The northwestern bulletin., 1923-08-04
FATAL RELAPSE
ENDS VACATION
OF PRES. HARDING
Nations Chief Executive Fails
to Rally From Attack of
Fatal Stroke.
WIFE WAS AT BEDSIDE
WHEN BAR WAS CROSSED
Body Will Be Inferred i'm City
Town Where He Had Spent
Most of Life.
WIFE WAS AT BEDSIDE
WHEN BAR WAS CROSSED

San Francisco, Aug. 3.-President
Harding died at 1880 O'Clock $50
p. M. Central time) last night of a
stroke of apoplexy.
The end came suddenly while Mrs.
Harding was reading to him from the
evening newspapers and after what
had been called the best day he had
had since the beginning OF his illness.
exactly one week ago.
A shudder ran through the Presi-
dents form and he collapsed.
Mrs. Harding and the two nurses
in the sickroom knew the end had
come and Mrs. Harding rushed out
of the room and asked for DIR. Joel
Boone and the others to come
quick
DR.. Boone and Brigadier General
Sawyer reached the President before
he passed away, but were not able to
avert the inevitable.
Apoplexy Held Death Cause.
The following formal announce
ment of the Presidents death was
made:
THE President died at 1890 p. M.
Mrs.e Harding and the two nurses,
Miss Ruth Powderly and Miss Sue
Dausser. were in the room at the
time. Mrs. Harding was reading TO
the President when utterly without
warning a slight shudder passed
through his frame, he collapsed and
all recognized that the end had come.
A stroke OF apoplexy was the cause
of his death.
Within few moments all of the
Presidents Official party had been
summoned"
Nothing could have been a more
shocking surprise. Shortly before the
Presidents sudden collapse, General
Sawyer. the, chief physician of the
President, had been telling newspa-
permen that Mr.. Harding had had the
best day since he became seriously i'll
last Sunday night. He said that the
President had definitely entered upon
the stage of convalescence. Every
thing went to show that Mr.. Harding
was on the road to ultimate recovery.
Death Shocks Official Party.
The members of the official party
those who had accompanied the Pres
ident and Mrs. Harding on their trip
across the continent and to Alaska
and back to continental United States,
had no warning that the President
was in danger. They, like the news
papemen, had been assured that a
fatal termination of the Presidents
illness was thing not likely and
with good care he would be able to
recover health and strength. Most
of the members of the official party
were at dinner when the shocking
news came.
George B. Christian, Jr., secretary
to the President, and his devoted
friend. was in Los Angeles with Mrs.
Christian. He had gone there at the
Presidents solicitation to read at a
Masonic gathering an address which
the President had prepared in the ex-
pectation that he would deliver IL in
person. Mr.. Christian declined to
leave San Francisco until he was posi-
lively assured by the Presidents
physicians that there was no hkeli-
hood Of any setback in the Presidents
condition. Death was not thought of.
The body of President Harding win
leave San Francisco on a special train
at about P. NJ. today and go direct
to Washington by way Of Reno, 0g-
den. Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago.
This announcement was made after
a conference participated in by four
members of the Presidents official
party in San Francisco and was ap-
proved by Mrs. Harding.
The train will make NO stops en-
route except those necessary for its
operation. The body Of the President
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