The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-22
Tragic End OF Daughter Jeans
Has Fatal Effect on
King of HumOr
WAS WORN OUT BY GRIEF
AND ACUTE AGONY OF BODY
Samuel LanghOrn Clemens
Passes Away After Long Siege
of Angina PectOris
ALL EFFORTS TO PROLONG
LIFE PROVE OF NO AVAIL

n EDDING. Conn, April 21.-
X Samuel Langhorn Clemens
- C'Mark Twain') died painlessly
at $50 tonight of angina pcctoris. He
lapsed into coma at 3 o'clock this
afternoon and never recovered con-
sciousness. 1t was the end of, man
worn out by grief and acute agony of
body.
Yesterday was bad day for the
little knot of anxious watchers at the
bedside For long hours the gray,
aquiline features lay nodded in. the in
eritia of death, while the pulse sank
steadily, but late at night Mark Twain
passed from stupor in to the first nat
ural sleep he had known since he re-
turned from Bermuda, and this morn
ing he woke refreshed, even family
cheerful, and in full possession OF his
faculties.
Unequal to Conversation
He recognized his daughter. Clara
(Mrs- Ossip Gabrilowitsch). spoke a
rational word or two and, feeling him
self unequal to conversation, wrote
out in pencil:
Give me my glasses" q
These 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 o'clock DR.. Robert HaIsey. who
had been continuously in attendance,
said:
| Mr.. Clemens is not as strong as ha
was at the corresponding hour yester-
day, but he has wonderful vitality and
he may rally again.
/ Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain's
biographer and literary executor. said
to a caller who desired to inquire for
Mr. Clemens:
Il think you Will not have to call
often again"
Mr.. and Mrs. z. E LOomis, who had
come up from New York to give their
love in person, left Stormheld. Mr..
I Clemens house. without seeing him and
only heard of his death as they were
taking the train to New York again.
Mrs Loomis was Mr.. Clemens favorite
niece and Loomis is vice president Of
the Lackawanna railroad.
Oxygen Proves Useless
Similarly Jarvis Langdou. a nephew,
I FO- Taf
uniformed.
At the deathbed were only Mrs.
Gabrilowitsch (C1ara Clemens), her
husband. DR.. Robert Halsey. DR.. Quin-
tard Albert Bigelow Paine and two
trained nurses. Restoratives-digi
tails, strychnine and camphor-were
administered. but the patient failed to
respond.
A tank Of oxygen still stands. un-
called for at Redding station. Oxy-
gen was tried yesterday and the physi-
clans explained it was of no value. be-
l.cause the vaIvular action of the heart
was so disordered. There was only an
extreme and increasing debility. sc-
companied by Iabored respiration
Angina pectoris is a paroxysmal af-
fection of the chest. bafiing and OBJ
scure of origin. characterized by severe
pain. faintness and deep depression OF
spirit. The pain is severe and of an
oppressive. crushing OF stabbing char
acter. The attacks iscrease in fire.
quency and severity with uncertain In
termissions. sometimes of long dura-
tion, to a fatal termination.
Had Anticipated End
Mark Twain did not die in anguish
Sedatives soothed his pain. but in his
moments of consciousness the mental
depression persisted. On the way up
from Bermuda he said to Albert Bige-
companion In illness:
This is a bad job; we1l never pull
through with it
On shore once more and longing for
the serenity Of the New England hills.
he took heart and said to those who
noted his enfeeblement:
Give me a breath OF Redding air
once more and this will pass"
But 1T did not pass. and. tired Of body
and weary Of spirit. the old warrior
against shams and snobs said family
TO his nurses:
"why do you fight TO keep me sIives
Two days of life are as good to me as
four"
1t is to be recalled that Mark Twain
was for more than so years an invet-
crate smoker and the arst con5sctars