Show lOLA IS fOUND DEAD Eminent French Novelist Is Asphyxiated HIS WIFE SERIOUSLY ILL Asphyxiation Resulted From Fumes I I From a Stove in His Bedroom 1 Mme Zola Unconscious Vhon Found but Finally Revived and Taken to a Hospital Her Condition Condi-tion CriticalDeath of Author Has Caused a Great Sensation Zola and Wife Had Just Returned to Paris Paris Sept IEmlle Zoa the novelist nov-elist who gained additional prominence In recent years because of i his defense of the Jews and of Capt Dreyfuss was found dead In his Paris home this I morning Asphyxiation resulting from fumes from a stove In his bedroom is given as the cause of death M Zola and his wife retired at 10 oclock last night Mme Zola was seriously III when the room was broken Into this morning AL about noon she was removed to a private hospital where she recovered consciousness for a short lime and was I + I i I 4 i I I I 4 EHILE ZOLA + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + H ± + + ± + + + + + + 4 + + + + + able briefly to explain to a magistrate what had happened M and Mme Zola returned to Paris from their count housc at Medan yesterday Owing lo a sudden spell of cold weather the heating stove In their bedroom was ordered to be lighted The stove burned badly and the pipes of the stove are said to have been out of order OVERCOME BY GAS To the magistrate Mme Zola explained ex-plained that she woke early this mornIng morn-Ing with a splitting headache She wakened her husband and asked him to open the window She saw him rise and attempt to move toward a window win-dow but he staggered and fell to the floor unconscious Mine Zola fainted at the same moment and was therefore there-fore unable to give tho alarm Mme Zola docs not know of her husbands death and It Is feared she may suffer a relapse when Informed of It It Is I thought tonight however that she will recover CAUSED GREAT SENSATION The death of M Zola which only became be-came generally known this afternoon has caused it great sensation in Paris and this evenIng there was a constant stream of callers at the Zola residence M I Zolas body lies on a divan In the center of the spacious drawingroom of his house under a canopy of rare and ancient hangings I FOUND DEAD ON FLOOR The servants of the Zola household not hearing any move in their masters mas-ters apartment this morning entered the bedroom at 030 oclock and found M Zola lying with his head and shoulders shoul-ders on the floor and his legs on the bed Doctors were summoned but the > failed to resuscitate him Mme Zola was unconscious After prolonged efforts ef-forts on the part of the physicians she showed signs of life but It was sometime some-time before she became conscious POLICE CALLED IN A alight odor of carbonic gas was noticed when the servants broke Into the room From the position of M Zolas body It was evident that he had tried to rise but had been overcome over-come by the fumes from the stove The servants immediately opened the windows and sent for physicians A commissary of police was also summoned sum-moned RUMOR OF SUICIDE It was reported hello during the day that there were evidences of sjilsUe In the death of M Zola Nothing has so far developed to substantiate this theory and tho statement by Mine Zola to the magistrate seems to disprove J dis-prove It No unusual sound waaJjetird from the bedroom dujlng the night Two little dogs belonging to the Zolas passed the night In their masters bedroom pastl bed-room They were alive this morning STATEMENT OF A DRUGGIST A druggist who was the first to arrive ar-rive at the house to attend M 1 Zola and his wife said When I entered the bedroom M Zola wan lying partly on the hoar No special odor likely to cause asphyxiation was distinguishable distinguish-able M and Mme Zola did not present exclusive symptoms of asphyxiation > asphyxi-ation Their faces wore contorted and their lips wore bloodless hut not violet colored I think the accident was probably cniiHPd by the Zolas Inhaling In-haling heavy carbonic gas which lay mainly below the level of the high bed talnl This would account for Mme Zolas escape They were not suffocated I on tHe bed M 1 Zola was awakened by tll the tffccUi of the gas and tried to rise but he was seized with vomiting fainted and foil to the floor where he was suffocated Mme Zola also was overcome by the gas but to a less degree than her husband The commissary of police who wag summoned to the Zola residence said In his report to the profoct of police1 The heating stove was not lighted lh Lng of It Is and there was no odor o gas I believed that M Zolas death was due to accidental poisoning by drugs Two little dogs found In the bedroom are alive DUE TO ASPHYXIATION In a second report the commissary of police Indorsed the medical opinion that M 1 Zolas death was accidental and clue to asphyxiation anr Leyrmand I who attended M and Mmf Ieyrm Is I quoted as saying Inn In-n Interview published this afternoon thaC tho heating stove was atlll warm when he entered the room The J profect of Paris luis ordered the city architect to examine the bedroom In which M I Zola died and has Issued Inrtructlonp that analyses be made of hs blood and of the atmosphere In his loom 1IOm M Zola had been resting from literary liter-ary Zf work since he finished his book AI called The Truth which Is being published In serial form in the Aurore publlshc I TRIBUTE TO ZOLA The obituary notices pay tribute toM to-M Zolas literary talent The Temps saytf French letters have suftcred a JOBS which will be keenly felt The r toewHpnpers Judge M Zolas role In the Dreyfus sPIJlerl affair according to political bias M Zola was born In Paris April z 1810 MME ZOLA INFORMED It Js now said that Mme Zola was Informed oC the death of her husband befprc sho left here She at frt refused re-fused to believe the I news and was terribly ter-ribly affected She did not wish to I I leave the house but the physicians I finally persuaded her to allow herself to he removed to the hospital A large crowd assembled In front of the Zola residence tonight Among the callers at the house were almost all the literary celebrities of Paris The only neu forts recorded Is the result of the analysis o the blood o JM Zola which shows the presence of carbonic acid FOLLOW PARTY LINES Estimates of the deceased novelist generally follow party lInes In the Judgment Judg-ment of his literary work although most of the newspapers agree that he was one of the glories of French literature liter-ature The Figaro says With Zola disappears disap-pears the last of our great writers of yesterday Who will replace them The Gaulols says Zola died without with-out having had time to recognize and regret the wrong he did France The Libre Parole publishes the following fol-lowing The insulter I I of our flag dies at the hour when the antipatriotic campaign to which he brought his criminal support begins to bear its fruit of ruin and shame The first pages of the Aurore appears In mourning Thin paper says that history his-tory will certainly glorify M Zola as the great artisan of the revision of the Dreyfus trial Zola Is I dead long live Zola |