St. Paul daily globe., 1890-11-11
KILLED BY EXCITEMENT.
A Veteran Spectator Expires in
the Pit.


New YORK, Nov. 1O.-The big clock
on the wall of the stock exchange
wanted fifteen minutes Of IL O'Clock.
when trinity built man, whose hair
was gray, entered the Wall street door
He Was James StrutherS, and he walked
Slowly and with evident effort through
the crowd to the center of the room.
Men who knew him ana who saw him
pass, now when they talk of his death
say he acted as if there was something
the matter with him. They were too
busy to pay much attention TO sick
man just then-tOO busy watching the
rise and fall of the markets. 1t was
11:50 when StrutherS reached point
on the floor between the stands
of the New York Central and
the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois.
Grouped there were c. B. Gunther, E.
.. Read and Mr.. Francis. AS Strnth-
ers came up. behind Read he tottered
and brushed past him. Read was busy
with the market, and wnen he half
turned and saw Struthers, he said. petu-
lantly: Jimmie, don't do that. I'm
busy" The tottering man paid no at
tention to this, but kept on. The next
man he reached was Gunther. He fell
squarely up against Gunther, who
stepped back to get out of the way.
This permitted Struthers to fall to his
kuees. From that position he tumbled
forward on his face. Then Gunther
and Read Jumped to his side and turned
him over on Ills back. But there was
no mstaking the look on his face. He
was dying, while the frantic crowd
shouted out their bids for stocks and
announcements of sales. A messenger
was hurriedly sent for DIR. Hewitt, who
is member of the exchange. He came
seven minutes after Struthers had
fallen. He saw the case was hopeles, and
III three minutes he said StrutherS was
dead. As soon as it became known,
President Dickerman stopped the noise
by mounting the rostrum and announc-
ing the death. He said business would
be suspended for half an hour on ac-
count of the death, whereat scores of
brokers rushed off to make up their ac-
counts. Gray-coated attendants of the
exchange brought Stretcher, and the
body was taken up to the third story, to
one of the directors rooms. The presi-
dent called up the board of governors,
and there was an informal meeting, the
result of which was not made public.
In the interval Coroner Levy came and
examined half dozen witnesses. DR..
Hewitt said he believed death was
caused by apoplexy. To Charles s.
Slruthers, nephew of the dead man,
the coroner gave permit for the re-
mUval of the body, which was taken to
an undtrtaker'S. The nephew said the
family had expected this all along. Mr..
Read told the coroner how StrutherS
had pushed up against him and how he
fell
Il knew he was stricken by death when he
went down, he said. Il knew and felt that
nothing could save him. He had a very
serious illness within the past two years. and
has not been himself since. We fused to see
him asleep III his chair down stairs and no.
tice how bad he looked, and it was common
TO hear a man say:
Poor Jimmiel He's looking pretty bad.
He'll go off suddenly some day."
Sharp to the minute of 1890, exactly
one hour after the recess had been an
nOunced, the president again mounted
the rOstrum and made the official an
nouncement of the death of James
Stl uthers, late member of the New
York stock exchange. Then, as he
stepped down, there was a rush and
shout, and business had once more been
resumed on the floor. Mr.. Struthers
was fifty-eight years old, and was
member of the firm of James Struthers
& Co., long since dissolved. He leaves
a wife and young daughter. He lived
at l23 East Fifty-seventh street. The
business of the consolidated exchange
was seriously interfered with owing to
the Stoppage of QuOtatio from the
stock exchange during the thirty min
uteS that the latter was closed.