The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1910-04-26
Broken Hearted Over the
Death of His Daughter,
Hastens the End.
LAST HOUR PEACEFUL

Redding, Conn, April 21.--Samuel
Langhorn Clemens MARK Twain
died painlessly at $3.50 O'Clock tonight
of agina pectoris. lie lapsed into coma
at 3 O'Clock this afternoon and never
recovered consciousness. II was the
end Of man worn out by grief and
acute agony Of body.
Yesterday was q bad day for the lit
tie knot Of anxious watchers at the
bedside. For long hours the grey, aqui-
line features lay moulded in the inertia
ef death, while the pulse sank steadily,
but late at night Mark Twain passed
from stupor into the first natural sleep
he had known since he returned from
Bermuda and this morning he awoke
refreshed, even family cheerful, and
in full possession of all his faculties.
He recognized his daughter Clara,
Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, spoke a ra-
tional ward or two, and feeling himself
unequal to conversation, wrote out in
pencil:
WV hic NY kioSocs'
They were his last words. Laying
them aside, he sank first into reverie
and later into final Inconsistencies.
There was no thought at the time,
however, that the end was so near. At
5 clock DR.. Robert Halsey, who had
been continuously in attendance, said;
"Mr. Clemens is not SO strong o. this
hour as be was at the corresponding
hour yesterday, but he has wonderful
vitality and he may rally again"
/ Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain
biographer and literary executor, said
TO a caller who desired to inquire for
Mr. Clemens; ~ think you will not
haze TO call often again
Nevertheless, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Z.
Loomis, who came from New York to
give their love in person, left Storm.
/ field, Mr.. Clemens house, without see
ing him and only heard of his death
as they were taking the train to New
York again. Mrs. Loomis was Mrs.
Clemens favorite niece and Mr.. Loomis
is vice-president of the Lackawanna
railroad.
Similarly Jarvis Langdon, a nephew,
who had run up for the day, left even
earlier and wholly uniformed.
At the deathbed were only Mrs. Ga
brilowitsch (Clara Clemens,) her hus.
band DIR. Robert Halsey, DR.. Quintard.
Albert Bigelow Paine, who will write
Mark Twain's biography, and the two
trained nurses.
storatives-digitalis, stTychnine
and camphor-were administered, but
the patient failed to respond.
A tank of oxygen still stands uncaA.
ed for at Redding station. Oxygen
was tried yesterday and the physicians
explained that it was Of no value be-
caused the valvular action of the heart
was not disordered. There was only an
extreme aud increasing debility, accom-
panied by laborcd respiration.
extreme and increasing debility, accom-
Angina pectoris is a paroxysmal af
fection of the chest, of battling and
obscure origin, characterized by severe
pain, faintness and deep depression of
the spirits. The pain is severe and of
an oppressive crushing or stabbing
character. The attacks progress in FIRE.
quency and severity with uncertain i'm
termissions, sometimes Of long duration
To fatal termination.
Mark Twain did not die in anguish.
Sedatives soothed the pain, but in his
moments Of consciousness the mental
depression persisted. On the way up
from Bermuda he said to Albert Bige-
low Paine, who had been his constant
companion in illness:
"This 10 a bad job; we II never pull
through it,"
On shore once more and longing for
the serenity Of the New England hiIls,
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