The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-02-02
DRUMMER BARROW DIES.
DENVER COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER
sUCcUMBs IN HOTEL.
HIS WIFE ARRIVES TOO LATE

Compelled to Wait In Denver for
Train All Day Saturday While Her
Husband Lay Dying, She Left Home
Just an Hour Before the End Came.
with no one but trained nurse at
his bedside and In the heart of n coun.
try whore he had worked for some
twenty years, Samuel j, Barrow, a
commercial traveller from Denver, died
late Saturday afternoon In his room at
the Pacific hotel His wife left Den.
yer an hour before his death in the
futile hope that she might reach his
bedside In time to see him alive. The
utter loneliness of his death was
voiced again and again by Mr.. Barrow
as he lay on the bordcrline Of con.
sciousncss and spoke necessarily OF
of his home and his family.
Mr.. Barrow was first taken i'll about
ten days ago at Oakdale and was un.
der the Doctors care there for cry
sipclas for week. On Thursday he
left his bed and came to Norfolk
against the advice of the physician
He had but II fortnights work before
he could return to Denver and his
family. He had decided to do this
work and then go home and regain his
health, but the strain of his trip to
Norfolk was too great. Thursday
night he went to bed very i'll and Fri
day morning Dr. Salter was called.
nI., hn ,VIy y,I ,IA .,
his chest and caused heart complica-
tiun for which he was treated at once.
His condition rapidly grew serious and
in the afternoon he became dclirious,
While in this condition he got out of
bed and came down into the lobby of
the hotel
Miss Cleveland was then called to
nurse him and did not leave his bed
side until his death late the next after
noon. TO her in his halrconscious mo.
mcuts he turned for relief from ms
inccssant pain and suffering. The
fight. which he had made against the
physicians and his disease, he gave
up and willingly did everything that
was asked Of him. He spoke of his
home in Denver and of his family and
lamontcd the fact that he could not
he there instead of i'm the hotel. His
consciousness at no time was great
enough for him to realize that he had
only a few hours to live and yet he
realized blndly that he was very sick
! indeed.
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he spoke continually, waited impa
ticntly from early Saturday morning
until in the afternoon for a train tC
bring her to Norfolk AS she left hel
home for the train a telegram reached
her announcing that Mr.. Barrow haC
but II few hours to live. In the futile
hope that he might live until she
reached Norfolk she took the train
only to receive word of his death {
! little later She was met at the trail
! by a number of the Knights of Pythia!
of which Mr. Barrow had been a mem
Der.
Mr.. Barrow was also member o
| the Royal Arcanum. He was lifty-fou
years old and leaves n widow and sev
en- children, one of whom is married
They all live in Denver The children
are: William f., Mrs. Alic Mot2ger
Mary E.; Alpha G.; Rosalie; Samue
j.; and Ida Frances. He was wei
known throughout this territory, hay
ing travelled through il as "A salesma
for over twenty years. He was en-
ployed at the time of his death by tn
Lauer, Stroll Co, of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Barrow returned to Denve
with the body this morning No SCI
vices were held in Norfolk