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Show CLARA BARTON IS ILL. Red Cross Nurse Is Obliged to Leave Galveston. Chicago, Sept. 19. A special to the Tribune Trib-une from Galveston eayes: Clara Barton, president of the Red Cross society, who came here to distribute relief re-lief Bupnlles, has been stricken down at her work and is seriously ill. Accompanied by three nurses, she will leave for her home in Washington today. She retires from the field only upon the imperative orders of her ohysicians. She was stricken yesterday at a conference confer-ence in her rooms at the Tremont hotel with her staff of nine gathered about her Sh had just finished an outline of her work, assigning each member of her staff to the particular part of the work that pJia was to do. J i , |