Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1914 — MRS. WOODROW WILSON SUMMONED BY DEATH [ARTICLE]

MRS. WOODROW WILSON SUMMONED BY DEATH

Cares of President Weighted By Loss 61 Life Companion—Wtfm«h of Many Good Works. 7 ■ , Washington, Aug. g.—Mm Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, died at the white house at 5 o’clock this afterboon. Death came after a brave struggle of months against brights disease with complications. The president was completely unknerved by the shock and his grief was heartrending. .He bore up well under the strain, however, and devoted lrfmself to hi# daughters. The end came while Mrs. Wilson was unconscious. Her illness took a turn for the worse shortly before 1 o’clock In the a®temoou, and from then on she grew gradually weaker. Kneeling at the bedside at the end: wefe the president and their three daughters, Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. S. 8., and a nurse were in the room and just outside a door were Secretary McAdoo and Francis B. Sayre, Mr. Wilson’s sons-in-law, and Mr. Tumulty, his secretary. -

Both houses of congress adjourn ed when Mrs. Wilson’s death was announced, and for a brief time the wheels of the government practically stopped while every one paid respects to the loss of the president. The beginning of the end came at 10 o’clock this morning when Dr. E. P. Davis, of Philadelphia, who had been called tor consultation, realized that the time for hope had passed. He took the president into the red ~poom of the white house and there in a broken voice told him the truth. Mr. Wilson’s face blandhed, but he bore the shock well. He was Informed that the end was only a question of hours. Mr. Wilson then took his daughters, Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, Mrs. Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson, aside, and .told thrm of their mother’s condition. Until then they had thought there Was a chance tor her recovery. - op

Prom then on the president and his daughters remained constantly at tMm. Wilson’s bedside. The president held his wife’s hand, and the there daughters were grouped nearby. Until she became unconscious Mrs. Wilson nodded to one or the other and smiled cheerfully. During the day Mts. Wilson spoke to Dr. Grayson about the 'president, whose health she thought more about than she did of her own. :v' .v^:

“Promise me,” she whispered, faintly, “that if I go, you will taike care of imy husband—” „ ‘ ' Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. The place of burton will be either Riome, Ga., her childhood home, or Princeton, N. J., where the family have lived for 25 years. She had told the president this morning she would more cheerfully "go away” if the bill for the improvement of alleys was passed by congress. A word to, leaders from Secretary Tumulty and the measure wala adopted in silence by the senate and soon reported in the house, where it will be passed tomorrow She learned that the measure would be a law In another day or so and expressed her satisfaction.