Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1877 — The Last Moments of [ARTICLE]

The Last Moments of

The circumstances attending the death of Fraud Bartlett, the WeH-khbwn'dfrurcn baritone, who died on Saturday Ipt, ware particularly affecting and dramatic. He had been suffering for honte days from pneumonia, and he had endured great pain, On the evening of fiis death his friend, Mr. Coyle, went into Bartlett’s room and .found him looking mpch worsp than when he had left him* some little time before. J". ■ Fearing the worst, he sent for Dr. J. B. Gilbert, who fonnathht Mr. Bartlett’s bronchial tubes and air cells were filling up with a watery secretion, interfering with the absorption of oxygen and the exhalation of carbonic acid, thus rendering him unconscious. Btiinulahts were given in large quantities,-and L>r. Guernsey was sent for, and expressed the opinion that the patient had not more than fifteen mihutes to live. He rallied, however, and recognized many es his musical friends who were present. 1 * '• Dr. Gilbert, finding that the stimulants were not having much effect, suggested that some music should be played. Mr. Post accordingly sat down to the piano and began to play one of Mr. Bartlett’s favorite hymns, the tears meanwhile runningqdown his cheeks. In a minute or two the company Were startled to see the dying man rise in his bed and with great effort sing to Port’s accompaniment. “ He sang,” says Dr. Gilbert, " better than ever before, three or four hymns, bis listeners looking on in amazement." In a few minutes he safik back exhausted and fell into a stupor, from which he was again aroused at the sound of the piano, the familiar music proving snore potent than ail lhe other stimulants combined. Again he attempted to sing.'but the water which had accumulated in the bronchial tubes overflowed into the windpipe, Causing dibpsy of rite lungs l or strangulation, and the singer fell back dead.— Ji. Y. World.