DEATH ENDS SEARCH
FOR YEARS M'CLINTOCK FAMILY
HAD SOUGHT THEIR BOY.
STARTS HOME; DIES AT DEPOT.
SISTER WITH HIM WHEN END
CAME WITHOUT WARNING.
"Something Has Burst," Exclaimed
Young Man as He Fell to Plat-
form -- Sister Feared to Be
Left Alone at the
Hotel.
Roy McClintock, 22 years old, residing at Mt. Carmel, Ill., died in the Union depot last night. He had just been found by his family after an absence of several years. He was a railroad machinist.
Seven months ago McClintock was admitted to St. Margaret's hospital in Kansas City, Kas. He was suffering from pneumonia fever and for weeks lay at the point of death. A week ago he had sufficiently recovered to write to his sister, Mrs. W. E. Craver, 5250 Delaware boulevard, St. Louis.
Mrs. Craver hastened to Kansas City as soon as she heard from her brother and remained with him until he was able to travel. Last night they started to her home in St. Louis. They expected to leave on the Rock Island train at 10:15 o'clock and after purchasing tickets, strolled about the platform.
A few minutes before time for the train to leave Mrs. Craver and her brother started down the platform with their baggage. Before reaching the car young McClintock suddenly turned to his sister with the exclamation:
"Something has burst."
A passerby helped the young man to a baggage truck and a train porter went for the depot master. A wheel chair was sent out from the depot, but the young man was bleeding profusely at the mouth before the porter reached him with the chair. He was taken inside the depot and placed on a cot in the women's waiting room. He died five minutes later.
The coroner was notified and ordered the body taken to Eylars undertaking rooms, where an autopsy will be held today. Mrs. Craver was taken to the Blossom House by the depot master. She fainted and stated that she is a sufferer from heart trouble. She asked that some one stay near her as she feared to go to a room alone. A bell boy was stationed at her door for the night.
Mrs. Craver's husband, W. R. Craver, of St. Louis, is employed at the Rock Island shops in St. Louis.
