El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 247, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 25, 1892 Page: 2 of 8
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MRS. HARRISON IS DEAD.
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Washington, Oct 24.—Mrs. Harrison
ih no more. At 1:40 came the end. For
the second time in the history of the
White house, a president's wife has
died within its walls. Mrs. Iiarrison
met death with the patience and resig-
nation of a devout Christian and her
last days were free from pain. For
twenty four hours the present anc
family had been almost constantly at
her bedside waiting the end. Last
night the president slept but little, if
at ail. He was frequently in and out
of the sick chamber and never away
for any length of time.
During the night, hour after hour
slipped away, each leaving the patient
weaker in turn, yet so gradual was the
decline that'it could not be said posit-
ively at any minute that she had ma-
terially failed. The measure of the
ebbing tide was the respiration which
slowly sunk from about If) at nightfal
to 12 at midnight. The physician salt:
if she lived over that she might possi-
bly survive the night. These was vis-
able a look of relief when the clock
sounded twelve and one critical point
was supposed to have been passed. The
hope inspired by the doctor’s last state-
ment was only of short duration.
About 12:.'i() o’clock while he sat ny
Mrs. Harrison’s side with his lingers
lightly pressed on her pulse, the
practiced hand discerned a noticeable
weakness of the heart’s action followed
almost immediately by a slight de-
crease in respiration, lie notified the
grief stricken family gathered around
Die couch, that the end appeared to be
very near and unless she soon rallied
from the stupor into which she then
was drifting, sit© could scarcely
live an hour longer. This intelligence
had a most depressing elect upon the
president who lias been in constant at-
tendance upon his allllcted wife for
over nine hours, and he sustained him-
self with the greatest difficulty. If it
were possible to add to the gravity of
the situation and to stimulate the
agonized apprehension of the sorrow-
ing family gathered about the scarcely
animated form of the beloved wife
and mother, those results were
attained, and Dr. Gardner, after nar-
rowly examining the countenance anri
feeling the pulse of the dying woman
sorrowingly stated that the
indications showed she could not last
more than half an hour. The minutes
Mew past and at Hie half hour the most
helpless form still retained the sacred
speak. 'I lie resistance offered by the
constitution of the patient was sur-
prising to the physicians and all at the
bedside. There was no struggle, no
exhibition of pain, but a passive resis-
tancethat was beautiful in its quietude.
Dr. Hardener took up the feeble hand
and felt, the wrist. The blood still crept
through the arteries, but oh, how slow-
ly. He shook his head and said that a
brief fifteen minutes must surely fin-
ish the struggle. The agitation of the
family could no longer be controlled,
and realizing his utter helplessness to
longer cope with her formidable foe.
and from consideration for the s acred-
ness of such grief as this the physician
and friend bowed himself and passed
out of the room, outside of the
threshold he took his station
and waited. It, was not a long
time. ‘The minutes Mew like sec-
onds and suddenly there was an
expression of heart striken woe and
Die end had come. The president was
beside his dying wife as he had been
for nine boon continuously end hie
we* the lest of the loved features her
eyes bed met upon. Her breath was
labored end very slow as the hands of
the clock crept toward the next hour,
it grew fainter yet and lees frequent
and as the time piece marked the hour
1:40 o'clock there was an interruption
of the feeble breath, a resumption and
then a stop this time to be the last and
life bad gone ont peacefully and quietly
and without pain.
All of the family in Washington were
present at the death bed except the
three little grand children and the
veierable Dr. Scott, the father of Mrs.
Harrison. The members of the family
spent a few minutes around the life-
less clay. When they emerged with
sorrowful faces, the president retired
immediately to his own room and
closed his door. The other members
of the family respected his evident
wish and allowed him to remain un
molested to contemplate his great
bereavement and commune with his
maker.
Telegrams conveying the sad intelli-
gence were also at once dispatched to
all members of the cabinet and Mrs
Harrison’s brother, who is in the hope
of seeing her before the end came. He
was at Port Townsend yesterday.
The funeral arrangements were com
pleted as follows: Religious services
will be held at the White House Wed-
nesday morn from whence the remains
will be taken to the cemetery of Crown
Hill Thursday.
The history of Mrs. Harrison’s last
and fatal illness is best told in the lan-
guage of her physician, Dr. Frank A.
