Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-09-17
in FINE SHAPE
TO MEET CHOLERA IF IT
SHOULD BE BAD.
New York People No! al All PanicT-Quar'
anilne Station Above Gainesville
Still Empty.
ST., .Ar1oN IN NEW YORK.


Disease.
NEW YORK, sept. 16.-The metro
| polls awOke this morning with cloud
less sky and crisp windy atmosphere.
| These conditions while cholera Is near
become daily an element In the new
situation. Frost is not far away the
| days already having chilly night and
Is not hot at nooutide. The crisp air
also braces and brightens the pOpula-
tion against fright OF that nery-
GUS apprehension that IN its results
invites the approach Of any disorder.
There has not as yet in any locality OF
the city been reported any symptoms
Of hysterlcal panic. Even the neigh
bors OF those who have been stricken
are complacent, and accept the situa-
tiOn phllOsophically The OdOr of dis
infectants Is in the air, the pungent,
oleanly smell Of chlorides from unex-
pected localities. Shoulder TO shoulder
with the cleaning department aud
health boards stand the police, the
doctors and policemen for the time be-
ing brothers, the two grimly active or
ready fOr activity.
Funds for protection are daily piling
up. In one fund, that Of the Chamber
OF Commerce. there Is now the sum of
$780, I'll. over 1853, 900 OF the total hay
ing come in yesterday. Then behind
all local effort is the proud strength OF
the state and its blunt, homespun execu-
tive. He has said he Don't care damn
for votes lost or won by any action he
may take in q case like the present
cholera trouble.n People all read this
and feel more than ever assured. And
Irtu11Nr ftf In fha han.lr frrtprtftl
is the Federal power and willingness ~
do, and this is at once comfort and
preventative Of panic. To be sure
newly arrived ship is in the oting with
moro cases of the diseale, but
are not alarmed. Yet the Bohemia Is
another Scantlia. Eleven deaths on the
voyage are given due TO gastro-iItestinal
trouble by the doctor, but according to
all appearances they were due 10 genu
plague-stricken city OF Hamburg
later Sarah Dister was taken
i'll. The weman twenty-five years Of
age aud her little child were taken off
the same day Next day Mrs, Wessli
a grown woman and two children sue
cumbed So II went on day by day.
The twelfth day saw only one death,
then the pest rested until the lay Of
arrival, when three children agui from
ono to eight years died within few
miles Of port On arrival there were
four sick on board and they were remov-
ed TO Swineburne island by DR.. Byron.
II is said by the health department
to-day that another death from sup
I'd II. II 4
was under investigation, that OF Ed
ward Hopp,
During The past twenty-four hours at
least 80 cases OF suspected chOlem were
reported Mt the health department.
Mrs. Maria Sposui, reported last night
as suffering from cholera, was exam
iued aud found free from the disease,
An Italian died in Sullivan street I'M
dor suspicious circumstances last night.
The doctor thinks 10 was cholera. The
case is being investigated.
Sanitary Superintendent Edison last
night examined Maria Connarty,
ygung Irish girl found yesterday suffer-
ing with supposed cholera He says
there Is very little doubt the girl has
cholera.
No second cases have been found in
the house
Jno. NcEvoy, the street sweeper suf-
ering with cramps was taken to ST,
Ninccnts.
The case is being Investigated. A
meteorological examination ~ mo In
tcstiual contents Of the BODY of Char
lotto Book. who died Septembor I3
revealed genuine cholera. Edward
llopp's body has been embalmed. and
the intestiues and stomach will be cx-
amined.
So fRr the board Of bealth has ba,n
r,sn. tb,t ho,.o nc,,,,,rd d, ,i,-'','i,,,
Three girls arc under Quarantine in tho
house whore Minnie Leyeringer died,
detained under strict surveillance, Ii
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