The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-04
"BOB' EVANS
 LAST CRUISE
ADMIRAL R. 9. EVANS, KNOWN AS "FIcHTiNc RoR", MEETS
 SUDDEN DEATH.
Apparently We'll and Healthy Yester- day Noon, He Succumbed to Ac- ute Attack of Indigestion
 in Two Hours.

Washington, Jan. 4.-Rear Admir- al Robley D. Evans, Fighting Bob' to an admiring snation, died suddenly late today at his home in this city. Acute indigestion ended the career of one of the most popular officers in the navy. He was i'll less than two hours.
 Admiral EyE.as, born 65 years ago in Floyd County. Virginia. arose today apparently in better health and spirits than he had enjoyed in some time. For years sufferer from old wounds sustained n tha Civil war and from reciTrent attacks of rheumatic gout, tfae aged fighter seemed to have shak en off the burden of hts advancing days. He displayed high spirits at breakfast and ate hearty luncheon at noon.
 While in his library at o'clock the admiral was stricken. Instantly his family sent for Dr S. S Adams, who. on his arriavl found the patient in great pain. After treatment Admiral Evans fell into a restless sleep ana 1t was thouGIht that the danger had passed Shortly after o'clock. how ever, he awakened, end, raising him self with difficulty announced that ne was choking.
 T can't get my breath. he said. and sank back. At 4:45 o'clock he died, conscious to the end.
 At his bedside at the time of his death were his wife, his daughter. Mrs Ii ssas~Ssaiii ~Ssaiii, his daughter-in law, Mrs. Frank T. Evans wife of the admirals only son. lieutenant com mander in the navy, now on duty on the torpedo boat destroyer Monahan at Boston. The cnlx. other member of his immediate family who was not present was his daughter, Mrs. Marsh wife of Captain Charles Marsh. com mandlng the armored cruiser North Carolina.
 The news spread with great rapid ity and caused profound shock in official circles. Former Secretary Of the Navy Metcalf who happened to be in Wash '.agton today pointed out that he had himself given Admiral Evans the command of the Atlantic fleet, in its cruise around the world the choicest assignment ever extended to an American naval officer in time of peace.
 One of the iron links that bound the oid navy to tine new, command Ing figure in each, was Robley D. Evans. He did not take kindly to the sobriquet of Fighting Bob'. for although of gruff exterior, he was a man of the kindIiest impulse. Thus it never was used In his presence by his friends. But his dauntless cour- age in times of great emergency the
 
 grim determination with which fe' faced overwhelming odds, and the sto- icism with which he bore his wounds and gazed unflinchingly in the race of death, made the title appropriate Chat as rFYighting Bob. he was known wherever the English languase Is spoken.
 Evans was a mere boy when he was sent to the naval academy at Anna polio Before he had got far with his studies the Civil war broke out, and throwing his books to the winds, he went to sea and was assigned to block- ade duty. It was in one of the two attacks made by the northern navy upon the powerful defenses at Fort Fisher, N. G., that young Evans re- ceived the wound through the thigh that made him cripple for life. He suffered three other wounds but as soon as he was discharged from the hospital he again plunged into the fighting and served until the end oi the war with great credit.
 With the ending of the war there came period of stagnation which marked the passing of the old wooder navy. Evans drifted for time into civil pursuits, althoueh never relin quishing his connection with the ser. vice. In fact, as soon as congress manifested it's purpose to meet th' insistent demand of secretaries Chan Ter ind Whitney for renovation 0 inc American navy. Evans came baci into the service and was one of tn