The record-union., 1898-10-30
COLONEL WARING DEAD.
SUCCUMBED TO THE ATTACK
OF YELLOW FEVER.
The Body Taken to Swinburne ISL
and Shortly After Death Oc-
Cured and Incinerated.

NEW YORK. Oct % - Colonel
George E. Waring, Jr., died of yellow
fever to-day at his home in this city,
where he has been since he arrived
from Havana on the Yucatan on Tues
day last. He was 67 years of age.
DR.. Blauvelt. who had been attend
ing Colonel Waring during his illness,
was summoned to the house at l
o'clock this morning. He found that
Colonel Waring had been attacked
tinued all morning without cessation.
Everything possible was done for the
dying man, but he only lived until a
quarter ot s
President Murphy of the Board of
Health was informed of the death of
Colonel Waring within five minutes
after it occurred. DR.. Roberts. the
Sanitary superintendent, was ordered
to have the body placed in a hermet-
1cally sealed casket at once. Mr.. Muir
ply also gave orders that every pre-
caution should be taken to prevent the
spread Of theIdisease.
Colonel Waring had been sent to
Havana as a special Commissioner to
ascertain the exact sanitary conditions
of that city, and to form ideas for
the best methods Of putting the city in
first-claSs sanitary shape He was to
report to the President, and when he
returned he said he expected to go
to Washington next day. He said he
he had a great deal of information
which he said he thought would be of
great service to the President.
Colonel Waring was apparently we'll
when he left Havana. When he
reached his home he was obliged to
take to his bed. 1t was then discov-
low fever. He was isolated in his
apartments on the ninth floor of the
Rutherford, the apartment-house in
which he lived. There are nine fami-
lies in the house. Precautions were
Immediately taken to prevent the
spread of the disease. No one but the
physicians and Mrs. Waring, who has
had the disease, were allowed to see
Colonel Waring Everything that was
taken in or out of the apartment was
disinfected.
The doctors at first did not think
that the case was a malignant one.
When Colonel Warnings temperature
rose to 1854, however, the physicians
became alarmed. 1t was plain that
the patient was getting worse. The
black vomit. the most serious symp-
tom, was fought off until 1 o'clock
this morning.
Three hours after the death of Col
onel Waring, his body, inclosed in a
metallic casket, was taken from the
apartment to the dock at the foot of
Fifteenth street, on the quarantine
boat, which was in waiting. The body
was placed on board and taken to
Swinburne Island 1t was there placed
in a retort, and DIR. Doty had a little
fire which cremated the remains.
After the body had been removed
from the house the apartments of the
Warnings were fumigated.
The father, mother, brother and
three sisters of Mrs. Waring died of
yellow fever in New Orleans some
years ago.
Colonel Waring was a native of this
city. In 1857 he was appointed Agri-
cultural Engineer of Central Park He
entered the military in 1862 as an Ad-
jutant in the New York Reserves. but
was transferred to the army of the
Southwest, where he helped consoli-
date the Fremont and Benton Re-
serves into the Fourth Missouri Cav
airy, of which he became Colonel.
Colonel Waring was appointed Com
missioner of the Bureau of Street
Cleaning in this city by Mayor Strong,
and made highly creditable record.