New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-25

over to him. saying he felt dizziness and peculiar
pain near his heart. 1t was about fifteen minutes
after O'Clock when he walked along the main
corridor the ground floor of the hotel to within
a few feet of the elevator There he was seized
with sudden attack of apoplexy or vertigo. and
he fell backward to the floor. His body seemed to
be perfectly rigid he fell and the back of his
head struck upon the marble tling Of the corridor
with such force as to fracture his skull. Twenty
or thirty men were within a few yards OF him
when he fell, and several Of them ran forward TO
raise him up He carried into small ante
room the hotel desk and placed upon sofa
Dr. Finch the hotel physician. was called. and
later another physician summoned from the
Holland House. They worked over him for twenty
minutes in the hope OF restoring him to- conscious
ness but at length saw that life was extinct Colo
mel Coles wife called to his side while the
physicians were at work and she was taken In
fainting condition TO her room when she learned
that he dead.
Colonel Cole had been connected with the coal
and iron and railroad industries Of the South for
forty years He rose from a clerical place in the
employ of the Nashville Chattanooga and st. Louis
Railway Company to be Of the directors and
chief officials OF the company and when the roll
ing stock of the company was usel Tor the trans
portation of Confederate troops and supplies In the
Civil War he was made colonel IN the Quarter
masters Department to facilitate the use OF the
company's property He was interested later with
r Wilson W Walters ad and g IoIdq,e NJ MHgee IN IN
the south and in the development OF several coal
md irOn companies In recent years he Dtei
interested chiefly in iron manufacture, and while
he lived in Nashville he was the chief owner or
three blast furnaces in Alabama, Wnlch nave Deen
directed by his Whiteford Cole , 49,,
CoIoneI Cole was a prominent man in the Meth
odIet Eniscopal Church in the South, and was a
dractor Of the publications of the denomination In
TIC south and an officer In its missionary societies
fIIs second wife was a Miss Russell, or Alabama
1Ihree daughters and a son also survive him.
Nashville Tenn May "a (SpeciaD.-Colonel Ed
rourd w Cole who died suddenly In New-York
to-r,gbt was a native of this State, having been
,oro IN Giles County sixty-seven years ago. He
uos wealthy. and his residence four miles from
th,o ctv ON the Murfreesboro Turnpike. Is one OF
tho bandsomest in the State. Colonel Cole VINO
carro 70 this city when young man. made rapid
rrooress in the railroad business. and at one time
aued the office of president OF the Nashvihe Chat-
,apooqa and St Louis Railway, one OF the largest
Zines in the South He was for long time proni- @
Ilnes IA oonnected with banks In this city, ana was
nenty yd a one of the leading fnanciers In Ten
eseee He devoted considerable attention 10 iiluus MUS
tiaI enternrises and was largely interested III piop
erfv ~ This kind in Alabama ,u,,to. Tho
Eyolo,el Cole gave literally 10 cndiities. S
rennessee Industrial School one OF the aIees' @ anu
s'ccessfu Institutions in the STATE 90
os' q ~ him and some time ago ne gave $toy"
10 ,ha orSction of an auditorium WiiIcn was ueui
80 With impressve services cary III 'le ne ,
aar He was held in high esteem oy an " WIZ i,od
iSrn and the intelligence OF his oehth was i''e''u
with great sorrow