Show WIFE LOSES HER HERRA RACE RA E WITH DEATH TH THRobbed Robbed of Her Victory After a Terrible Journey Across s the Continent GRIM REAPER REAFER WINS ALL I Husband Expires in Her Arms After Home Is Reached PIttsburg April 4 After After a lon long and exciting race with death from fron Los Angeles An- An geles to PIttsburg had 1 I een won through tho the pluck and do of or Mrs larry Harry li rry C. C Van N orman wl who vho o carried a dying husband In her arms virtually all the way across the tho continent sho sue v I as robbed of her hor victory hero horo yesterday when Van Norman r died at tt tre ti-c e home of or his Ills father In It was ono one of tho the most dramatic races with tho tile grim In years Van Norman r was Pacific coast cr of oC tho Herb company of H Rochester r with of- of nce In Los Loa An Angeles eles Five years a atro he lie married ll ono one of or the most beautiful girls In Pitts Pitt Miss Jenks daughter of or City Editor Prank Frank Jenks f of the Ga Gazette Gazette- Times Van Norman was sent by hr II Ms ils firm Irm to take cargo c of oC agencies s In New M Mexico an and Arizona and finally placed re In charge of or the tile headquarters In L s a sAn An Angeles cles Some Somo months a ago o his health Ie egan 1 egan an to tall fall and 1111 a 0 we wc week k a ago o tre Uc doctors fid Mm Ilm t at tt-at at bo ho was doomed to die within a few daysI days I want to die at home borne In PIttsburg was the wish expressed b bv by Van Norman when he learned of his fate rate Preparation Preparations tion were Immediately ma made e fr r the tile and last Sunday evening tho the lying man accompanied h by hl Ills his de- de vote vote-l young wife left Los Ls An Angeles eles Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the East Then began sin nn nerve o racking vigil for Cor Mrs Irs Van N r r- r nan Mile l after mile sat by y the stricken man tenderly raving earing aI for fol I him irn lIn and tr trying ln to talk tall cheerfully and keep n C smiling face Cace although s se ae e could see that I be e was losing strength with every turn of oC the car ear wheels SIo scarcely slept night or oi day and much of tIe tre time held her husband h In her arms that the tle jarring of the tile train ml might ht be minImized minimized min nun l Give Gh No n Hope At El Paso several prominent physicians physicians phy phy- 51 Ions who Ia had been summoned by telegraph raph In advance boarded the train and examined Van N NIrman N In the h hope pe that ho he might bo given elven some relief The They could give Ive little tittle nt however and could only the wife to hurry If sho she expected to reach home homeI 1 I dore her husband died And so IO the I race was continued Bv this tr-ls time the young oung wife wire had Income 1 almost hysterical from tho the terrible strain and telegraphed her parents here le that tiey tI use usa all possible Influence I with to have havo the speed of tho the train Increased This was waw not possible however hwe am antI and hen han the train reached Chicago o. o Van Norman was In a 11 dying condition Friends met the couple there thero and ur urged cd th the patient to remain there but It was apparent that he had bad but hut a n. short time tim timeto to live and Mrs Irs Van Norman Nrman insisted d dupon upon hurrying on so tho the race raco was re resu re- re su mcd A few Caw miles mites out of Pitt Van Norman had ilal a sinking spell and became became boo be bo- I came o unconscious o but t was revived e and I W s 's I was u-as stronger when ie t the t rollel rolle o i Into the station here yesterday There Thero I seemed to re te a n fighting chance hance and as os asan Van an Norman realized t tl tI at he was attain arrain I In his home homo city h he declared that he would soon 1 bo be 0 well He lie was taken I to the homo home of nf his wife's father and several skilled who had bad been heon summoned examined him then told Mrs 1 Van Norman that her husband hart had contracted con con- pneumonia on the trip East and that with the tu from rota which ho he had been bean suffering would bring death In a n tow few hours This diagnosis ls was correct for tor a n few hours afterward Van Norman called his wife wire and bidding bidding bid bid- ding her byo good bye died In her arms |