The New York herald., 1872-11-28
SMALLPOX AT QUARANTINE
Arrival of Vessels with the L0athe.
some Disease.
The Bark Columbia, from Bremen-Five Deaths
at Sea and Twenty-Five Sick and Dying
The Schooner Elizabeth Magee, from
Boston, Also Infected-Actlon
Of the Health officials

During the past five or six months the viglant and
kind hearted officers OF our port at Quarantine
have been spared the pain often incidental to their
constant duties In boarding vessels OF witnessing
sickness and death about thcm and listening to the
SAD stories OF dying emgrants, whO storm-toss
on the bosom OF the deep, have succumbed to some
terrible epidemic, whose deadly poison was only
developed after days at These officials have
often heard with sympathetic hearts such Sorrow
ing tales While they endeavored to alleviate pain
and assuage the grief of sisters, brothers. fathers
and smothers who had lost their dearest relatives
froma
DREAD DISEASE, !,
and they too are familiar with the stories or sail.
ors rescued from the jaws of death and know the
first history OF shipwrecked vessels and steamers
made unmanageable by gales and hurricanes. To
them such stories are not new, and the past week
was full OF the latter as every new arrival seemed
to bring more painful accounts OF the terrible
storms which recently swept over the Atlantic dis
mantling and sinking the stoutest ships that ever
stemmed mountainous seas. But In all the tales or
HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING
there have fortunately been but few disasters
fatal to the hardy crews who man them. and.
almost miracuousy, the long voyages made have
not been instrumental but in one case in
spreading disease among vessels crowded with
emigrants. That case came to the eyes OF the
Quarantine officials yesterday, and, though sadder
stories are remembered by scores, 1t is enough to
make those not familiar with the sufrerings OF the
poorer classes that cross the ocean, to pity them
in the fullest tenderness OF their hearts. The
NORTH GERMAN BARK COLUMBIA, -t4
with two pulling tugs stopped their headway or
Quarantine about two O'Clock in the afternoon,
and after boarding other vessels whose prior
arrival demanded it-"for 1t Is first come first
served" in this important .work-the Deputy
Health Onicer stepped ON the deck Of the bark and
his practised eye told him at once there had been
and was sickness ana serious trouble there.
| lett Bremen fifts-twO days beOte, with a crew OF
twenty and 1897 passengers old and young male and
female married and single bound for this port full
Of the aspiration which the more intelligent
German emigrant possesses when safely embarked
and going below the officer iound not TO his dis
may for he was familiar with such sights, but to
his great grief TWENTY-FIVE helpless men and wo-
NEAR UNTO DEATH,
down with that loathesome disease. the small
pox; and more, he ascertaincd that during the
voyage i've mad died-two infants one lad and two
grown persons-and were buried at sea. 1t is not
too much to say the sight OF the sick was extremely
disgusting but with that promptitude character
stic OF the perfect system in vogue to protect our
city from the encroachment OF any pestilence or
disease in this manner action was at once taken TO
relieve, first, the worst caSes-thOse who were
IN THE MOST PAIN,
and then to LOOK TO tne c9miort Q, the many tnas M
such purposes was at once sent for and upon Its ar
| rival the twenty-five sick were passed over the
side of the vessel wrapped comfortably in blankets,
and, long before the surrounding men In small
boatsknew OF the matter the suffering emigrants
| were on their way to the Smallpox Hospital
ON BLACKwELLs ISLAND
| where that care which their cases demand will be
! extended to them. Then the indcfatgable doctors
went to work to protect the $40 other passengers,
who did not exhibit any symptoms OF the disease,
| and at once vaccnated them with due care, and
the still other precautionary measure OF umigating
the bark was at once proceeded WITH Tnls done,
tie Of those that died at sea were takeA and
found to be as iollows:-
| DEATHS AT SEA.
Johann q. Karnasch, infant.
| Frederick Sudde, German, infant.
Maria Dubrich, German, eight years.
Michael Bagacke, POle twenty-f0ur years.
George Meister, German thrty-three years.
the same time their little ones gasped their last
and the misery I'm their hearts at having lost them
and knowing the ocean had received their bodies,
was simply terrible and needs no recital.
SENT TO THE LOWER BAY.
Later In the day DR.. Vanderpoe, Health Oncer
the infected vessel from all other craft and from
proximity to the shore Of Staten Island, ordered
the Columbia to be anchored in the Lower Bay,
which was at once done, and neither the citizens
OF that locality nor oil New York
NEED BE ALARMED.
The officials OF Quarantine are and have always
been prepared for such dread visitors to this port
as the Columbia, and Will stay their progress at the
boarding station
ANOTHER SMALLPOX VESSEL.
The schooner Elizabeth Magee, Captain Barrett,
eleven days from Boston, came into port Yesterday
at duk, with one case ofthe same loathsOme disease
found in the Columbia. The vessels qnarantined,
and, after the removal OF the sick seaman was
Iumigated and all necessary precautions in the
case at once taken. .~>