U.S.A. RAILWAY MAGNATE
DEATH FROM EXHAUSTION. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, December 12. A message from Cleveland states that Mantis Van Sweringen, who with his* brother Oris, rose from obscure poverty to become the greatest railway owner in America, died to-day after six months’ illness, caused by “general exhaustion brought on by mental and emotional strain.” Recently their railway holdings, which included control of twenty-one thousand miles of system, were thrown into bankruptcy when the J. P. Morgan Company collected a loan of forty-eight million dollars: The brothers succeeded in recapturing their holdings,-but the strain was too great for the elder one.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 December 1935, Page 7
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