Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-10-15
SUDDENLY
Col. Marcus Brunswick, q
Pioneer Of 80, Falls Dead
on the Street.
The STORY or HIS LIE

place ID place shat Col Brunswick VIZ
dead, stricken upon the street, ds Z,
Instantly apoplexy the cause -ats
occurred shortly before . o'clc i, ia
within i hair hour The saI IL s,n J. W.
had been spread through Al. sa,yn
No II Witnessed his An II, III.
not more than 4 .,omen, D. two
afterward the body IA aiscor cred Il.
ing upon the grou Nj i. nv geet from
~ siueMa'N - Are the entrance OF
''" hamtsrs. THE night
eilipe Montoya. and a
''s wy tsife passing were first to
hee ~ .ene iiptre under the electric
slsh. the corner. They ran I'M
nieai dars To fle door of M. II. Gort
Mk0 cunfa aulckls and lifted the
! I'm ri his rrms but saw at once thai
fsfo was gone. Thu l~IIfeless body was
carried 10 the colulel's own apart
iments q ftw feet distant which he lad
EFT, puFsibly fifteen minutes before.
In IS gsud health as usual. Doctor
Kaser was called from the Plaza hotel
and DTA. Mueller and Upton soan af.
forwards. but II was seen that death
had taken plars instantaneously from
an aroplectlc stroke.
TfM colonel had prepared supper for
himself In his WI room as he FIRE,
quantly did and then had walked leis.
nrsly over TO Charles lifcld'a residence
for il game III cards to mss the cycs.-
inm. All the Ilfcld home he found dec
orators had begun work Oh the walls
MD he concluded not to remain, but
10 return 10 his own rooms. Max
Nordhans, ON his way homeward from
the store encountered the colonel and
stopped for d little conversation aud
urged him To return 10 The house, or IL
not willing to do that, he offered TO
go back with the colonel TO his room
where they might have the proposed
game together, To this MIR. Bruns-
wick replied that he was tired and
would 30 on TO his apartments and
90 to bed, Scarcely Ave minutes
could have elapsed after this when
the fatal stroke foil as the colonel WINS
crossing the corner Of the square
under the electric lamp In front of the
Silva place. Thus ended the long and
active lie OF one of the Oldest resi-
dents and most prominent citizens 81
Las vegas and New Mexico.
Marcus Brunswick WAS born in
Posen. Germany, and on Saturday. the
18th inst, would have been seventy.
four years Of age, His only near rela,
tive living Ii q sister residing In Der.
lin, Germany. although there arc mum.
erons others less nearly related living
In Europe and America.
Mr.. Brunswick emigrnted from his
native place when n youth going irst
To England from whence he came e
the United States spending some time
In Philadelphia and later moving g
Savannah. Gin. IN tho early COS he
was a resident Of Weston. Mo, and
afterward Of Westport. now Kansas
levy, where he carried ON a harness
and saddlery business. W. II. Shnp.
remembers this well, nj he lived thers
when a boy.
His next business venture was as d
trader In the Indian Territory. From
this section he brought n drove of eat
! tie out 10 Bent's Fort on the Arkans
rs Just below where La Junta nov
= stands. This must have been aboul
. the year 1856. After This expedition
ho returned 20 the Missouri ant
/, brought out a large wagon train d
+, merchandise 20 Santa Fe where d,
sold Il out probably This was fol
/, lowed by two or more ventures OF thu
. same kind and then the colonel cam,
N Il &@ 49,
, 10 Las Vegas with d stock OF good
and opened up q store on The cofnel
of the plaza 1t one time on The SIT,
u buffalo hall and then whore no
! Nero Mercantile company,s store nov
Ii Afterward he removed his plac,
uf business 10 the old adobe know
! as the Padre poIacco store, which
was where the cast portion Of Charles
Fields building now stands
. Col. Brunswick was at various time.
largely interested In mining. havini
been engaged With the Dolds, Ma
! Lynch and Others III the building y
the Moreno ditch % work the Ellis