Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-10
THREE SISTERS DIE.
A MOST HEAkT.RkND1NG AFFAIR

"A MUST hEAkC.88NOlNO AFEA
Triple Deaths In tho same House and in
HALF An Hours Time.
Robert H. Winsmore. a retired sea cap
tain resided at No. 500 Wharton street
Philadelphia With Captain Winsmore
resided his wife. Mrs. Cynthia Winsmore;
her sister Mrs Sarah Watson, the widow
of 4 sea captain a lady companion, a Miss
Howell, aud domestic. About half f-past
10 o'clock on Saturday night Mrs. Watson.
who had been arranging with her sister for
a visit to the early service at Old Swede's
church in the morning, returned in ap
parent good health to her room Oh the
third floor front. Mrs. Winsmore returned
= few moments afterwards and going to
her room on the second floor front, was
surprised to hear means issuing from the
room overhead. Running hastily up stairs,
she was Mortified to find Mrs. Watson in
a comatose state and breathing heavily.
She at once sent Miss Howell for DR.. Nc
PhersOp, residing few doors above, and
a message for DIR. Benner, the family
physician, residing at Third and
Queen streets. DR.. Mcpherson arrived
in fow minutes and DR.. Benner
shortly afterwards, both of whom set to
work to admister the proper remedies.
Meanwhile the sight of her sisters suffer
ing had so affected Mrs. Winsmore that
she had to be removed to her own room OH
the floor below. The third sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith, wife of Captain Samuel
| II. Smith, residing at No. 1885 South
Fourth Street, about a square distant, had
| been told of the dangerous nature OF Mrs.
Watson's illness and came running arOusd
| to the house, which she entered almost out
of breath, and. passing rapidly up to Mrs
| Watson's room, entered it as the latter
was in the agOnies of death. The fright
and shock to Mrs. Smith were SO great
that she ran down stairs again, and, enter
ing the chamber of Mrs. WinsmOrs, who
had died while she was upstairs at the
bedside Of Mrs. Watson, she was taken
with what appeared to bc an apoplcctic tit
and almost Immediately expired. The
three deaths occurred within the half hour
from II to III o'clock, and within about
ten minutes of each other
The three women were large and appar
emily robust, Mrs. Winswore, the slight
est, weighing about 100 pounds: Mrs.
Watson about 200 and Mrs. Smith about
235 pounds. Mrs. Winsmore was So years
old. Mrs. Smith SO, and Mrs. Watson 50.
Mrs. Winslnorc leaves a husband and two
married sons, Thomas, the Oldest, resid-
| ing at 296 Federal street, member oil the
slip-chandlery firm of Cain & Winsmore,
Queen street wharf, and Robert j., resid-
ing at 2117 North Thirteenth street, and a
member of the ship broking firm Of ID. S.
Stetson s. Co., No. 100 Walnut street.
Mrs. Watson had no children, but Mrs.
Smith leaves, besides her husband, q young
lady daughter, Miss Bessie Smith. The
families are all in comfortable circum-
stances. The three sisters were said to be
singularly atfectionate to each other, not
allowing a day to pass without exchang-
ing visits or sending some little token of
remembrance or affection Mrs. Wins
more has been ailing lately, hut not to any
serious extent, while Mrs. Watson and
Mrs. Smith were remarkably healthy,
though the latter is said to have had few
years since an attack which at the time
was believed to be heart disease.