New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-26
TRIALS OF THE ADVANCE.
YELLOW FEVER RIFE AMONG HER CREW
DEATHS At SEA AND PATIENTS LEFT AT DIFF
FERENT PORTS-sTORMS AND ACCI-
DENTS TOO

bA~hAIiS Al SfA AND INliI-NAS LIE ~ DAA
FERENT PORTs-sTORMs AND ACCI-
DENTS TOO.
The United States and Brazil mail steamship
Advance sailed from Santos for this port on Fri
day January %. She came into port late on
Wednesday night after experience which her
officers and will not care to go through
again, and which will recall in the minds of the
credulOus the old sailor superstition about sailing
on Friday Yesterday morning when the Health
Officer boarded her at Quarantine it was found that
she had been visited by yellow fever on her way
up from Santos and other Brazilian ports. The
first officer and two of the crew had died on board
a number of the crew had been left in hospitals
in Brazilian ports, and number had been sick
with the disease and had recovered.
The fever first broke ont while the ship was
lying in the harbor of santos. The condition of
affairs in that city was such that all the inhabi-
tants who could get away were fleeing to the high
lands to escape the fever The captain, the purscr
and the freight clerk of the Advance were the only
people who went ashore at Santos, and they went
only on necessary business for the ship. But
in spite OF all precautions the fever
broke out on board the Advance. The first vic
tim was Julius Martylh the mess man. He was
taken sick on January 10. and was Immediately
Gerado, "A fireman. and Emil Salctto II coal
East,er, wcre taken down They also were sent
ashore. On January % the Advance left the
fcycr-strickcn port of Santos and steamed north
ward 10 Rio dc Janero. She was scarcely out
side the harbor when Charles Brophy. the cook.
was taken sick with the fever. The ship arrived
at Rio de Janeiro on January "a. and Brophy
was sent 10 the hospital there. Officers and crew
now hoped that the work Of the dread scourgc
over but il was just begun, and many more
were TO fail victims TO it. At Rio. Peter Gerado.
who had been left sick in the hospital at Santos
rcoined the ship and reported that Julius Mar
tyllh had also recovered. The Advance left Rio
on January - for Bahia. TIE day after She
sailed r. T. Baker. the first officer. was taken sick
with the fever. He died two days later Ills
body was taken ashore at Bahia and buried in the
Protestant cemetery there. Mr. Baker was one OF
the most promising young officers sailing ont OF
this port He was twcnty-cight years old and
WAS born in South Dennis on Cape Cod. His
father il captain of the big American ship kenil-
worth, and sailed from this port on February
for Portland. ore. Mr.. Baker had
cen captain of sailing vessel be-
fore he entered the Brazil mail service.
This was his second trip on the line. One of the
officers of the company said yesterday: Every
thing good that can DC said of Mr.. Baker can DE
said with truth
On the same day TINT the first officer died Ger
hard Jordan, coal-passer, was taken with the
fever and sent to tie hospital at Bahia. Two
dnys later Peter Olsen, quartermaster. was found
in his hunk sick with the fever, and he also was
sent ashore TO the hospital The Advance steamed
uorthwqrd again from Blha on Jsnulry 81. and
the same day Joseph Oswald. the second cook, MAS
taken sick with the fever. When the snip ar
rived at Pernambuco. Oswald was too sick to he
taken ashore. on February the chief engineer.
William Alvenson was taken sick, and the steamer
sailed from Pernanbuco on February with two
Of her ships company sick with the fever. There
were many long miles to De steamed before the
Advance should cross the tropics and reach the cool
regions OF the northern seas, where yellow FEVER
cannot live, and the outlook was anything but
pleasant TO the people on tie afflicted vessel.
Chief Engineer Alyeuson recovered on February
&. but Oswald, thc cook died on February !. and
WAS buried si sea. Two days before Oswald died
Antonio RulA a fireman, was taken sick. but his
fever ran e three days and thcn he recovered.
When Oswald'- body wJs buried from the decks
of the Advance. Joseph Branu!gan, a waiter.
watched the waves close over the body OF h'
shpinatc and said II live IN the next house to
him in Brooklyn. and shall have 10 break the
news to his flmily." That night Brnnigan was
taken with the lever. lir dl'u luitc u"As l""i
at Maranham and was buried there. lie was
widowcr nearly sixty years Old.
Last night when tie Advance came mp 70 her
pier his sister and his daughter stood on IN" pier
anNionsly awaiting him. As soon As the gang
plank was ont Thcy rushed aboard, when the
officers Of the ship told them as gently aS they
could Rat the old man was in his grave thousands
of miles away in Brazil. ~,
The Advance sted from Mamnham for Iara
I.,I.Y .p1n .,
occurred The sicwarcsS. Annie Iou-'N, wac
sick with the fever when the vessel sailed, nut
the fever left her on February =, anl She speedily
recovered Death seemed l0ath to loose III hold
on the shin. however, and on February James
Ham, Of Brooklyn, an ollcr struck M mead
against some steam pipes IN the cnslEc-r0Qm SO
hari that il produced conclusion ol thc Drain.
He died on February II and W. buried at SEA;
After touclna nj Para, Barbados ana ~;
Thomas. the Advance stood north into the coo
seas and never did shlp6 company icrl more
gratefully the northern winds. Even vet, how
ever. thc trials OF the Advance were NOS over. Tor
on February - northeast gale cane howllng
down on her with such force thai she was 0'ig'd
TO lie 10 for thirty-sN hours She came through
tie storm uninJurc however, ana WIN 20 souti
again on sunday She was thoroughly dslniecicI
al Quarantine Yesterday before being allowed to
come mp 10 her pier. She llad tWeNc caolh
passengers. among whom were judge +. I. blcW-
stcr of Phiadcphia the Rev. w. 4. Darlington
and John d. Spur How many Of those left
sick i'm BRAZILIAN hospitals recovered and how many
died will not De known until the neN steamer
OF the line comes up the coast
GOVERNOR ALBEIT TO GOVERNOR FLOWER.
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