Hardner of this city, as follows:
“Mrs. Harrrison’s illness was the
outcome of an attack of grippe during
the winter of 1890 91, which left her
with a cough lasting for several weeks
While at Cape May, in the summer of
1891, she contracted a cold, which oaus-
ed a return of the cough and it lasted
during the entire summer. She was
well enough, however, during the win-
ter to attend to the exacting func-
tions devolving on the mistress
of tlie White house, but in January
1892, the cough, which really
never left her, again began to trouble
tier considerably. While it was not
severe enough to confiue her to the
louse, it was suilicient to require fre-
quent, medical treatment. In the fol
lowing March, she had a second at-
tack of the grippe, followed this time
by oatarrahal pneumonia, lasting some
days. The coughing spells increased
in severity until at last they were ac-
companied by bloody expectorations,
and about the first, ef May she suffered
from a hemorrage of the lungs which,
although not very severe, caused great
prostration. In an examination of the
lungs several days later revealed a dull-
ness at the apex of the right ling.
Fratn this time until July 0, the date
of her removal to Loon ,.ake, N. Y.,
there was a rise of temperature of
about three degrees each night and the
respiration at that time averaged about
forty per minute. Several days after
her arrival at Loon Lake she began to
improve. Her appetite and strength
increased and the fever gradually be-
came less. The cough and expectora-
tion also diminished. Subsequently
she was able to take daily drives of
several miles, but this improvement
was of short duration and an
examination made September 1,
showed that the upper half of
the right lung was completely
consolidated notwithstanding this con-
dition she was able to continue her
daily drives up to September 7th, on
which date she was striken down with
an attack of sub-acute pleuresy, ac-
companied by an effusion of flbro.
Sicrous Muid completely filling the
cavity of the plura on the right fftde
necessitating aspirating or tipping
three times. It was during the exist-
ence of this complication that a con
sultation was held by Dr. Gardner, of
Washington, Dr. Goulas, of New York
and Dr. Trudeau, of Saranac, New
——
York, resulting in Hie issuance
September .4 of ai bulletin to
the public announcing that Mrs. Hat-
rison was afflicted with pulmonary
~— —-----—_ pulmonary
tuberculosis. Complicated with pieu-
risy and nervous prostration and that
the result was uncertain at the time of
Mrs Harrison’s removal to Washington
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§ept. 29th,the right long was entire y
consolidated. The disease progi eased,
steadily resisting treatment with every
known remedy until the left lung be-
came involved. Then the condition
of the patient was hopeless.
The case was complicated
from the first by the extreme nervous-
ness which persistently resisted every
remedy known to medical science.
About the first of May the case assum-
ed a serious phase. Dr. Frank JS.
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Douglass of New York, a physicTonof
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skill has visited her at short
intervals. Soon after the plaeretic
complication set in Dr. Trudeau, who
has a sanitarium at Saranac
Lake, New >ork for the treatment
of cases of tuber culosis was also call-
ed in consultation. He agreed with
the other physicians as to the serious
nature of the disease and was not able
to offer the president least encourage-
ment as to the result. Certainly noth-
ing within the knowledge of the medi-
cal profession tend to alleviate her suf-
ferings or lead to relief, out was tried
but to no avail.
Mexican Central’* Trouble*.
San Luis Potosi, Mex., Oct. 24.—The
shops of the Mexican Central railroad
in this city and in the City of Mexico
are again in operation, but a large
number of Americans who were em-
ployed as skilled machinists are still
Iinportaxit!
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Special Sale this Week
KXTR.YOUM NARY INDUCEMENTS TO
CASH BUYERS.
WE OFFER FOR
out, the company refusing to accede to
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their demand for an increased schedule
of wages., A number of old locomotive
engineers of the road have lately been
removed and their places given to non-
union men who were imported from the
United States.
THIS WEEK ONLY
Fn*lnn in South Dakota,
Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. 24 —J. M.
Greene of Chamberlain, S. D., chair-
man of the Republican state central
committee, has just been informed of
the withdrawal of the Democratic can-
didate for governor and the Democra-
tic elector ticket and the majority of
the state ticket. The name of Abe Van
Osdel of Yankton, People’s party can-
didate for governor, will be substituted
for that of Peter Couehman of Walsh-
worth county, the Democratic candi-
date. The names of the People’s party
candidates for electors will also be sub-
stituted for the Democrats. “This
means fusion in South Dakota.”
KeKiMtration in Denver.
Denver, Oct. 24.—The registration
which closed here Saturday night
shows a total of 33,889, an increase
over last year of 7,000 names. There
has been many charges made by the
various parties that false registration
has been carried on to considerable
extent, but as yet but three or four
arrests have been made.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 247, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 25, 1892, newspaper, October 25, 1892; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth581239/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.