The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-30
|Of YELLOW FEVER.
Vada1 Succumbs 10 the Disease
~ II Extracted IN Havana.
WERE IMMEDIATELY cREMArED
80 street Com missioner HAD
sent to Cuba to Report ON
\ ~. sanitary Conditions.

~ n yellow itfoi o.. MO hVhc IN tuls
asus be has been sick since he ar.
~ nom Havana last Tuesday. DR..
~ who had been attending Colonel
3,,r during his illness. was summoned
- "a hc,,se at O'Clock this morning. He
ZI ihst Ccdorel Warning had been at
2b>a vf,h black vomit. This symptom
s.scsd aM morning without cessation.
,-,,hing possible was done for the dyirs
9. bm be only lived until quarter OF
Sxsck.
pssIdent Murphy Of the board OF health
=, lniorn,ed of the death Of Colonel War
y within 1--WE mjnmtes after 1t occurred
= Roberts. the sanitary superintendent.
- edered to have the body placed in a
Dtically scaled casket Immediately
~ Murphy also gave orders that every
&1suton should be taken to prevent the
SN1d u the disease. He said that ex
rrdluary precautions would be taken 10
[HSxpd.
UbjoneI Waring had been sent to the city
I4usyana as a special commissioner of this
5sg9ument to ascertain the exact SANITARY
|8aIitous of that city AID to form iieas
(kths best methods for putting the place
NJ 1fs chss sanitary shape. He was to
MT to lLe president and on the day he
|kAxwd he said he expected to 70 to
|RIEugton the NEXT day. He said he felt
|@SeD. but no one thought he had moe
|dn 10 orlt1ary illness. He said that he
|hHa krelt deal of information which he
|tdasM would be OF service to the presi-
|dst The plan of the commission was I,
|Jinn the city of Havana and the coast
lam Of Cuba in such good sanitary
|c>11tion that the recurrence Of yellow
|hvtT and its entrance into the gulf cite,
III Tie Unitei States would be prevented.
cbpnAi Warning was apparently we'll
|shen be left Havana and he felt only
RSatly Ill during the latter part of the
voyage, but when he reached his home he
w obliged to take 10 his bed 1t was than
tsccvered that he was suffering from yell
" fever.
cclonel Wering was Immediately Isolated
y hs apartments on the ninth floor of the
kplbertord, the apartment house in which
d syes There are nine families In the
1etH Precautions were Immediately taken
y peyeut the spread of the disease. No
y but the physicians and Mrs Waring,
~ bad had the disease and Is, therefore.
lnndne. were allowed to see Colonel War
~ everything that was taken in or out
v he apartment In which he was living
~ disinfected' Inspectors of the board of
lam were stationed at and in the house
Y Eepent people from getting too near the
~ man. The doctors at first did not
eNx mat the case was malignant ore
Aetn colonel Warnings temperature rose
10y ia the PHYSICIANS became alarmed
~ ina eli ,,. -
NOUS form. and Colonel Waring was
Fsied accordingly. 1t was pain that he
= getting worse. The black vomit. the
'oa serious symptom, was fought off un-
O'Clock this mOrling. The end came |
Y Acun later.
inies hours after The death of Colonel |
AjeHn8 his body enclosed in metallic |
Snht, was taken from the apartment he |
u. occlpied to the dock at the foo. OF |
\ street, whore the quarantine boas |
werner Flower, with DR.. Doty in charge. |
n 70 waiting. The body was placer Gu |
I'm AID taken to Swinburne island. 1t |
'nse placed m asre,ort and DR.. Doty |
mstif lighted the fire which cremated |
. remains.
as'scoa as the body had been removed
~ the house. the apartments of this
ssssngs were fumigated and disinfectei
Y 'auaef, mother, brother and three sis |
SoI Mrs. Warning died OF yellow fever
new Orlesns some years ago.
Suonei Warning was native of New
~ sure and much Of his earlier life
spent in tho study and practice of
s1uiic agriculture. He was for some
!, III charge of Horace Greeley's farm
tanappaqua, N. Y. In 1857 he was ap-
n.el agricultural and drainage engineer
.en1rai park. this city. He entered the
u IN 1862 as a major in the Garibaldi
Fsyes. bu. was transferred to the army
- southwest. where he helpsd con-
.Ae'e The Fremont ard the Benton re-
~ INTO the Fourth Missouri cavalry.
/, snfan he became colonel. During the
"a 'au lever epidemic Of 1878 In Memphis.
' s,nN Waring devised tho system OF
,s'Sse IN vogue there now, which has
y nsen adopted IN many other Ameri-
tnu huropean cities. Colonel Waring
eppomted commissioner OF the bureau
y. s1t cleaning n this city by Mayor
~ - ana made a hishly creiitable record