New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-05
MORE DEATHS DOWNTHE BAY
CASES on THE PLAGUE SHIPS.
CHOLERA CLAIMS MORE VICTIMS AT The
CITY'S GATES

THERE IS A CONFUSION OF THE DEATH RENo"D'
BUT DR.. JENKINS SAYS SIX HAVE Dlhp
SINCE SATURDAY-A CLOSE WATCH kEfr
on THE GUARANTEED VESSELS.
Sunday at lower Quarantine a day oil
death. Dr. Jenkins came ashore late on oa'uI
day night and reported that two people had dleo
in the Normannas steerage one on the MoraN"
and one on the Ruga that night Emma horh
five years old, and five days ill., died yesterday
morning on the Normannia. Heinrich Sammer
the stecrage steward of that vessel was taken
i'll yesterday morning and died while being IT,
moved 10 the transfer boat. On the MoraNia
Abraham Snydccker died aiter a short Illness
This was the case of illness reported in yestcr-
days paper. On the Rugia girl seventeen years
old named Antona IIark, died. She arrived at
this port sick.
There are two new cases of illness the Rugla,
Christian and Peter Hansen, ten ana
eiaht years old. The bodies of those who d"d
on Saturday night and those who died YESTERDAY
WIRE crematcd at Swinburne Island yesterday
afternoon The living sick of the Normannla
five in number, were transferred to SwlnDuihe
Island The passengers OF the Rugia are stu on
the ship.
The cabin passengers on the Norinannia are al
reported well The one case which appeared al
the second cabin of that vessel has been com
pIetelv isolated It is probable that the caolh
passengers will bc fumigatcd and dIslniec'eu "n
hoard shin without being transferred to Hoffman
Island uness new cases break out amone theni'
The stecra9c passengers of the Normanna were
scnt 70 Hoffman Island Yesterday, and are being
disinfected and fumgatcd One Of the Children
who is i'll among the Normannia's passengers IL
One Of the Horn children. and she is not eApec'e'
o.. live JIer mother died the voyage.
CONFUSION OF RECORDS.
There has been a mistake somewhere In the
record Of deaths owing probably to the iac' "'a'
Dr. jenkins was out in the Bay since early hIo'"-
ing and arrived at Quarantine too late 10 MAKE
corrections in the records. The papers yer"fu'H
morning printed the fact that three deaths oo-
cured on the quaranincd ships up to an cary
bour Yesterday morning The Doctor last night
said that four persons had di"d since he made ms
last report but he was also positive that only
six cases altogether had died in the harhor Inc
mistake will probably M cleared up to-day
About | o'clock this morning Drs. Tallmadge
and Sanborn were ordered To GO down 10 Hoffman
and Swinburnc Islands the Quarantine tender.
II was reported that new cases had developed. anu
the expectation was that there were more deaths
on the Normanna Rngia.
Quarantine station has been practically trans
fcrrcd and the real quarantine ia now bo"'r
Quarantine further down the bay There VeS~'is
are stopped and boarded, and when ships come
as far as Upper Quarantine of Siaton Islanh' II
may bc accepted as proof that they are all rig"'
90 far AS the health officers know. At Lower
Quarantine Yesterday the three plague ships still
lav AZ anchor, avoided by all But on board the
situation hrd bccn Changed. The passengers 70
longer maintained their indifferent attitude.
TuE TRUTH KEPT FROM PASSENGERS.
The remarkable fact that there did not serm
10 he a panic, and not even fear or appfch'hSi""
among the passengers on hoard oi III" wv" ho"
nlague stricken ships aroused much wonder ard
surpri-, among the boarding officers am Otl'r'
who approached the quarantined vessels The fact
that the stceragc passengers on tn" Moravli were
so strangely Indifferent might have been ac-
counted for. and was on tine score that they w"r"
all ignorant and stolid people, who belonged TO
pblecmntic races and were not likely e. bc panic
stricken even had they realized the deadly natur"
Of the discasc But with the passengers on th"
Normannia and Rugia II different. Here
were two great shipe, both pafronzed by many
educated people, and one n trst-ciaNs passenger
liner Many Of the stccrage passengers were oi
the better class Of immigrants. and indlher'hce
on their part could not bc explained by saying
that they too ignorant 10 know the danger
AnG the cabin passengers. among whom were
many wel-known people, seemed "a feel Jns' IL
easy and were apparently as free from care AZ II
the voyage instead Of having been race WIN
fbe plague had been ordinary voyage over
the summer ocean, without II single unpleasant III
cedent 10 mar the trip From bow to stern. In
cabin and steera2e. people laughed ana spoFc OF
comparatively indifferent topics as II there were
i. ...I ahnur1
was a strange thing TO see, and on Saturday it
seemed inexplicable But the explanation came
yesterday.
THEY DID NOT KNOW THERE WAS PEST.
H. seems that the surgeons Of both ships had
kept the nature Of the diseasc which was killing
the passengers "A secret from everybody on board
and the passengers were therefore ignorant OF the
true condition OF affairs They had no thought
that they were n ship that bore the pest, ana
they laughed and dined and slept comfortably and
placidly. But when their arrival here they
found their ships oucasts, when the tug with the
yellow flag ordered them away from the land which
they had looked forward to with such pleasant
| antic patton. they had rough awakening from
their fancicd security Then they discovered what
| the elastic term ohSlcrinc" meant, and II was
bad night that they spent in the dismal Lower
| Ouarantine of the bleak and forbldding Swim
| burne Island with its gloomy pcsthoises and the
smoking crcmatory.
| RELEASING NONINFECTED VESSELS.
| The Stubbcnhu; released from Lower
| Quarantine as no cases Of illness appeared on
| hoard of her. and she was sent 10 Upper tluaran-
| tine The hospital ship, J. g. Carleton, was taken
| from Mannings Basin yesterday morning at hieh
tide and anchored about four miles soath-south-
west Of Swinburne Island. Her crew was put
| aboard Yesterday. Four nurses from Bellevue
| Uospital went down to the Lower Bay also. AT
| Inner Quarantine there were held yea