The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-08-09
DEATH CLAIMS
PRESIDENT WITH
NO WARNING
Rpoplexy Strikes Harding Down
in Midst Of His Apparent
Recovery.
END IS SHOCMHGLY SUDDEN
Doctors Believed Him Well or Road
10 Recovery-Mrs. Harding Reading
to Him at Moment Of Seizure
He Dies In Twenty Minutes
Devoted Wife Bears Up he
roieaily Under Grief.

i0t@0ty SHNN'
Washlngton.-Warren G. Harding Is
head. The body of the late president
was speeded across the continent by
special train for state burial IN Wash
Ington. The final interment will be at
Marion, Ohio.
The special train left San Francisco
NJ z D. N. Friday, routed directly to
the capital by way of Reno, Ogden,
Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago.
The train made NJ stops en-
route except those necessary for its
operation. The body of the President
was borne In the rear car. The car was
lighted at night, and at all times two
soldiers and two sailors, a part of a
naval and military guard of sixteen
enlisted men, stood at attention guard
ing the casket.
The train carried the presidential
party as composed during the trip
across the country to Alaska. and also
General Pershing, Attorney General
D~augherty, and Mr.. and Mrs. II. II.
Remsberg and family, Mrs. Remsberg
being a sister of the President.
Untold Thousands Of American citi-
rens stood with uncovered heads, day
and night. as the train passed.
Through Nevada In the hours OF
daylight and darkness there were
mourners at the stations. Utah con-
ributed It's thousands the next day.
Wyoming's citizens mourned en- masse.
And so on, across the continent. At
the cities, especially, large crowds as
,embled at the stations.
President Harding died of a stroke
Of apoplexy at 1880 o'clock Thursday
aight 90 80 p. M, New York time).
His exact age was f~ifty-seven years
alA nine months.
The end came suddenly while Mrs.
Harding was reading to him from a
magazine and after what had been
called the best day he had had since
the beginning of his illness exactly
pne week before.
Suddenly II was noticed that the
President was shuddering and gasp
Ing. Mrs. Harding ran TO him. but
he was unable to respond to her In
uuiries. She then ran to the door Of
the sick room and called to the secret
service men there to summon the
Presidents physicians.
When General Sawyer reached the
room the President was still alive. but
he died almost at once.
Collapse ls Sudden.
In greater detail the facts OF the
death are related. With Mrs. Harding
In the sickroom were two nurses. Due
TO the seeming improvement In the
Presidents condition. members of his
party. including the physicians who
had remained in constant call, were
confident they could leave the hotel
FOR a few hours relaxation. Many Of
them were az dinner.
Mrs. Harding, however. refusing to
desert the post, was seated by the
bedside, reading to her husband, when
At 7:10 o'clock the President suddenly
collapsed. His breathing. which had
been quick ever since the Illness over
took him, suddenly became s%pasmodic.
Mrs. Harding. leaving the nurses to
take whatever steps they could In the
emergency, ran 10 the door OF the
presidential suite.
Get the DOCTORS" she called, as she
ran part way into the almost deserted
corridor. A secret service operative
was seated about twenty feet down
the hall. She hurriedly told the secret
service man that the President had
had q sudden and seemingly severe re-
lapse. and begged the detective to try
to locate Doctor Boone or any Of the
pthag physicians.
The secret service man took mp the
search for the physicians. while Mrs.
Harding returned to the bedside. They
located Doctor Sawyer at once
Hoover Arrives Quickly.
Word OF the Presidents sudden turn
for the worse spread through the
hotel and efforts were launched at
once 10 Try TO locate the members OF
bis oflcial party.
Herbert Hoover. secretary Of com
merce and one Of the closest cabinet
members to the President, was the
1rst Of the cabinet members to reach
the bedside. He hurried into the cor
ridor. already aware that the Presi-
dents life was ebbing fast. and the
door TO the suite closed behind him. A
short time after he came out. He was
completely broken up and could not
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