The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-30
INFECTION is FEARED
DEATH OF COL. WARING, FROM
YELLOW FEVER, CAUSES ALARM
His Fellow Passengers on the
Steamship Were Exposed to
the Disease.

NEW YORK, Oct 29.-Col. @. E.
War1ng Jr., died of yellow fever today
at his home in this city, where he had
been since he arrived from Havana on
the Yucatan on Tuesday last. He was
sixty-seven years Of age.
DR.. Blauvelt. who had been attend
ing Col. Waring during his illness, was
summoned to the house at l o'clock
this morning. He found that Col. War
ing had been attacked with the black
vomdt. This symptom continued all
morning without cessation. Everything
possible was done for the dying man,
but he only lived until 7:45.
President Murphy, of the board of
health, was Informed of the death Of
Col. Waring within five minutes after
IT occurred. DR.. Roberts, the sanitary
superintendent was ordered sto have
the body placed in Theoretically sealed
gave orders that every precaution
should be taken to prevent the spread
of the disease. He said that extraordi-
nary precautions would be taken to
this end.
Three hours after the death Of Col.
Warning, his body, enclosed in q me-
tallic casket, was taken from the
at the foot of One Hundred and Fifty
eighth street, where the quarantine
boat, Gov. Flower, was in waiting,
The body was placed ON board and
taken to Swfnburne island. 1t was
there placed in retort, and DR.. Doty
himself started the fire which cremated
the remains. AS soon as the body had
been removed from the house, the
apartments Of the Warnings We're fumi-
gated and disinfected.
Every precaution Is being taken to
guard against the spread of the dis
ease, but the most serious feature of
the case is the fact that tWenty-sevsn
Of Col Warnings fellow passengers on
the steamship Yucatan, who arrived
from Havana with him on Tuesday,
are scattered throughout the country.
The fever must have developed in Col.
Waring on the voyage, and during that
voyage his fellow passengers We're sub
Jected to the contagious disease.
Here is a list of Col Warnings fell
low passengers: ,1
Miss Lena G. Dell, F. strauck, Rafael J..
Pedra1as, Robert NJ. McCulloch, Antonio A.
Rofinag. Thomas s. Jerome, w j. Clark.
Carl Heynan. H: Rochiter, A. e. Blathernick,
son, Wallace Frazer. Charles o. Culver,
Leonard D. Greenhall, ]. c. Jack, Y. O.
Piunker, g. 0. Fowler. W. ]. Hazlewood,
Ernest A: Tonga, R. Rochiter, Miguel l..
Pividad, Edward sturzenegger, A. B. Mac
Mallen. Loi Lee, Wong Ye and Ii Chu.
Col. Warlng was native Of New
York state, and much of his earlier life
was spent in the study and practice
of scientific agriculture He was for
some time in charge Of Horace Gree
ly's farm. at Chappaqua, N. Y. In
1857 he was appointed agricultural and
drainage engineer of Central park, this
city. He entered the army In 1852 as
major. in the Garibaldi reserves. but
was transferred to the army Of the
southwest where he helped CONSOLE
date the Fremont and the Benton re-
serves into the Fourth Missouri cav
airy, OF which he became colonel Dur
ing the yellow fever epidemic of 1878
In Memphis, Col. Waring devised the
system Of sewerage in vogue there
now, which has since been adopted in
many other American and European
cities.
WASHINGTON, Oct 90. Upon re-
ceipt Of the notice Of the death Of Col
Warning today, Secretary AIger sent the
following telegram of coincidence to the
widow:
The unexpected announcement of your no.
ole husbands death has filed ALI of our
hearts with sorrow. Please accept NV most
sincere sympathy In your great bereave-