The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-07

RoOsevelts death pulmonary embOism, or lOdgment
in the lung of cOt from broken ven it stated by
of his physicians.
News of the death of the former president
ceived in New York by Miss Josephine Stricken the col
Ones secretary in telephone message from Mrs ROOse
welt.
Miss Sricker said that the colonel had suffered an at
tack OF nfammatOry rheumatism New Years Day and
had since been more or less confined to his
The attack of rheumatism settled mainly in Colonel
ROOsevels right hand and Mrs Roosevelt sent at for
nurse in the village of Oyster Bay His condition did not
at first seem to be alarming and the turn for the worse
believed not to have come until last night
MRS. ROOSEVELT TELEPHONES NEWS
In announcing Colonel RoOsevelts DEATH Miss Sricker
said:
Mrs. Roosevelt called on the telephone shortly be-
tore O'clock saying that the colonel had died early today
She did not give any particulars and am leaving at
once for Oyster Bay.
'Ihe attack must have been very sudden. On New
Years day, inflammatOry rheumatism developed in Col
Onel ROOSeveltS right hand which became very much
swollen. Mrs. Roosevelt sent for a nurse in the village
and the colonel made comfortable as possible. 1t
did not occur to at that time that he was seriously ill.,
Miss StrCker went to Oyster Bay last Saturday to pay
the colonel visit She said:
AT that time the colonel was sleeping in his room and
did not see him. and there nothing in the circum-
stances of his illness at that time to indicate me that
death was near. When Mrs. Roosevelt called me this
morning and told of the cOlones dah could hardly
believe it. Mrs Roosevelt gave particulars of his
DEATH
ALL OF HIS CHILDREN ABSENT
Itis understood that only Mrs Roosevelt and the nurse
were with him at the time of his death The other men,
bers of the family in other parts of the country or
abroad
telephone message received later this morning from
Oyster Bay said that Colonel Roosevelt had died at 4
o'clock this morning.
Colonel ROOseveIt's last illness may be said to date
from last February On February 5, it announced
that he had been removed from his home in Oyster Bay
tpa
operation on of his Soon after his arrival at the
hospital, he underwent two operations for the re-
mOva of diseased tissues in his infected ear and il was
admitted at the time that he was seriously ill., He re-
maned at the hospital until March 8.
RETURNED HOME CHRISTMAS DAY
During May and June, the colonel made number of
addresses, speaking at Springfield, Mass. and in New
York In June he made tour of the West during which
he suffered slight attack of eryspeas one of his legs
but refused to give up his engagements
Early in November, the colonel was taken to Roose-
welt Hospital in New York for treatment of rheumatism
and scatica While in the hospital reports became cur
rent that the colonel was seriously i'll than his phySi-
clans would admit.
Colonel Roosevelt returned to his home in Oyster Bay
Christmas Day, remarng he stepped to the porch
that he was feeling bully"
Death it was said came to him painessv as he
slept.
Three physicians had been in attendance on the COL
One since he taken to Roosevelt Hospital seven weeks
ago to be treated for what was believed to be scaca The
patients trouble later was diagnosed as nfammaory
rheumatism which, according to one of the doctors had
affected virtually every Joint in his body.
The cOOnels physicians Dr. J. A. Faller of Oys-
ter Bay, Dr. J. II. Richards and Dr. John H. Hartwe of
New York City.
FOry-eght hours before death the former president
had been visited by one OF his physicians who stated he
found the colonel apparently in good condition and spirits
The colonel, he said laughed and oked with him and said
ne expected soon to renew his woodchOppng expeditions
on his Sycamore Hill estate.
Died Paney While Asleep
Oyster Bay n Y" Jan 6Co. Theodore Roosevelt died his
sleep early today at his home on Sycamore Hill this village
believed to have been due rheumatism which affected his heart
The colonel suffered attack OF rheumatism
New Years Day but none believed that his illness would likely prove
fatal The former president up OF Sunday at
o'clock last night About Mrs Roosevelt who was the only
other member OF the family Oyster Bay her husbands
and found that he had died during the night