Show Death Is Victor After 1 08 Hours Borrowed Life Lif Albert Frick Succumbs Despite Heroic Efforts of 57 Companions to Offset Paralysis By MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent EV EVANSTON i Ill Death has won Its struggle against the lo loyal al loving hands that for more than hours pumped borrowed life Into the body of Albert FrIck The year old salesman who would have died l last st Sunday but for the constant rhythmic pressure an n his lungs applied by seven fifty of his coworkers and friends working work work- log ing day and anal night In minute fifteen shifts fInally succumbed at 1012 o'cloCk last night Medical science won over mother love this morning when Mrs II C. C FrIck mother of the dead ead youth gave permission to io doctors to perform per per- form torm a post mortem examination The doctors desired to make the examination in order to learn of the various reactions of the paralysis which brought on Fricks Frick's death dath When they made known their desires desires de- de sires last night Mrs Frick said to her husband Herman please pleas dont don't let them do anything Dont Don't let them harm his bodY Hes He's still our little boy hoy you know even now But this morning In order to pre pre- vent vent-If anyone else lse front from becoming victim to the same form ot of paralysis that caused her sons son's I Continued on page 4 Death Is S Victor is or After Hours Borrowed Life Continued from page 1 r death she gave permission for the mortem post which will be held later FrIck had been suffering since Sun Sunday a of Landry's p paralysis and most st of t the tIme was unable to t breathe athe sleep seep or eat When the thel l 1 ti par paralysis paralysis' first attacked his lungs 1 1 doctors found that by by- by I pressure pressure to tle tIte abdomen In steady beats b ts a faint spark of t life lite could be maintained But they soon oon tired In th their ett efforts rt to prolong th the young mans mans man's life and so his friends frends came to take up the task two at a time In mInute fifteen shifts The final struggle of Fricks Frick's losing los los- OSIng OS- OS Ing battle batUe started In shortly after atter p. p m. m Doctors noticed a cyanotic con con con- where the flesh starts turnIng turning turn turn- Ing setting blue In Oxygen tanks were brought Into use Frick failed f to respond H. 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C FrIck the boys boy's father who had been almost In constant attendance attendance at- at walked to the bed where young oung Frick Fick had been propped at a degree 45 angle ange for four days Can I help son 1 the father asked For the first time In hours young oung Frick failed to r respond spond to his fathers father's question Prior to that time he had always always' gasped Push Dad I At 10 p. p m. m Chris Hendrickson and I Harry Reynolds took up theIr shift at forcing breatHing on Frick Steadily rhythmically they pushed relaxed pushed relaxed d wIth the same cadence that had kept up S Sunday y Once the wracked paIn and exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted youth half shook and gasped Dad A ABut But his his- voice oice faded away REFUSE TO GIVE UP I Doctors said he was gone B But t i for en mInutes more the steady pressure which had kept lire fre tn Ln an almost dead man for bour pas as kept up Oxygen was as pumped into Pricks Prick's lungs The two two of Frick tears tears' ning g down their fa faces es refused to gIVe up Finally Dr T T. E. E Conley who was bend bending ng over the bod body gave the announcement that seven fifty men had had- hadeen een fighting ig for against h five dar S He Is dead I Silence little room where the the battle b had been r workers pressed going on The t o o gently on chest f hest once n e or twice as as' though oath loath to believe the task they had worked at could have failed It was only when Pricks Prick's father collapsed and fen fell to the floor that all realized an all powerful death had taken the VIctim It had beckoned beckoned beck beck- for Th The history aroun around this strange battle between man Inan and death dates from Saturday Saturday- Y when you Frick had two t teeth eth removed Ile He suddenly became ill III Sunday paralysis set set In First his bladder badder then hiS his legs leg's his lils diaphragm dla- dla and then his palate and vocal chords chords' refused to owing to inert muscles Doctors pronounced victim of Lan drys dry's named paralysis after a a. a famous famous fa- fa French doctor who first analyzed ana ana- and It resuscitation work started Two doctors started the attempt at forcing breathing upon the youth but when th they y tired comrades volunteered and worked In minute fifteen shifts to provide a spark of life for lor the youth Twice Frick seemed on the brink ot of death but but both both times he rallied and the weary workers their arms bandaged and swollen from their efforts at resuscitation were cheered and carried on Yesterday doctors said there vas was wasa vasa a ray of hope owing to the paralysis of the diaphragm receding and Frick seemed more more cheerful cheerful But the cheer passed last ast night when death descended and took the theton ton toll It had been demanding for almost almost al- al most a week 1 |