Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1913-04-04

HAD Been ILLS0ME time
FInancier Attacked by Indlges.
ton Early in February.

Rome, April IL. Pierpont Nor
gan. the great American tinancier.
died at the Grand hotel here.
Announcement of the death was not
made to the waiting newspaper men
for some time after the end came, the
information being held up until pri.
vate cables could be sent to the Lon.
don and New York houses of the Nor.
gan firms.
The end came peacefully, while Nor
gan was still unconscious.
Herbert L. Satterlee, Mrs. Satter-
lee, daughter of the financier; Profess
sor Bastianelli, Doctors Starr and Dix
on and other members of the Morgan
party were at the bedside, but for
hours before his death the banker
gave no sign of consciousness.
Morgan passed away after a week
Of critical illness and he was for the
most part unconscious since last
Wednesday. The last words he ut
tered were said on that day, when he
aroused himself and asked that his
legs be massaged, treatment that
before had relieved him when he suf
fered from nervous disorders. :
Attacked by indigestion. :,
Early in February, while Morgan
was making a trip up the Nile to his
excavations in a specially construct
ed boat, he was attacked by acute in
digestion and lapsed into a state Of
coma in which he remained for twen-
ty-four hours. He was rushed to Cairo,
where physicians and nurses were in
waiting.
Professor Bastianelli was summoned
from Rome to attend the banker.
Morgan already had engaged immedi-
ate passage to Naples aboard the liner
Caronia and specialists from Paris
and Berlin had been cabled to meet
him. But Bastianelli vetoed the trip,
knowing that his client was in much
more serious condition than was ad-
mitted. Morgan was persuaded to re-
main in Egypt until March 10, when
he sailed for Naples aboard the liner
Adriatic.
BY that time he had recuperated
sufficiently to travel without especial
danger, but those who saw him when
the Adriatic locked at Naples knew
that he was very sick man. He had
to be carried from the steamship
aboard special train which was wait
ing to carry him to Rome.
Morgan was rushed to Rome as rap
idly as possible and placed in quiet
suite in the Grand hotel, where Doc
tors Dixon and Bastianelli were in
constant attendance.
Doctors Always Present. q
Four nurses from the Anglo-Ameri-
can Nursing Home were In constant
attendance and doctor and nurse
were with him every moment Dixon
and Bastianelli ordered complete rest
and except for brief afternoon drive.
with Mrs. Satterlee, Morgan did not
stir from his room.
Easter Sunday the f1nancier was
stricken with a recurrence Of acute
Indigestion and was ordered to bed,
where he lost strength rapidly, and it
could no longer be denied that he
was in critical condition.
Morgan's death was due to lack of
nourishment. From Sunday Of last
week the doctors could not induce the
patient to eat, because of lack of
functional vitality in the nerve cen
ters. The refusal of throat muscles to
do their duty made it impossible for
Morgan to swallow. 4,s
The doctors resorted to feeding by
injection, but expressed the fear that
such liquid food as could be admins
tered in that way would not keep him
! up long. Sunday night it was discov
cred that Morgan was not assimilat-
ing even the liquid diet and then the
doctors knew it was matter of hours
until his death. fg4
He had no illness and suffered no
pain, but wasted away simply because
his body was incapable of nourishing
itself by reason of the inactivity Of
his nervous system.
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