WELL KNOWN YOUTH IS VICTIM OF LOCK JAW
TETANUS, DEVELOPED FROM BITE OF DOG, PROVES FATAL TO BUFORD BAILEY, OF THIS CITY.
After suffering from days with tetanus, or lock-jaw, developed as the result of being bitten by a dog on Sept. 15, Buford Bailey, a well known young man of this city, son of Ben H. Bailey, one of the pioneers of McAlester, died at the family residence, 229 West Choctaw Avenue, just after 12 o'clock Thursday.
Young Bailey was employed by the Jones Motor Company, having recently completed a course in a Kansas City electrical engineering school.
On September 15 he was bitten by a vicious dog, which also bit several other persons, among them Mary Carlton, Tom Emanuel and William Stover. The dog's head was sent to the state laboratories at Oklahoma City for analysis to determine if the animal had been affected with rabies, but it got lost in transit and went to Kansas City instead, consequently was never examined.
None of the other persons bitten have developed any symptoms of either tetanus or hydrophobia. All have taken the Pasteur treatment, however.
Young Bailey was bitten on the thigh, and tetanus set up last Sunday. He suffered greatly until the end came Thursday. Physicians attending the case said, however, that tetanus could have developed from the dog-bite without the animal being affected with rabies.
Funeral arrangements provide for a service at the family residence Saturday morning, Rev. Walter Douglas preaching the funeral sermon. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The deceased is survived by his parents, and by two brothers, Roland of Muskogee and Ben. H., Jr. of McAlester, and by two sisters, Mrs. Kate Phillips of Atoka and Mrs. S.M. Perry, of Shamrock.
Source: Pittsburg County Guardian, McAlester, Oklahoma, Thursday, September 25, 1919; Pg. 1, Column 6
