Manuel Yglesias |
| Posted 2016-06-09 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Weekly Arizona Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory Wednesday, May 2, 1900, page 4, column 4 A Sudden Death Dr. Manuel Yglesias Passes Away After Only A Few Minutes Illness Last night about 11 o'clock Dr. Manuel Yglesias retired to his bed in the best of health and spirits, intending to leave on the train this morning for Flagstaff, where several patients were awaiting his treatment. In a few minutes he called his nephew, Manuel O. Yglesias, who had been traveling with him, and told him he was very sick and asked him to awaken Mr. and Mr. Maza, in whose house the doctor had been having his office on McCormick street. The young man hastened to do as bidden and in a few minutes Mr. Maza was at his bedside. The doctor then told them to hasten for a doctor, that he feared he was going to die. Word was immediately dispatched for Dr. Scarborough. A glass of humayada water was also called for and given him, but the agony of the patient grew more terrible every moment and in about thirty minutes after first feeling the attack, he was dead. Dr. Scarborough arrived a few minutes after he died, and pronounced death to have been odema of the lungs. Justice of the Piece, Tom Shultz was called about 2 o'clock, a jury was impanelled and an inquest held over the remains, the verdict of the jury being death of natural causes, in accordance with the above. Dr. Yglesias was a noted specialist in hematology and diseases of the blood and had been traveling through Arizona for several months. He was in Phenix for several weeks during the winter and treated many of the most prominent people there, among them being Governor Murphy, Secretary of the Territory Akers, several of the physicians of the city and hundreds of others. He then came to Prescott where he had an immense practice for several weeks, with good success, returning to Prescott about two weeks ago. While in Prescott the first time he began gambling and drinking very hard and has kept it up ever since, and it is supposed this had a great deal to do with bringing on the illness that caused his death. He has a wife and one child in Monterey, Mexico, who were telegraphed to for instructions as to the disposition of the remains, and word was received to bury him in Prescott temporarily, and the funeral was held this afternoon from the rooms he occupied on McCormick street, the services being conducted under the auspices of the Catholic church, of which deceased was a member. Transcriber's note: Dr. Yglesias is buried in an unmarked grave at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. |
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