The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-07
c. C. LATTA IS DEAD
Found Unconscious and Para
Iyzed in His Office.
He Was Paralyzsd as a Result Of Accident
in New York Year Ago When Struck
By Street Car.

Mr.. c. G. Latta, one of Raleigh's best
known citizens died at FIVE minutes past
eleven o'clock last night.
Stricken with paralysis at noon yester-
day it was hoped that he would survive
but these hopes were in vain. He was
semi-unconscious when found and never
spoke afterward.
His death is q distinct loss to the city
and State. He was progressive business
man, a manufactures interested in many
enterprises The news that he was strick-
en- with paralysis came as a shock to our
people, who were most deeply grieved to
learn of his death which followed in
twelve hours.
Just a year ago Mr.. Latta met with a
terrible accident while in New York. He
was struck by an electric street car and
so severely injured then that his life was
dispaired of. There was an injury to the
skull and after he was dismissed from the
hospital there was still clot formation
at some point about the brain and while
some physicians advised that the skull be
trepanned and the clot removed others
said that in time the matter would be
absorbed.
1t is supposed that from this clot the
stroke of paralysis came yesterday This
is the second stroke, for as the result of
the accident in New York Mr.. Latta was
partially paralyzed there and it was only
after months that he was able to be about
his affairs again.
Mr.. Latta was a busy business man and
has been about his affairs as usual. Yes
terday morning he went to his office
at the Raleigh Cotton Mllls about eleven
o'clock, and he appeared in good health,
had left home in that condition There
was no disturbance in his office that at
tracted the attention Of any of the en-
plcyees and when found Mr.. Latta was
unconscious.
He was found in this condition by Mr..
Horace B. Graesan, superintendent of the
mills. who at once notified his physician.
Dr.. Hubert Haywood, his family and some
of his friends. -as soon as it could be
done Mr.. Latta was carried from his office
to his residence on North Person street.
From the time he was found till he
died Mr.. Latta had not spoken. In addi-
ton to his family physician other ply
siclans were called In consultation and
all these considered his condition as ex-
tremely critical. though all hope for the
best, but their hopes were not realized
Mr.. Latta has never been physically
the same since the terrible injury which
befell him in New York He has shown
the same clear-headed business sagacity
and intellectual force. but there has been
apparent to his friends that he did not
have the same vitality as before He was
one of the leading forces in the projected
Fries Cotton Mill merger negotiations and
lately has assumed the duties of purchas-
ing for the Raleigh Cotton Mills, of which
he was the president.
Mr. Latta was well known as a leading
business man, not alone in Raleigh, but
throughout the State. He was about
fifty-four years of age. and had a most
charming family circle. Ho was the pres-
dent of the Raleigh Cotton Mills and of
the Neuse Manufacturing Company and
besides these was largely interested in
other enterprises. He was one of the best
types of the progressive Southern bus-
ness man and was highly esteemed in
social circles. His death is a distinct loss
to the city and the State.