The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-16
RACE WITH DEATH
ACROSS COUNTRY
Senator Lea of Tennessee Arrives
in Denver With His Wife
Sick From Pneumonia.
ONLY HOPE FOR RECOVERY
Trip of 1000 Miles From Deer
Park, Maryland, Is Made
Since Wednesday Night.
ONLY HOPE FOR RECOVERY
BY Associa ted Press

DENVER, Colo. July 15-Revived by
CoIorado's exhiliratine mountain breezes,
Mrs, Luke Lea, wife of Senator Luke
Lea of Tennessee. lies tonight at the
her present condition being strongly fa-
vorable to ultimate recovery as the cul-
minatlon of the Lea's ocean to mountain
race with approaching death -.
Late today Senator Lea gave out the
following statement:
Mrs Lea stood the trip well. The
change in. climate appears TO have been
the most beneficial and gives encoura ge-
mont TO hope for her ultimate recovery"
SO quiet was the arrival of the Leas IN
Denver at o o'clock last night that even
officials of the Union Pacific. oyer whose
Omaha. knew OF the successful COM
petion of the 1000 mile race 10 save Mrs.
Lea's life.
Lea We're Mrs, Percy Warner and Mrs.
George Frazier. mother and sister. re-
spectlvely. DR.. II. Y. Frye. Mrs Lea s
physician and Miss Shackleford. 81 nurse,
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, July IA new and
thrilling chapter has been written in
the race between death and Mrs. Luke
the youthful senator from Tennessee.
Since "Wednesday night Mrs. Lea, ac-
companicd by her devoted husband. her
doctor. nurse and her mother and
sister. has been rushing across the coun-
Try from Deer Park Md. TO Denver In
A special Pullman car. in last effort
TO save her life
ened from the effects of an. operation
and living al the point OF death. Senator
Lea heroically submitted to TRANSMISSION
That remarkable operation. performed in
q washington hospital whereby Senator
Lea's stalwart young body was drained
OF quart OF blood in order to vitalize
f6r hnI, nf femDOT3
successful.
Senator Lea was confined TO his bed
for few days and then arose and be-
fore his strength permitted. went TO
the hearing of the I.orimer investigating
committee. of which he is member.
He had relapse and for the second
Finally he mended. Mrs. Lea. after going
through the ordeal OF the operation, after
being strengthened by the TRANSMISSION OF
blood from her husband gradually gained
strength and was taken about ten days
ago TO Deer Park. Md. There, In the
mountains. IT was hoped that she would
regain her health.
But II Senator Lea was practically re-
stored 10 health by the trip to Deer Park.
Mrs. Lea was not. The weather was
rainy and damp. In Mrs, Leas weak
veloped in both lungs. She suffered a
high fever and once more her life was
threatened. One of her lungs cleared
up but the other was still affected and
this emergency. with Senator Lea great
~ concerned over the failure OF his wife
20 recover, and with, the seeming Ger,
done to give her "A change OF climate. she
would succumb. II WAS determined TO re-
move her to PenVer ef naT pnysicIS5n Ian
had charge OF her from the time OF her
first Illness. told Senator Lea 1t seemed
Imperative to remove her,
A high altitude and a dry climate
goo mi indlSDpngnble Denver
selected because the Senator and Mrs
Lea have a home there and their two
young sons, Percy Warner and Luke j.
R.. are already there. In fact. before
her illness Mrs. Lea was preparing TO go
to Denver. Arrangements were made for
a Special Pullman car and "Wednesday
was removed from her quarters at Deer
Park TO the train on a stretcher. which
was hauled TO the side of the car on n
| truck and then. lying on the stretcher.
she was pnt through a window and made
as comfortable as possible. Not more
than five minutes was needed To pnt her
J aboard
| Mrs Lea was weak but cheerful as she
Every possible precantlon had been
taken TO make Mrs. Lea comfortable.
from here to the Rockies In hot weather
could not be dwelt upon. Grave fears
whether Mrs Lea could stand. the trip
were entertained by her friends and rcla ;
! tives, Not the least remarkable phase OF
tho affair Is tho heroigm displayed by
Mrs. Lea. In fact, from the first prior
10 the time she won't on the opera ting
table, she has been cheerful and opti-
mistic And when IT. came to going 10
Denver she insisted she was able TO en- =
dure the strain. She was The most cheer
will be In a large measure due 10 the
nerve and fortitude with which sho has
| the last few weeks faced death In vari-
| GUS forms