Show GOMPERS DIES EN R ROUTE UTE HUME HOME MEXICO Aged Labor Chief Suffers Attack of Heart Failure While Attending Inauguration Inauguration Inauguration ration of Pres Calles Placed on Train to Take Him to Lower Altitude Seems to Foresee That End Is Near LAREDO Texas De Dee Deel 11 The 11 Tho train bearing Samuel Gompers stricken president of the American Ameri Amen can Federation of Labor Is U du due hero tomorrow No information that Gompers s had died of heart trouble has been received here hele have been made to place Mr MI Gompers Compers in a hospital here S SEL EL PASO Tex Dec 11 Samuel Samuel II Gompers American Federation of or Labor president died Thursday morning near San Luis PotosI according to a dispatch to El EI In- In a Spanish language daily dally published in la El EI Paso t tO- tO day The dispatch stated that th American labor chief had succumbed sue sue- to Illness resulting from a severe cold and his overworked condition The message to the paper clime came from Mexico City and wa was wae not confirm confirmed confirmed con con- firm firmed d from any official s sOurce Officials here questioned the re reliability to- to liability of the Information conI contained con con- tamed in the message e. e I MEXICO CITY Dec 11 Mr Ir Gompers was carried on a stretcher from the Macera hotel where he had resided to the railway railway rail ralI- way yay station here This was due dua duato to his extreme f feebleness bleness owing to his cold which was complicated with heart trouble on account of 0 the high altitude Mr 11 Gompers however seemed iobe to io tobe tobe be Improving and it was vas believed belle that he be would again reach American Ameri can soil solI which was the earnest hope he expressed rather despairIngly despairingly despair despair- I w wT en being taken aboard tb special car of ot the boun for felt fol I dI J c EARLY INTIMATION The first intimation of Mr Goat Corn G m- m pers' pers Hines was when Frank Morrison Morrison Morrison Mor Mor- rison at the third sitting of the fourth Pan American Labor conference here Mr 11 Morrison announced announced an an- that the labor leader was confined to his hotel rooms on account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of a slight cold Tuesday Mr Gompers again failed to appear at tho the closing session of ot the conference conference con con- ference reports being circulated that his health was decidedly failing falling tailIng tail fall ing although It was wa officially an- an that only a n. bad cold prevented prevented pre- pre vented his attendance Late Tuesday night however several several sev sev- eral oral physicians held a consultation at his bedside apparently viewing tho the case with some anxiety Wednesday Wednes Wednes- da day da noon It was decided that the labor leader should Immediately leave Mexico City where tho the high altitude was believed to be bo aggravating aggra aggra- tating his heart trouble FO FORESAW ESAW END Mr h Compels Gompers never ne at any time lost his clearnes ol or mind when the tho hotels hotel's orchestra was waa ordered to stop playing on account of his illness illness ill ill- ness Tuesday night he declared that the music lifted his spirit and andIn In Insisted that the playing should continue con- con At the same time the habor labor la- la bor chieftain said that ho he felt the end was coming and he r requested quested that a n. young wom woman n singer be brought to his lila room Wednesday morning to sing for him his favorite ta opera La Boheme At noon the doctors declared that Mr Gompers might not see ee another day if he remained In Mexico City Everything was made ready for tor his I prompt departure with be entire American labor delegation aC accompanying him Once aboard the tho ho oar car carI IarI I tho sick man ordered Ills his privat I secretary to bring him a small bag I containing his private documents I He lie said th that t he ho wished to make makl I last dispositions fearing that he heI I might never reach the United States lve |