The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-08-11
MRS. WILSON PASSES
At The WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT SEEMS ALMOST PROS
TRATED.
End Comes for First Lady OF LaId
Battle With DiSeaSe-Funeral
Yet to be Arranged.

the United States, died at the Wnlte
House at 5 o'clock this afternoon
Death came alter a struggle OF months
against Bright's disease with compli-
cations.
The president was completely un-
nerved by tie shock and his grief was
bearttrending. He bore up we'll under
the strain, however, and devoted HIM
self to his daughters.
The end came while Mrs. Wilson
was unconscious. Her illness took
turn for the worse shortly before l
o'clock in the afternoon and from
then on she gradually grew weaker.
Kneeling at the bedside at the END
were the president and their three
daughters. DR.. Cary T. Grayson, U.
8 n and a nurse were in the room
and just outside a door were Secre-
tary MdAdoo and Francis B. Sayre,
Mr.. Wilson's son-in-law, and Mr.. Tu-
mutly, his secretary. Both houses OF
CONGRESS adjourned when Mrs. VIII
sons death was announced and for
brief time the wheels of the govern
ment virtually stopped.
No Hope Lett.
The beginning of the end came at
10 o'clock this morning, when DR.. Z.
p. Davis of Philadelphia, who had
been called in for consultation, real
lied the time for hope had passed.
He took the president into the RED
room and there in broken voice told
him the truth. Mr.. Wilson's lace
blanoned, but he bore the shock we'll.
He was informed the end was Ques-
ition of hours.
Mr.. Wilson then took his daugh-
sers. Mrs. W. G. McAdco, Mrs. Sayre
and Miss Maragret Wilson aside and
told them. Until then they had
Thought there was a chance for her
recovery.
From that time on the president
and his daughters remained constant
ly at tie bedside. The president held
his wife's hand and the three daugh-
sters we're grouped nearby. Until she
became unconscious Mrs. Wilson fre-
souently nodded to one or the ether
and smiled cheerfully.
During the day Mrs. Wilson spoke
to DR.. Gryason about the president, OF
whose health she thought more
then her own.
Promise me-" she whispered faint
ly, "that if I go you will take care
of my husband"
ut was the same touch cf devotion
which she so many times has re-
peated, her constant anxiety having
been that the president might not
worry about her or be disturbed in Of
fetal tasks.
THE president returned to the sick
room from the last conference with
: TIE doctor, his three daughters lean
ing on his arm. Francis Bcwes Sayre
and Secretary McAdco and Secretary
Tumulty stayed outside the door.
Mrs. Wilson lapsed into uncon-
sciousness but rallied By / o'clock
she began to sink rapidly Size still
could recognize those about her and
looked cheerfully toward them and
smiled.
Her Lsat Sleep.
At . o'clock Mrs. Wilson still was
conscious, but her strength almost had
departed and few minutes later she
sank into the sleep Of unconscious
ness frlm witch she never awoke.
For three hours the president and his
three daughters gazed longingly into
her eyes in the hope that she might
speak again, but she could not.
The sun was casting its long snad-
e-ows from the Potomac to the south
grounds, coIoring the fountains, gar
dens and elms. There was hushed
stiffness in the upper apartments.AAll
eyes were turned towards the soutn-
west corner of the house.
Just at the hour Of 5 death came.
The president and his daughters were
in tears. Secretary Tumutly walked
slowly to the executive offices, his head
bowed. Quietly he announced to the
correspondents that the end had
<come.
A pail of gloom settled over the
executive mansion and the Offices.
Presently Dr.. Grayson, MS face
'nagga-d and worn from day and
night vigil, came to the Office. There