The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-10
SAMUEL G.. EWING
DIES SUDDENLY
Hotel Man Expires After Taking
Overdose of Digitalis.
WAS PIONEER IN THE WEST
INTERESTED IN MINING-PRo-
PRlEToR OF CULLEN.

q AMUEL c. EWING one Of the best
y known hotel men IN the west and
since 1871 prominently identified
with Ctahs mining interests. passed
away at 1870 o'clock yesterday after
noon, FIVE minutes after he had taken
an overdose OF tincture of digitalis The
medicine had been prescribed for heart
trouble. from which Mr.. Ewing had
suffered for several years. The indi-
Gated dose was ten drops, Mr. Ewing
swallowed q teaspO0nful The medicine
was taken i'm his room Al the Cullen
hotel, OF which he was proprietor
Within d few seconds Of his taking the
fatal draught, Mr.. Ewing managed 10
summon i. II. Cannon. an occupant OF
a nearby room, and his slster-in-laW,
Mrs. Alma Crandau. Mr. Cannon al
once secured Drs. T. il, Mona CHAN and
a. c. Ewing. The effect of dlgiLalis i'm
large doses is to paralyze heart action
and the physicians could do nothing.
With Mr.. Ewing when he passed away
We're Mrs Ewing DR.. Monaghan and
Mr.. Cannon Death came while Mr..
Ewing was unconscious, the powerful
drug taking deadly hold within few
seconds.
Mr.. Ewing was O. years old.
Grief Among Friends.
The news Of Mr.. Ewings demise
spread rapidly through the city at first
in the form of a rumor that he had
dropped dead from heart disease. Men
whose hair is gray and whose intimate
friendship with Mr. Ewing extended
over q period Of thirty-fVe years, Wept
as they received confirmation OF the
report from hotel employees Coming as
4
had been chatting with friends in the
hotel, the end was a shock which over
came the acquaintanCes OF the old gold
field days Of California and Nevada.
Nh. Ewing friends were legion, his
business having brought him in con-
tact with the mon VINO years ago laid
the foundations for industrial Utah.
Stroke Three Years Ago.
Mr. Ewing had been sufferer from
heart trouble fer three years. In 1902
while running for a car, he suffered
severe stroke. Since then he had been
attacked frequently
Last Sunday, while marching in the
Masonic parade, he became ill., DR.. A.
J. Hosmer was called in and prescribed
tincture of digitalis and aromatic spir-
its Of ammonia 20 stimulate heart ac-
ton. The last visit made By the ply
s clan was Thursday night when Air
Ewing appeared IN better health and
good spirits Dr.. Hosmer advised him
10 go 10 California as soon as ne could
make necessary arrangements AIR
arving animated rfIat~he would go TO
the coast with Mrs. Ewing and the in
FAINT daughter as soon as possible.
Tincture of digitalis is a strong drug
two drops constituting an ordinary
dose. DR.. Hosmer said yesterday that
IN his opinion death may have resulted
from fright on Air. EWing's learning he
had taken an overdose. as much as
from the action Of the drug itself.
Relatives of Mr.. Ewing.
Mrs. Sarah Ewing, mother of the de-
ceased, lives in Pittsburg, Pa. She is
in her eighty-ninth year. The father
is dead. There are two sisters, Mrs
Robert Stewart Of Lincoln university
Pennsylvania. and Mrs. Joseph Math-
ews Of Pittsbure. These relatives have
all been notified
Erastus Foote Of Tooele City was re-
lated indirectly to Nj Ewing. Nj
Foote'S son, Frank FOOte, married /. liz
zie Ewing, a sister Of the deceased.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Fo0te have since
died. Erastus FOOte is now in Salt
Lake, having been notified of Mr. EW-
ing's death by telephone.
Mr.. Ewing was related by his second
marriage to the family of Mrs Helma
Wahlstrom. His second marriage took
place a year ago last February. A six
weeks-old child is the result Of this
union. There were no children by the
first wife.
Mrs. George W Parks. wife OF the
mining attorney Of this city, is often
spoken of as Mr.. Ewings adopted
daughter. Mrs. Parks. although she
had looked on Mr.. Ewing and his frs.
wife as foster parents from infancy
was never adopted
Sketch of MIR. Ewing.
Samuel c. Ewing was born sept. Il
1888. in Oakdale. a suburb of Pittsburg.
Pa. His early years We're spent on the
farm of his father, John p Ewing The
westward no. spirit found n ready
follower in Mr.. Ewing. and. as a youth
of % years, he started for California,
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