Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-29
Masbingtou Ssntiml
Ireland.

| CHOLERA AT CORK AND BELFAsT-ALARMING
CONDITION OF AN AMERICAN SHIP, SUPPOSED
TO BE THE Observation-Disclosures EMIGRANTs
| DEAD.
The Dublin correspondent of the London
Times, writing upon November sth, says: The
| following distressing, if not alarming state
ment, appears in the Belfast Ne,cs Letter of yes
terday. 1t is with deep concern we have to
| announce the following facts the accuracy of
which may be relied on. A large and splendid
emigrant vessel, the Guiding Star, 1000 tons
burden, which left Liverpool on Thursday
sennight, anchored in our Lough on Saturday
morning, after being nine days in the channel,
in disabled state, and with the Asiatic cholera
of very fatal type, rife among her passengers.
Prior to this vessels departure from Liverpool,
one of her passengers died under suspicious cir
cumstances. Shortly after leaving the Mersey,
she experienced violent gales, lost her main
| topmast, mainyard, and several of her spars
and sails, and finally was obliged to enter Bel
fast Lough to reft. Before dropping..anchor
off Cultra, six further deaths had occurred on
board from cholera, or choleraic diarrhGa, and
during the day Saturday two more had died,
making nine deaths in all.
On the intelligence of her arrival under these
circumstances in our Lough, Capt. De Coursey,
the government emigration officer, accompa-
MED by DR.. niece, mayor, and DR.. Pirrie,
medical officer of the mercantile marine board,
visited the ship. DR.. Pirrie, on his return,
reported that eleven persons were lying i'll On
board, of whom ten had been seized with
cholera, and that of these several were in the
collapsed stage. Measures were at once taken
for the interment on shore of the dead, and
for the separation Of the sick from the healthy.
The captain of the ship sailed on Saturday
evening for Liverpool, for the purpose of bring
ing over q powerful steam-tug to take the
Guiding Star back to her own port. The ship
has medical officer hoard, who, we have
been informed, has been unremitting in his
care of the sufferers. We have been assured
| that all proper precautions were at once adopt
| ed to prevent the spread of contagion-if, as
some believe, the epidemic be really contagious.
Since Saturday night, five new cases of cholera
| occurred on board the vessel. According to in.
formation received at late hour last night,
we learn that the total number of deaths has
been thirteen, viz: one at Liverpool, six at sea,
and six in Belfast Lough.
! The dead bodies remaining on board were
yesterday evening conveyed to the burial ground
of the Belfast workhouse, and there inferred
| The sick, in number twelve or thirteen, have
been removed to the workhouse hospital. The
shin was left free from disease. We understand
that the Guiding Star left Liverpool with ex.
actly 536 souls on board, principally Irish, Eng
lish, and Scotch emigrants.
Misfortunes seldom come single. The Cork
Examiner, which has just come to hand, an
nounces the arrival at Queenstown of an emf
grant vessel infected with the fatal pesilence.
The particulars are annexed
| Last night a large vessel was seen making
| signals off the harbor, but at such q distance
that they were not very clearly made out at the
coast guard station at Queenstown; but this
morning she entered, when it was found, to the
CONSERVATION and dismay of the inhabitants Of
the town, that she had cholera on board to a
most alarming extent. She is large Ameri-
can vessel, and was bound from Liverpool with
emigrants for America. She was fifteen days
out up to the time of her putting into harbor
this morning, during which time cholera made
its appearance on board, and of the most viru-
lent and fatal character. Already there have
been fifty persons attacked, and out of these
eighteen have died, and the bodies thrown over
board. A number of the emigrants were Ger
mans On her arrival in the harbor, she took
up her position below the Spit Buoy, in the
quarantine ground, and she has been visited by
Captain Friend, the emigration officer of the
port accompanied by Mr.. Scott. What their
report is we have not yet heard. Immediately
upon the announcement i'll Cork of the arrival
Of this vessel, the mayor dispatched, by one Of
his sergeants, strong letter to the Admiral,
urging that the vessel should be placed in the
strictest quarantine. The mayor and high
sheriff left Cork at o'clock for Queenstown, to
provide for such measures as may be found re-
quisite in this emergency. We understand the
vessel is the Kossuth.
A report of further particulars is published
in the London Times of the 9th November,
from which it appears that the ship was the
Kossuth, of New York.