The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-12
SURROUNDED BY PATHOS
SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. MARY
HINES YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
She Was on Her Way from Mobiles
VILE to California in Search
of Health.

A great deal of pathos surrounded the
death of Mrs. Mary Hines i'm the back or
Deschler's cigar store. at Meridian and
Washington streets, yesterday afternoon at
2:15 o'clock. Mrs. Hines was on her way
from Noblesville, where she and her hus-
band, Mack Hines, reside, to California in
search of health, being a sufferer from con-
sumption. Between trains she came up to
Washington street, doubtless to do some
shopping, and just as she reached the
northwest corner OF the streets named a
young woman who was passing noticed
the frail form at her side lettering and
swaying as If about to fall to the side
walk. The friendly stranger helped the
feeble sufferer into the store and asked
Mr.. Burk, the manager, If the woman
might be allowed to rest a few minutes on
the divan in the rear of the room. The
polite affirmative to this request was not
long out Of Mr.. Burk's mouth until blood
began TO leap in torrents from Mrs. Illness
white, thin lips. She was hurriedly placed
on the divan, and instantly the distressing
bodily heavings that almost invariably ac-
company death from hemorrhage Of the
lungs set in. There was no trace of physical
or mental anguish on the dying woman's
face. Disappointed in her fond hope of
reaching a land of sunshine and health,
she was granted the poor boon or an easy
death by the wayside. Only a few or the
convulsive gasps, each forcing out a crlul-
son stream, and the head fell forward
gently, as if the woman had fallen asleep
as she sat. The doctor who had been
hastily summoned, and who had made all
possible speed in reaching the place, came
up at this moment, felt the motionless pulse
and said solemnly, ''She is dead"
Aside from the red tide yelling from the
poor woman's lips, the only element or
ness of the scene was the disgraceful
wrangle that ensued between rival under
takers over the question OF which should
take charge of the remains. There ought
to be q law passed that would put an end
to such outrages as that" said a bystand-
err, who was disguised at the unseemly
strife over a dead body. We'll, L always
had a horror of DEATH" said another, but
seeing that woman die has'taken 1t away
/ never saw any one drop off TO sleep any
easier" Finally, the undertakers came TO
an adjustment of their difficulties, one OF
them brought in a box of Earring plain
ness and, with the aid of his assistants,
bundled the body in hurriedly, covered 1t
with q cloth, laid the wOman'S bonnet and
jacket on the corpse and the pathetic pro-
cession to the dead a at the curbing
outside concluded another of life's mex
plicable tragedies. Its all over" said the
clerk of the store to the open-m0uthed peo-
pie. whose presence interfered with the
of trade. The crowd slowly
melted away, a servant hid traces of blood
from view with a handful of sawdust and
the current of everyday life moved on as
If it had not a few moments before been
brought to a sudden halt. Mrs. Hines is
said to have lost a son in the government
year ago. Her husband is a retired con-
tractor