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-- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) died painlessly at 6:30 tonight of angina pectoris. He lapsed into coma at 3 o'clock this afternoon and never recovered consciousness.
It was the end of a man outworn by grief and acute agony of body. He was 74 years old.
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The breakdown which brought on the end is attributed to disheartenment following the death of his invalid daughter Jean. The death of his friends H. H. Rogers, W. M. Laffan, and R. W. Gilder, also affected him.
Yesterday was a bad day for the little knot of anxious watchers at the bedside. For long hours the gray, aquiline features lay moulded in the inertia of death, while the pulse sunk steadily, but at night he passed from stupor into the first natural sleep he had known since he returned from Bermuda, and then he woke refreshed, even faintly cheerful, and in full possession of his faculties.
He recognized his daughter, Clara (Mrs.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch,) spoke a rational word or two, and feeling Associated Press Report of MT's Death - University of Virginia DEFYG