The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-13
MRS. PAToN's DEATH.

Letters From Beirut and Damascus
 Giving Further Particulars.
 President Mackenzie, of the Hartford Theological seminary, has received let ters from Beirut and Damascus giving further details about the death of Mrs. Patton, wife of Professor L. B Patton, Iof the seminary. The letter, written In Beirut, was penned by ex-President F. w. Blatchford, of the American board, and was dated March 22 It added to previous knowledge the fact that Mrs. Patton died March 20. The letter from Damascus was written by W. s. Rich ards, the English consul in that city.
 Professor and Mrs. Patton were riding near Amman, intending to return by way of Iiberius. They were accompa- nied by Dr. and Mrs. Masterman and Miss Zeller, as sister of Mrs. Master man. They were about two hours out lon a journey from Amman. Consul Richards letter, dated arch 22, says:
 Mrs. Patton, who apparently was in excellent health and spirits, was riding Ia few paces behind her husband, Dr. Masterman being close behind her, when suddenly, without any warning or Iany apparent reason, she dropped her |reins, swayed slightly and dropped head first from the saddle just Gas misfor- tune would have it) where there was Q large, sharply pointed stone which ap- pears to have crushed the temporal bone right in. I have not seen the wound. of conrse. but this is what I understand from Dr. Masterman.
 And there she lay on the ground with this ghastly wound and the blood streaming from the nose and ears. She was unconscious almost all that day the accident occurred on Friday morn- ing-al1 Saturday and the greater part Iof to-day (Sunday) She never really lregained consciousness. They got back to Amman on Friday evening, and re- mained there all Saturday, Dr. Master man doing what he could with the very | few means at his command to arrest | the flow of blood. etc, and to give nourishment as far as was possible, a little milk and SC on; but fancy he re- alized the hopelessness of the case from the very first.
 This morning early they left Amman by the Mecca railroad, and reached Da- mascus at 4:30 D. m. The poor creature was then dead about two or three hours. Dr. Masterman gives the cause of death as fracture of the base of the skull 1 Mackinnon and I were at the station here to meet them with stretcher, and
 bearers. carriages, etc, and we went straight to our hospital, where the body lies at present. Dr. Patton, Dr. Master man and Miss Teller being the guests of 1 the Mackinnons. The burial will take
 place tomorrow afternoon in ourlittle l Protestant cemetery, pr. Crawford and
 MT Phillips being the officiating cler- 1 gymen.
 This is 9 most shocking thing, as sad
 a case as N have ever heard, and poor 1 Dr. Patton seems stunned. gather from what Masterman says that she must have tainted, because she fell from
 the saddle a dead weight, head down. wards. without putting out her hands or
 making the smallest effort to save her.
 self. Had she only put out one arm she was riding astride of the horse
 her life would have been saved She 1 had told Dr. Masternlan few minutes before that she had never been so hap
 py as she was then, never had enjoyed any excursion as she had this one. The i horse was going perfectly quiet and stopped as soon as she fell.