Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-14
DISMAL On FIRE ISLAND.
A Heavy Southeast storm PrevsiIing--Ths
Military Guard.

Military Guard.
FIRE ISLAND, Sept. IA heavy southeast
storm prevailed here all night and the SEA ran
very high The Cepheus is still anchored in
the channel. The Normannia's passengers are
all quartered a; the hotel. All il quiet.
When =. Il. Wall left the Cepheus yesterday
in a small boat and approached the pier with .
big batch of kilograms TO friends and
relatives of the detained passengers on
ward and refused TO allow him
10 hand them to DIR. Noight. He was, there
fore, obliged to dictate the messages TO the
newspaper men, who took copies and trans
mitted the teiegrams to New York. Some Of
these messages manifestly intended 70
meet the eye Of the public.
Mr.. L. L. Godkin tells u story Of the expe-
riences of his fellow passengers during the
night in this dispatch:
The night on board the boat was most
terrible. In spite of small supply Of
mattresses and blankets from the hotel
the women and children all slept deck. The
weather was fine. which in some degree dimin-
ished the suffering. but the plight of the chill
dren and lnfirm was sesere. Regular service IL
impossible We fear one or two deaths from
exhaustion If the situation continues unchanged
for twenty-four hours"
The wind Is now blowing gale. and all night
n shook the roofs and bended the trees. Sleep
ing, to any person unaccustomed TO such
weather, was out Of the question, for shutters
and doors banged from sunset to sunrise In q
manner which threatened to tear them from
their fastenings.
The great bay l. whipped into foam and
green tumbling waves defy the bravcst Of bay
men to launch their craft while the gale I,-a-
walls. aud the ''shell backs of this neighbor-
hood say that this kind Of weather is liable TO
prevail for a week to come.
II the weather continues nasty for a week,
as the bay men predict, there will not be much
chance of landing the sixty ninth regiment and
the naval reserves who, il il announced. intend
10 make another attempt to land from the Pc
gasus. which put back for New York las; night
on account of the storm.
The aspect of affairs has not changed since
last night told in these dispatches. Gov.
Flower decided after exchanging several tele-
grams with Sheriff Darling Of Suffolk county
TO ask that official 10 remain for the
present, and in spite of the suggestions
of the sheriff that the troops be withdrawn, the
governor insisted in quiet but firm manner
that the soldiers and sailors should remain here
until all danger of interference with the state
authorities had passed. As the danger may
exist as long as the Fire Island quarantine oc-
cupation is not definitely decided by the court,
ii will be that the troops may stay for
some time TO come. There Is no doubt that the
bay men are very angry, but IL would seem
that one company OF troops on Fire Island
would be sufficient TO meet any emergency that
might arise, for il is slowly dawning upon the
rioters that leaving out the criminal side Of the
case there will be a heavy bill of expenses
for Suffolk county taxpayers 10 meet when this
little disturbance il over. The leaders Of the
riot are SO well known that there will be diff-
Guilty in fixing the blame for the disturbance
where IL really belongs.