The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-21
All Day Sunday Procession of
People Passes Bier of Famed
Author and Sobbing Popu-
lace Outside Pays Tribute.
COUNT LEAVES ORDERS
FOR SIMPLE FUNERAL
Death Watch During Night
Broken by AweSOne An
nouncement of Passing of
Loved Spirit to Other World.
THEATRES DEFY POLICE

4 SRAPOVA, Russia, Nov. 2O-Peas-
"a ants all day long passed through
the death chamber, hung with
pine bOughs. where TOist0I lies
Many of them kneit beSids. his bier
The sileaee al times was broken by
orthodox chants for the repOse Of the
dead.
Countess TOIstoi sat beside the bod,
for hours.
The light Of the world is out" she
said repeatedly. She left the hut only
10 attend mathis in the school chapel
expecting that a requiem would be
sung. When informed that this was
not permitted, she tainted.
Aolatol Ielr a written wish that he be
nuLiea Mithout pomp wreaths o. rites.
under Poverty Oak on a hill0ck AT
1asna}a POliana. where he PLAYED as a
enid and where the pea SAINTS were ac-
customed 70 congregate. The funeral
VIII De held on Tuesday and the police
have just been modified To prevent
public demonstration
the crowd that gathered around the
Hut where Ioistoi lay diving In the early
HuhuaA morning hours awaited breath
lessiy a verdict of DR.. ThtchurowsIlv
and br. JsOff, two OF the leading heart
Specialists Of Moscow, who had been
hurrledlE called into consultation.
Tile former had carried TOlstOi safely
thtpush "a similar crisis in sol i'm the
Cflmea and the hopes of the people
rested on him.
less than hsf am hour. Tolstoi failed
20 recognize either OF the physicians
and asked.
Who are these strangersq"
When informed, he said; What fine
men
No Ray of Hepe,
In spite of their natural reluctance
10 spread discouragiug reports, the con-
suIuhs physicians could not hold out
raw OF hope However, they hoped 10
lessen the pain of the aged patient
whose parting hours were mercifuIlv
free from physical suffering HIS heart
succumbed shortly after he had come
from under the influence Of an injected
stimulant- He died without regaining
consciousness.
In the interval between the last two
attacks OF cardiac failure. the patient
seemed TO he comfortable and his face
was clear of pain. Throughout a heart
breaking night a motley crowd made up
Of the most varied elements ina ENABLE
pressed around the low hut. There
were distant relatives OF the aged au-
thor, Iolstolans, villagers and many
churchmen, among them the Abbot
Narsetonius who did not lose hope un-
iii the end Of seeing TOlstoi ana ex-
tending 10 him the olive branch ON be-
half or the church.
All alike stood Spell-bOund. know
ing that a matchless personality was
departing as the Sunday dawn dis
PEELED the raw November night.
Virtually the whole population OF
AstapOva was there. Then a voice from
the hut came quietly: LEO Nicholae-
Vich TOlstoi is dead
SQUADS Of sObbIng
There was q moment OF silence. Then
every head was barred and there were
sounds everywhere OF sobbing.
One called out His heart was
bursted by his unbOunded love for hu-
mantty,' and this and similar phrases
ran from mouth 40 mouth from the
weeping Russians gathered there
Later IN the day all the peasants in
the district flOcked here. None was
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