The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-24
Simply Suffering from Prostration and
Probably Would Be Better
After Sufficient Rest.
NEWS BROKEN AT WASHINGTON
COMMUNICATED TO COL. HAY BY
SECRETARY CORTELYOU.
Messages of Sympathy from the Pres
ident and Members of the Cab
meta. s. Hays Career.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 2S-The Hon.
John Hay, secretary of state, worn by the
trip of nearly nine hours from Washing
ton, D. c., to New Haven and nearly pros
trated by grief at the untimely end of his
oldest son, Adelbert S. Hay, here this
morning, reached this city at 5:45 o'clock
this evening. He was accompanied by his
| secretary. Mr.. Whitney. and was met at
| the station by r. L. McDuffy, of New York,
and Mr.. Charles Wade, of Cleveland o.
Colonel Hay gave evidence of extreme
! fatigue, and the mental agony incident
upon his great affiiction was Enthusiastically
| written on his features.
The secretary, with his party, immediate
! ly entered a carriage and was driven in
| great haste to the residence of Mr.. Seth
Mosely Sc Wall street In the drawing
| room of the house reposed the remains of
| the dead son. In the presence of the be-
loved dead Colonel Hay utterly collapsed,
and, prostrated by his great grief. took TO
his bed. DIR. Samuel D. Gilbert was sum-
moned and administered to the patient.
Scarcely more than an hour passed be-
fore Miss Helen Hay, daughter of the
family, we'll nigh prostrated by the shock
of the sad news, was at her fathers bed
| side. Meanwhile there gathered at the
Mosely residence other mourners for the
| dead. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wade, of
Cleveland, who are in the harbor on the
yacht wadena. were the first of the more
distant relatives TO arrive. r. L. McDuffy,
of New York city, another relative, re-
ceived the news in Cambridge, where he
had been in attendance upon the Harvard
commencement exercises of last week. He
reached New Haven in time to meet Col.
Hay early this evening.
This evening dispa tches were received
that Mrs. Hay and daughter, Miss Alice
Hay, are en- route from Newbury and will
reach New Haven tomorrow morning.
Clarence Hay, the younger son, is expected
late tonight Tomorrow morning from
Simsbury Conn.,, where he has been at
school. Mr.. Samuel Mather, of Cleveland,
brother-in-law Of Secretary Hay, with
his wife will also reach New Haven to-
morrow. At the Mosely residence tonight
1t was formally announced that no ar
rangements for the funeral will be made
until the arrival of Mrs Hay and Mrs.
Mather.
COLONEL HAY NOT SERIOUSLY ILL.
Late tonight DR.. Gilbert, who is at the
bedside of the secretary, announced that
the indisposition of Colonel Hay is not
serious. adding that he is simply over
whelmed with grief and that the prostra
tion will disappear after a sufficient rest.
The triennial class of '9S, OF which Adel-
bert Hay was a member. has gone into
mourning. New arrivals of the class. many
of whom heard the news for the first time
on reaching the college town, are shocked.
and 1t has been practically decided 10 make
no formal arrangements for a class recog
milton of it's loss until a fuller contingent
is present. There is a disposition the
part of many of the class 10 abandon en-
tirely the elaborate features of the trien-
NAL reunion and wait upon the pleasure
of Secretary Hay and the members of the
bereaved family.
HOW YOUNG HAY WAS KILLED.
The full details of the accident by which
Adelbert S. Hay lost his life will never
be known. Mr.. Hay had rooms at the New
Haven House for commencement week. 1t
is generally supposed. however, that after
going to his room he went the window
for air, and, sitting on the sill, he dozed off
and. overbalancing. fell to the pavement
below, a fall of fully sixty feet. The fall
resulted in instant death, and within fifteen
minutes the body had been identified as
that Of young Hay. How ii all happened
became a matter of speculation on the part
of the throng of curious spectators who
gathered and a subject of mournful inquiry
for the classmates and friends of the young
man. Half dozen physicians who were
hastily summoned We're unable to do any
thing, and the body awaited its disposition
at the orders of the coroner's deputy
Medical Examiner Bartlett. That official
pronounced II case OF accidental death
and reported to his superior Coroner Mix
The body was removed as soon possible
to the rooms OF a nearby undertaken
where it awaited Instructions from the
family. Repeated efforts 10 locate Sec
early morning hours, when a request from
the father reached Mr.. Seth Moseley. the
proprietor Of the hotel, TO take charge OF
the body until the members Of the family
Meanwhile the sensation occasioned by
the tragedy continued. Every movement
OF young Hay was traced in an effort to
penetrate the uncertainties of the awful
affair. Young Hay arrived in New Haven
last evening in time for dinner. and went
Immediately TO the New Haven House
where he was assigned 10 room No AZ third
floor. front, directly over the Chapel-street
entrance TO the hotel office. He was one
OF the vanguard of the academic class OF
Yale '9s. He had come TO his old college
town as a member of his class triennial
committee. and arrived early TO assist his
colleagues on the committee in preparing
for the festivities OF commencement week
in general and for the class supper in
particular. He took dinner with some OF
his classmates. and at o'clock hurried
10 the Hyperion Theater. where he wit
messed the evening performance.
wHIRLED THROUGH THE AIR.
Young Hay spent a quiet hour in the
hotel corridors and smoking room after
the theater. and shortly after midnight
retired TO his room. remarking TO the clerk
that he was sleepy and leaving a call for
8 o'clock this morning He wasvnot seen
again until his body came whirling through