Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-09
UNABLE TO BREATHE, COM
RADEs QUIT WORK TO PRO-
LONG HERBERT'S LIFE.
DIAPHRAM Was PARALYZED
Profoundest Pathos Attendant
Throughout NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Up 10 the Last Moment.

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tificial respiration for SO hours and
q quarter breaking all medical rec
ords for this part OF the country, If
not the entire world, j. w. Herbert,
the young iron worker employed on
the county courthouse, who was sud
denly stricken with paralysis of the
respiratory organs at o'clock We'd
nesday afternoon, died at 9:l5 o'clock
last night. His father and mother,
MIR. and Mrs. j. ID. Herbert of Okla
homa City. and BROTHER and one sis
ter We're at his bedside when he died.
Tso brothers We're rushing here as
fast as modern traffic would allow,
from Kansas and Nebraska
The end came suddenly as the at
tending physician, DR.. p. IL. May
ginnes had stated to newspaper re
porters a few minutes before that he
though it likely Herbert would sur
yive the night. Death, 1t Is said, re
suited from paralysis of the dia-
phram spreading to the heart.
Constant and Heroic Measures.
Conscious up to the time of his
death, Herbert's case presented one
of the strangest cases In the medical
history in the southwest. He was
working on the courthouse Wednes-
day afternoon. having been a member
of the Structural Iron Workers union,
a union which has come into much
prominence through the connections
of the McNamaras with it. Suddenly
about o'clock on that day, he com
planned of being i'll, and went to his
room in the Almeda hotel. At 4:SO
o'clock Dr. Mayginnes was called and
pronounced the man dying. Herbert
complained of trouble of breathing
pr. Mayginnes realized that heroic
measures We're ecessary and he start
ed working the sick mans diaphram
up and down with his hands, work.
ing at the rate of rs to 100 strokes
to the minute. This brought relief,
and Herbert was enabled to breathe
in this manner. A minutes hesitation
would have mean death.
Comrades Quit Other Work.
Fellow workmen, when learning of
their comrades condition volunteered
their services, and quitting all other
work, served in relays, pumping the
diaphram up and down every instant
from o'clock Wednesday afternoon
until 9:15 last night, when the end
came.
The young man was 29years-old,
and came here few months ago
from oklahoma City. AS soon as his
condition was found to be serious,
his relatives We're called. His father,
mother and sister, were in Oklahoma
City and reached here Thursday. One
brother came yesterday and two
more we're on their way when death
put an end to the remarkable case.
"Iteep Pumping Boys" Ee said
A touch OF pathos unusual was add
ed to the case Thursday. Realizing
!. that he was dying, and before his pa
rents had arrived the stricken man
whispered to his savlors: Keep
pumping. boys, l want to live until
my parents come"
All during the long ordeal, the
man was conscious with the eXcep-
tion of two or three times when he
tok short maps, following complete
exhaustion by the continual working
up and down of his body. He was able
to tall, at oil times, and conversed
with his relatives and attendant
The careful attention of the fellow
workmen. who gave up their busl-
ness so as to be of any assistance pos
sible, was extremely touching and
portrayed in profoundest terms that
little term of misfortune makes all
the world akin"
number of times during his last
illness, Herbert was given nourlsh-
ment in the form of water and milk.
The body will probably be removed
20 the family home in Oklahoma
City to-day for burial.
Case BARRED Physicians.
Aside from the pathos surrounding
the case, the medical history of i'll
presents an interesting feature. Big,
strong and all his life in the best of
health, never knowing a days sick
ness Herbert was suddenly stricken
with the strange malady on the ori-
gin of which physicians differ. In SO
hours he was dead. y number of To-
cal physicians who examined thej
man presented as many different
theories Of the case. and all were
frankly more or less puzzled. In ad-
dition to the Tulsa physicians. num-
Der of out Of town doctors were con-
suited. DR., Roliiter. q specialist, OF ]