New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-22
MARK TWAIN DIES
At REDOING HOME
Succumbs to Angina Pectoris,
Worn Out by Grief and Agony.
at Seventy-four.
SUFFERS NO PAIN At END
"Give Me My Classes" Written
in Bed, His Last Words
Daughter with Him IN
Final Moments.

Reddfng, Conn. April ZI-Samuef
LanghOrne Clemens ("Mark Twain1
died at $50 o'clock this evening from
angina pectoris. He Iapsed into the final
coma at 3 o'clock this afternoon and did
not recover consciousness. 10 was the
end Of a man outwOrn 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 aquiIine feat
ures lay moulded in the inertia OF death.
while the pulse sank lower and lower,
but late AT night Mr. Clemens passed
from stupor into the first natural sleep
he had known since he returned from
Bermuda This morning he woke re-
freshed. even family cheerful and in full
possession of all his faculties.
He recognized his daughter Clara. Mrs.
Ossip GabrilOwitsch; spoke a rational
word or two. and. feeling himself un-
equal to conversation. wrote out in
pencil. Give me my glasses" Those
were his last words. Laying the glasses
aside. he sank first into a reverte 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 so strong AT this
hour as he was at the corresponding
hour yesterday. but he has wonderful
vitality. and he may rally again" Al
bert Bigelow Paine. Mr.. Clemens's b.
ographer and literary executor. said 70 a
caller WIN desired TO inquire for Mr..
Clemens. Il do not think you will have
TO call often again.
Death Not Looked For.
Nevertheless. Mr.. and Mrs e. z.
Loomis. who had come up from New
York to give their love in person. left
StormfeId. Mr.. Clemens's house. with
out seeing him. and only heard Of his
death just as they were taking the train
to New York again. Mrs. LOOnis was
Mr.. CIemens's favorite niece. Mr.
Loomis is vfce-president of the Della
ware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Similarly Jarvis Langdon. a nephew.
who had run up for the day. left town
even earlier. wholly uniformed of has
uncle's death. At the deathbed were
only Mr. and Mrs. Gabrilowftsch. Dr.
HaIsey, DR.. Quintard. Albert Bigelow
Paine. who will write FIR. Clemens's
biogra ply. and the two trained nurses.
Restoratfves. digitalis. strychnine and
camphor we're administered. but the pa
tient failed To respond. A tank Of oxygen
still stands uncaIled for ct Redding sta
ton. oxygen was tried yesterday. and
the physicians explained that IL was OF
no value because the valvular action OF
the heart was not disordered. There was
only an extreme and increasing debility.
accompanied by 1abored respiration.
Angina pectoris is paroxysmal affec-
tion Of the chest of battling and obscure
origin. characterized by severe pain.
faintness and deep depression OF the
spirits. The pain Is intense. and OF an
oppressive. crushing or stabbing charac-
ter. The attacks grow in frequency and
severity with uncertain intermissions.
sometimes of long duration. to a fatal
termination
Mr.. Clemens did not die in anguish
Sedatives soOthed his pain at the last.
but I'm his moments of consciousness be-
fore the final coma the mental depres-
sion persisted on the way up from
Bermuda he said 10 Albert Bigelow Paine.
who had been his constant companion
in illness: This is bad job; well never
pull through with It,"