The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-31
One Thing That Money Cannot Buy~~-Life
], P|ERPONT MORGAN
DIED IN ROME TODAY

to travel without especial
ianger, but those who saw him when
he Adriatic docked at Naples knew
that he was very sick man.
He had to be carried from the
steamship aboard special train.
which was waiting to hurry 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. Four nurses
from the Anglo-American nursing
home were in constant attendance.
and doctor and nurse were with him
every moment.
Dixon and Bastianelli ordered COM
plete rest and except for a brief az.
ternoon drive with Mrs. Satterlee,
Morgan did not stir from his room.
Easter Sunday the flnancier 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 last Sunday the
doctors could not induce the patient
to eat, because of lack of functional
vitality in the nerve centers. The re-
fusal of throat muscles to do their
duty made 1t impossible for Morgan
~ ua "a, \ ia
feeding by injection, but expressed
the fear that such liquid food as could
be administered in that way would
not keep him up long. Late last night
/ 1t was discovered that Morgan was
not assimilating even the LIQUID diet
and then the doctors knew 1t was a
matter of hours until his death.
He had no illness and suffered no
pain, but wasted away simply be-
cause his body was incapable Of nour-
| ishing itself. by reason Of the inactiv-
! ity Of the nervous system.
News that Morgan actually was
about to die did not reach the world
until Saturday when Satterlee reluct-
| antly made a statement to Offset rum
/ ors. Morgan had not been seen about
I the Grand since Easter Sunday. It
/ was reported that he was dead and
i that the fact was being suppressed
for stock market purposes Satterlee
4 admitted that his father-in-law suffer
! ed another setback last Saturday and
i that his condition was serious, but not
! necessarily alarming.
4 It was then that Rome realized that
Morgan was In critical state and all
day yesterday the Grand was besieg-
ed by a vast throng Of newspaper
men. American tourists and others,
anxiously inauiring about the sick
banker Then Bastinaelli. Dixon and
starr. the latter arriving hastily from
Naples, issued their bulletin admit
ting that he was in a very critical
condition.
Messengers from King Victor En-.
manuel at the quirinal; Pope Plus at
the vatican, and from the British, Ger
man, French. Russian. Greek and
American embassies hurried post
haste to the Grand to ask after the
'
powerful banker.
The last bulletin issued by the doc
tors stated that Morgan was sinking
rapidlv. with pulse 14o. temperature
104 and respiration AS. He was un.
, conscious most Of Sunday and all last
night, and his death was surprise
> to none OF the watchers.
The death of the banker was mol
announced Immediately, Satterlee de
: siring time to get off private cable
grams 10 London and New York, bu'
when the announcement was made tnf
Grand was Immediately overwhelme
a by an anxious crowd. The messen
t. gers from the king OF Italy and th'
n pope, returned bringing condolences
y American Ambassador O'Brien callet
V on Satterlee and the various embas
:. sizes came back to bring messages Q
d sympathy. The scene around the note
D was one of vast confusion. The deaf
h OF the monarch would have create
n no more excitement
d CORRESPONDENTS fell cover each otf
err to fash the news and brokers' rel
d resen. n.atives were equally in hurr
r to communicate the event to tn
.e worlds exchanges and bourses.
sr When j. Pierpont Morgan left Ne7
ID York. January I, fer his annual VII
n. ter soiourn in Fgvpt he wNsSlot wei
" and members Of his party here adml
e ted that he felt that it would be nj
d. last trip 10 Europe. He was anyiou
in to get to his excavations on the Mn
ID where he had spent vast sums
c. money and many interested davs
ed digging up relics OF the ancier