The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-08
MUST PREPARE FOR IT.
THE DREADED sCoURGE IS KNOCKING
AT OUR DOOR.
Quarantine officers Have Little hope Of
Keeping 1t 0ut-Government officials
Taking Active steps-No New
Cases on the Moravia.


first tidings of the president having
issued orders for twenty days quaran
tine against migrant steamships
The meaning of the order was moi
clear and the agents did not know
whether it applied to steamers carry
ing Storage passengers, or all vessel;
carrying cabin and Storage. 1t would
mean great financial loss either
way, but if applied to the latter
class they saw disastrous condition
of things in it. The Inman line man.
agement have decided to carry only
first and second cabin passengers from
Liverpool during September.
A dispatch from quarantine was re.
ceived at 6 p. M, saying that DR.. Jen-
kins had just returned from Hoffman
island and the steamer Moravia.
There are no new cases and no fresh
developments, but one of the crew OF
the steamship Hazel Kirke was taken
sick, aud either knowing or fearing
drowned himself. President Wilson
of the health board said, this after
noon that he had selected suitable
location for cholera camp in the event
of general outbreak of the plague.
IN NEW YORK HARBoR.
QUARANTINE N. Y, Sept. 1.-The
steamer MOravia was sent to the lower
l., 90
Island this afternoon. DR.. Sanborn
reports that there are no new cases on
board. The Vandamme's storage pas
sengers were sent this morning to
Hoffman Island where the passengers
were bathed and baggage and cloth
ing disinfected as the captain of the
Vandamme refused to allow
the disinfecting process to
he accomplished on board
the steamer Officer Jenkins goes to
New York this morning to attend u
meeting of the city board of health.
The steamers Gallia and Lain are de.
tanned until the five days of quaran-
tine required by health regulations
have elapsed. The Gallia has 275
Russians and 100 poles aboard. The
saloon passengers OF both steamers
will probably be allowed to land be-
fore night. The steamer Circassia
left quarantine ut IL this morning tor
her dock.
HARBoR POLICE.
NEW YORK, Sept. DIR. Jenkins
this morning that he was
going to have four special harbor pc.
lice appointed to patrol the bay, with
orders to shoot any one attempting to
land from any of the quarantined YES
sells. All transatlantic steamships
scheduled to arrive up today have
been heard from. Reports have been
received and announcement made by
health officers that these vessels are
all clean and their passengers in
healthy condition,
THE MoRAVIA's CAPTAIN.
New YORK, Sept. 1.-Considerab
excitement was occasioned by the re-
port that the captain of the Moravia
went ashore on Staten Island last
night. Health Officer Jenkins &C.
knowledged that such was q fact and
said that he Immediately ordered the
captain back to his ship. DR.. Jenkins
stated, however, that the captain had
had no intercourse with the infected
part of the ship.
AFFLICTED HAMBURG.
BERLIN, Sept lit was tele.
graphed here this morning that chol-
era statistics issued by the Hamburg
authorities showed, according to am
bulance returns, that l39 new cases
and forty-five deaths occurred yester-
day. There is a very wide discrep-
ancy in these figures and those issued
today by the imperial board of health,
and the impression grows that Ham,
burg officials are either guilty ofneg-
ligence or else are attempting to con-
ceal the truth of affairs. According
to the imperial board of health there
are 496 new cases and deaths num-
bered 10S.
1t may be, however, that Hamburg
officials include in their deaths only
the people who die in ambulances on
the way to the hospital. 1t is impos.
sible to account for the difference in
figures. The imperial board of health
also reports that Tuesday there where
seventy-three new cases and thirty
QUE deaths in Altonia and seventy
three new cases and thirty.one deaths
throughout Schleswig, two new cases
and two deaths in Luenburg, the last
named place being a suburb of Berlin
Hamburg presents most funereal APP
pearance. There Is scarcely u house
in the streets along the water front
from which several victims of the dis
ease have not been taken. In some
instances houses are entirely vacant,
all their occupants being dead. There
is no resumption of general business
and so many of the shops are closed
that the streets look as though it was
There is steady stream of
vehicles conveying the dead to the
cemetery and it is thought that by
tonight hundreds of bodies that
should have been buried a day or
more ago will have been disposed of.
A greater part of the bodies reported
yesterday as lying uucared for in the
drill sheds have been inferred.
Great interest is manifested by the
simple but seemingly effectual treat
ment recommended by Professor
and Professor Kahler, and
it may be that decrease in the fear
full mortality can be ascribed to this
treatment which is nothing but CIV
ing patients injections of warm salt
water. 1t is claimed by those who
have followed this course of treatment