The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-04-30
DEATH AT SEA.

FIVE PASSENGERS DIE OF STRANGE MALADY
ON The VOYAGE or THE STEAMER sorrER-
DAM 70 THIS coUNrEY-No PHYSICIAN ON
BOARD THE VESSEL
The Commissioners Of Emigration win meet to-day
at Castle Garden investigate instance Of alleged
criminal negbaencs the OF the owners OF tho
ssea mship limo plying between this port and Rotter
dam In sending steamer 10 sea with l16 passengers
on board without doctor. Il 10 not legally incum-
bent either IN Germany In this country, for pas
sengcr vessel be provided with doctor, but ac-
corning IL VI the emigration laws OF 1864,
penalty of $40 imposed for each aud every passenger
above tho OF eight years who may die on tho
voyage without proper sssisance. II Is also provided
that zach emernt ship shall have hospital on board
to which the sick may be removed from coutact with
the passengers and be specially attended 10. On
board tho Rotterdam. which reached this port Sunday
afternoon from Rotterdam I'VE passengers zone adult
aud four infants) had died whose lives might have
been saved had physician been on board. She car
red 100 Storage and l6 cabin passengers, and
among the former were nearly SCORE of children
ranging in age from q tew months 10 six years
SICKNESS AND DEATH.
According TO the chief officer, Mr.. s. J. Kryt the
passage exceedingly rough. strong westerly winds
being encountered all the way Several OF the
passengers became very scasick ana midway the
voyage the following deaths were reported from
0larrD1a.-fnlnp
Of baden. Germany; John Fey, OF Catsand, Holland
aged months; Abraham Hermann, OF Cateand,
Holland, aged Jour months; John Moran, Of Caisand
Holland, aged tour months. and jacob de Zuonde, OF
Catsand, Holland, aged SIX months. Several oil the
nouTso me Tor their babes gave out Toe latter had
then 10 be fed on such milk as tho
ship afforded Another Kind Of slckness also broke
impossible 10 determine what y was some say
ing !. was foyer and others ohicken pox Health
t,ne became convinced that Il was one Of these doubt
iul cases which, 20 avoid the possibility o. contasion
Caroline and their three children aged respectively
Ten months year and half and three years, were
ion hospitals on Biackwors Island Dr.. Vanderpoei
believing that the complaint was smallpox or vario-
ioid. The vessel thoroughly fsm,sased. the pas
ssngers all vacc,na.ed, AMI, alter detention OF an
hour shc WINS allowed 70 proceed TO her pier IN
srArEnExr or rHE AGENT.
Mr. Casaux. general agent Of the line. at No. ~
South William street ss'a there was nothing serious
taised time At Quaranttpe, whereas she bad
any injection on board she might have been KEEP!
very young children were SICK, all the other passen
gers having gone ashore tn good health the moment
The Ro.tsrdsn, al her dock in Jersey City. allowed
ali tho appear Of having experienced rouah pas
OF the inianis became, owing 10 tho way tho wee
sol rolled side TO side, and how painful IL
ne gave orders 10 feed Them with The best milk they
had warmed and diluted with water, but Il too
Tor their StOma0n6, ana they tu1eW ~ on 70.
peatediy and only made themselves worse lie had
idea what the sickness WAS and there Was no doc.
tor 10 tell, but some said IL was chicken pox and
others varoIed, Though his opiDfon Il nothing
but weakness from want Of nourshmenL. and that NO
danger coulo come oil II.
AMONG THE sTEERAGE PASSENGERS.
The steerage paesengors took up their quarters In q
ho,el IN Battery place. Que among them, Mrs. BIS
choG ho had enc little boy OF four years her
knee spoke English and SAID that the complaint the
the cnildren died OF was certainty diarrhD.
Il doo't know the ood bad said shc. 81 think
II 1.
nstning extra The cniidren that died could keep
u liz ami tnerc doctor TO tell tnO people there
what 10 give them In It's place, and thcy died. Tho
old man was very bad and - was up and down with
him all time." Mr. John Brill. OF tine passen-
gers native OF Ztnd zoande, speaking Of the death
Of old Klen, SAID that they patio bis remains all the
respect possible He was nearly seventy years old.
HIS corpse sewed up 10 saacIoth and covered with
the Duton Tag. As tho sun set In tho West toe
corpse lowered slowly and revsrcntly into the
II was weighted wnh Iron and soon sunk. Tho
little children lowered into The later night
Old Klein weak when he came on board, and the
scssckaess made him entirely helpless.
AZ Tho invostigat,on to-day Captain LvAAA Of the
ROTTERDAM, viii be called upon 70 explain