulance was dispatched. Calls put in at ran dom for physicians in the Fifth aven- ue district within a minute or two i were responded to.
 When the ambulance arrived four minutes after the alarm it was said General Grant was probably dying. He was in too dangerous condi- tion to remove and the ambulance drove away At midnight the general died. Half an hour previous to the alarm his condition had aroused all
 the newspaper offices at most Of
 which the reports were regarded with I
 ence here was unknown. Many news paper men were on the scene in a few minutes. but as none was allowed
 to go to the apartment. the exact state of affairs was a matter or doubt until an end was put to all
 doubt when the hotel clerk was heard
 to repeat over the telephones: | General Grant is dead
 The first report as to the cause of
 death was choking, but later it was
 said heart failure. following diabetis, attending digestive disturbances, was the cause.
 The following statement was made at o'clock by the attending physi-
 clans Abbey and Bench:
 "General Grant died suddenly oi heart failure without premonition al midnight. after retiring at eleven, ap- narentlv in better condition .han for
 several weeks He had returned rom 2 recent trip, much improved, ana
 was looking remarkably well and viz | orous. His condition since his return
 has given no especial anxiety ana
 his physicians. who had been witr him in the afternoon, congratulated
 him on his good health. He exprsseI : himself as feeling rejoiced at his renewed strength.
 1 "General Grant has been suffering from diabetis. attendant upon diges-
 tive disturbances. which seemed, now
 ever. to be perfectly under control.
 "This sudden fatal termination came
 as great surpsise His wife anC nurses were with him at the time : His phvsicians who were called. fount f the heart had stopped instantly r The general was removed to th' hotel yesterday from St. Luke's wher' unknown to the public generally. h'
 had been taken for treatment. Prev
 ions announcement from his aides ha'
 been made repeatedly that leave O
 absence had been granted him, no t on account of a serious illess. bui on . l,, for rest He was said to be in tn south.
 General Grant was born May S'
 1850. in Missouri, and entered yves 1 Point in 1866.
 MEMPHIS. April 12.-General Gran
 was held in high esteem by the vet
 erans of the Confederacy. At a rec ent reunion here Gen. Grant, wh was visiting Memphis. participated I
 n review of the veterans in the gran Iparade. General Clement A. Evans
 then commander in- chief of the wear
 CTS of the gray. mounted on a mag
 nificant white charges. leI the pro I, cession.
 II As he passed the reviewing stan VI