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Show WAR HERO GALLED r REAR ADMIRAL SCHLEY DROPS DEAD WHEN APPARENTLY IN FLUSH OF HEALTH. Hero of Santiago Unrecognized by Single Person of Curious Throng Which Gathered as He Was Stricken in the Street. New York. Winfteld Scott Schley, retired rear admiral of the United States navy and popular hero of the famous naval battle of Santiago on July 3, 1S9S, in which the Spanish fleet was , wiped out, dropped dead Monday afternoon in West Forty-fourth Forty-fourth stret, near Fifth avenue. 'Apoplexy was given by physicians as the cause of the admiral's demise. He had entered the New York Yacht club a few minutes before, had bought a cigar, left two handbags, obtained change for a $50 bill and had an- c A 'J C pi1 l if' ADMIRAL SCHLEY nounced casually that he was going to take a walk and then would visit his son, a physician, living a bit furthr er uptown. Admiral Schley walked out of the yacht club in apparently the best of health and spirits, going toward Fifth avenue. When he got halfway to that thoroughfare and was in front of the Berkeley theatre he began to stagger and reeled against an iron post. Then he fell to the curbstone, against which his head struck. Some bystanders ran to his aid and placed under his head as a pillow an overcoat which he had been carrying. carry-ing. Then they summoned the nearest near-est physician, who said that the man was dead. No one present at the time knew who the dad man was. A policeman po-liceman took charge of the body and it was identified a few moments later. |