Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-09-16
More Plague Ships.

Following fast in the wake OF the Dlague
snip Moravla, two more vessels reached
New York Harbor with cholera on boar J.
They were the Normannia and RugIa,
from Hamburg and both belong 90 the Ham
hurg-Americau Packet Company. Health
Officer Jenkins reported the number of
deaths on both ships to be nine-four on
the Rugia and five on the NOrnennia. On
each vessel there were four persons still i'll
of the disease. The bodies Of the dead were
buried at sea. The plague-infected SHIPS
anchored IN the lower bay to the east and
south of Hoffman Island. No one was
allowed near them.
On the two ships there are 581 cabin pas
sen GERS VINO must stay coope1 up on board
OF the vessel until the Health Officer be-
jieves all danger is passed. Among them are
some prominent persons including Senator
Mcpherson, OF New Jersey, and a number OF
theatrical people.
The Normannia has +S3 cabin passengers
and 4S2 steerage. the Ruyia has ninety
eight cabin passengers and 436 steerage.
The four who died on the Rugia were ali
Storage passengers. OF the five who die
on the Normannia one was a fraC-ciass
pass snger, one was a SecOn i-CiaSS and three
We're Storage passengers.
On the day after the infected vessels were
sent to quarantine cholera claimed new vic
tins on every one of the three Ha nburg
steamships, and four more names must be
added to the death roll There were two
IL.
eight years oh. a Storage pasSen-
ger. succumbe1 TO the disease after an illness
of five days, an Heinrich hammers, forty
seven years old one of the Storage stew
ards died while being removed from the
ship to be taken to Swinburne Island. He
had been i'll one day.
Both DO lies were cremated at Swinhurne
Island in the afternoon. On the Ru1ia An
tOnia Harla, seventeen Years old, died after
an illness of few hours.
Abraham Schneidermann, the eight-year-
old boy who was taken sick on the Moravia,
died while being transferred to Swinburne
Island. Two new cases broke out on the
Rugia, making seven cases on board.
The Quarantine authorities seemed I'M
able to remove the sufferers to the Swinburn
Island Hospital. The dead were cremate1
late at night. There was almost a panic
among the Normannia's cabin passengers.
1t was reported by persons who approached
within haillng distance OF the ships in tugs
that the passengers were badly frightened.
When DR.. jenkins was on board one of the
passengers told him, it is said. that he could
raise 5000 on board in an instant If permis-
sion were given TO charter boat and re-
move the cabin passengers to her, the vessel
to be anchored north of the pest grounds
until the passengers could be released.
On the second day after being placed in
quarantine there were three deaths and
i've new cases of cholera on the plague feet
in the lower bay. Two tugs with policemen
went on picket duty. DR.. jenkins, New
York's Health Officer, decided to act in har-
mOny with the President.
Secretary of the Treasury Foster visited
Quarantine. He said there would be no
conflict between the State and Federal
authorities and pronounced the station one
OF the best equipped IN the country, if not
in the world. He has great faith in DR..
JenkinS'S ability to Fl ght the plague.
Two police boats have been added to the
patrol feet. Seven officers are on each tug
They will endeavor to keep every kind of
craft awsy from the pest ship1.
At the Navy Yard there are a tug and
launches all ready with stores aboard to 90
down to the lower DAY and assist the police
in their p atrol work, should such thing be
necessary. 1t seemed to be definitely settled
that there should be no more leaks from the
cholera fleet to New York.