The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-10
THE SCANDIA ARRIVES.
She is Stricken with the Dread
Plague.
THIRTY-TWo DEATHS ON THE WAY


Island.
QUARANTINE, Sept. 10.-Two Swedish
children, Elias Pepper Perssen, aged
years, and Victoria Elcada Perssen, aged
months, died on board the Wyoming.
They had been sick two or three days.
Bowel trouble is what the doctor treated
them for. Two other children of the
family, which came from Russia three
weeks ago, are now i'll, also the mother.
Parties who came in immediate contact
with them will be transferred to Swim
burne Island. 1t is not known positively
that the illness is cholera.
Both Drs. jenkins and Talmadge and
two officers of the steamship Wyoming,
who came ashore with them have thor
oughly fumiglted themselves. This fact
Is considered as evidence that the disease
developed among the passengers is
thought by the doctors to be cholera.
This steamship, which has been lying
within stones throw of the pier at
Upper Quarantine for two days, has
been ordered to tho lower bay, where
the other infected ships are and is now
moving down the bay.
A later dispatch says the number Of
new cases of cholera is not yet known
The development here at Upper Quaran-
tine on the Wyoming of five new cases,
two of which resulted in death and tho
other three now dangerously i'll, and the
momentarily expected arrival of the
Scandia from Hamburg, on board of
which there seems to be q forgone con-
clusion there will be cholera, has caused
excitement. The development of the
disease on board the Wyoming has
created a feeling of great uneasiness not
experienced before as this point has
been considered comparatively safe.
The Scandia Plague Stricken.
AT 1l5 this morning DR.. jenkins re-
ceived the following from Swinburne
Island over the cable signed by Dr. By
ron: ''Have visited the Scandia and find
the following: Total number of passen-
gers ,OS6; cabin, 2S; steerage, 9sl; crew,
n. On the voyage there were 32 deaths,
OF which there were 20 i'll steerage, in
cabin and among the crew. am now
starting in our tug Crystal Water to
transfer seven cases stricken with the
plague to the hospital on Swinburne
Island"
The Scandia sailed from Hamburg on
Aug. 25, and was due here Thursday. 1t
has been variously reported that she had
about 300 steerage passengers, and it
bad been expected that she would be the
final coup for the plague ridden Ham
burg-Amefican company, as the report
lest night shows that the worst fears are
more than realized. No such mortality
as that which Captain Koff has been
compelled to report has heretofore been
recorded during the present reign of the
plague
The neutrality-suspicious. company now
has six ships under the ban of the health
officers, viz: The Moravia, Rugia, Nor
MAMMA, Wieland, Stubbenhuk and the
Ecandia. The terrible report certainly
iustifes the fears of the health officer
and also his great anxiety to provide a
safe refuge for the souls that yet still re-
tain health aboard the vessel in the lower
roadstead.
The Situation Grave.
The situation here at this hour is
grayer by far than at any time since the
hrst case of cholera was brought to this
port by the Moravia, and the opinion is
expressed that the disease has reached
point where it is entirely beyond DIR,
Jenkins control, and the chances of tho
dread disease entering New York arc
very great.
The steamship Spree, from Bremen,
which arrived Sept. I, was released yes
tsrday and proceeded to her dock.
At 3:25 p. m. yellow flag was hoisted
On Hoffman Island. This means more
hckness there.
Carl Blessing, aged 3s years, who was
admitted to Swinbulne Island on Wed
nesday last, died at o'clock Yesterday
morning Ad. Weiss, aged 81 years, one
- tLn sc
taken i'll yesterday and removed to Swim
burne Island.
The official record Of the day was
three deaths and four new cases. as fol
lows: Deaths on the Wyoming-Elj
Pepper Perssen. aged 3 years, and Vic
tofia Elrader Perssor, aged q months.
On the Normannia-Ca. Blessing, aged
IS, one of the crew.
New cases on the Wyoming Two
Russian children whose names cannot
be learned, and also the mother of the
Perssen children. On the Normamnia-
Adolph Weiss, 2l one of the crew, re-
moved to Swinburne Island
The mother of the Perssor children
who died on the Wyoming, and who
was removed to Swinburne Island, has
died.
Relief for the Detained Passengers.
NEw YORK. Sept. 10.-The steamship
6tonington and the United States train
Ing ship New Hampshire are now being
fitted up for the reception of the de-
tamed passengers on the Rugia and Nor
mamma. Early yesterday morning the
Bennington arrived from New London,
where she had been lying for the past
year. A crew has been secured for her,
but her captain has not yet been decided
upon. She will leave for quarantine to-
day.
The New Hampshire reached Hoboken,
where she is being fitted up, having
made a successful trip from the Brook
lyn navy yard, with the exception Of
having twenty-five feet of her flagstaff
knocked off by coming in contact with
the Brooklyn bridge. She was towed
over by tug. On board was Boat
swain J..,L. Sutton and six sailors.
ALBANY, Sept. 10.-Governor Flower
arrived here yesterday, and after brief
consultation with the attorney general,
sent this dispatch TO DR.. w. L. Jenkins:
"Yon may purchase or rent necessary
land or buildings on Fire Island for
quarantine purposes. Do not hesitate to
do all that is needed to meet the emerg-
ency and to make the passengers as COM
Portable as possible"
The Decrease i'm Deaths Continues,
HAMBURG, Sept. 1O.-Ihe weather has
been bright and there has been cool
breeze all day. All though the ther-
mometer has stood at 50 degs. most Of
the day rise in the temperature has
hardly been noticeable, as the air ha.
been dry and inyigorating. The do
crease in the number of fresh cases and
deaths continues. Yesterday the fresh
cases numbered $780, or 10s fewer thar
Thursday; the deaths numbered 24G, Oh
81 less than yesterday, There have been
4Sl burials, or II fewer than Thursday,
In the cholera hospitals 2,941 patients
are under treatment, The has been 0
rapid decline Of the epidemic in the har.
bor district, and now there are but thirty
or forty patients in the cholera barracks
there.
LONDON, Sept. 10.-The British steam.
ahiY, TrDuoDp1is hailiup from MiIdlpg.