The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-09
More Cholera Cases Are Reported on
Steamers Among the Quaran-
tine Fleet
A Refuge Camp ID Established at
Sandy Hook for Cabin
Passengers.
How tho BAKgage of Cholera Suspects Il
Treated by tho H~alth Authorities
st Berlin. ..as

same signal WAS flying ut Hoffman island,
indicating the discovery of additional
cholera GASES this morning. Up to yester-
day evening there had been thirty ono
casss of sickness from tho disease, and
eight deaths at this port. The stokers on
the Normania seem to be tho greatest SUI
err. Eight Of the crew OF that vessel wsrs
transferred yesterday afternoon to Swim
burne island. These men had only the
day before besn taken back to the ship,
after twelve hours' stay on Hoffman ISL
and, whore they had bsen disinfscted with
all possible thorouRhness. slong with 500
others. They were taken back TO the ship
apparently in excellent hoalth. The doc
tors will not admit positively that these
eight patients have the cholera, nor will
they dsay il.
DIR. Cyrus Edison. sanitary supsrintend-
snt, received dispatch from DR.. Ssibert,
who il in Berlin on behalf of tho New York
health department.. He says: ''Berlin
stsams all articles from Hamburg one hour.
The highest opinion is that all rivers in
northern Europe are infected. and new
outbreaks are expected. The law will stop
all Russian immigr ration passing quarsn-
out the disease. The only efficient method
for you in America 10 to steam immigrant
baggage or other articles, for st least an
hour, They must be steamed sinRly, or
else immigration must be stopped. The
germs are everywhere. No port is safs.''
The borough board OF health was sent
from Atlantic Highlands to protest to Gov.
Abbet against the landing Of passengers of
infected ships on Sandy Hook. The bor-
ouRh has provided a day and night water
and land patrol service to that end.
DR.. Jenkins later in the day accepted
Sandy Hook az the cholera refuge for the
cabin passengers of pest ships. He hopes
to obtain permission to use Fire island
also. In addition the steamboat Ston ing
ton has been purchased by j. Pierrepont
Morgan for cabin passengers Of detained
steamers.
Cholera on board the Morayia has been,
to all appearances, stamped out. The Citv
OF New York and the La Bourgoyne left for
New York. Chauncey M. Depew and secre-
tary, and the wife and daughter of Sec
4xaAsy Foster wore. taken off the City of
New York. The steamer Elbe left qnaran-
tine at three O'Clock this afternoon. The
Belgian steamer Waesland, Captain Grant.
from Antwerp, which has been among the
4UNk dHtAu6 Acee ia upper Ohy, was FSio6Geu
this evening by order Of the health author
itiss and proceeded to dock.
The following letter. written on the Nor
mania, Sept. 7, was received in the city
to-day at the office of the Evangelist, from
Rev. Daniel Fisher, DID,, LID. president
of Hanover college, Indiana: I'm behalf
Of the cabin passengers of this ill-fated
ship appeal to you for help. We are per-
fectly willing to be quarantined, but in the
name of humanity and of civilization. not
to speak of Christianity, let the quarantine
be at least rational and not barbarous.
"We have not been sick in the cabin. ex-
eept in one case. which seems to have had
almost no choleraic symptoms, and that
occurred two days ago. We succeeded in
getting the steeraRe away, but the crew
cannot be removed. The ship must have
them aboard. One after another tAey
sicken. Under these circumstances we
scarcely dare hope that ultimately We shall
antine snd2 Think Of ths children, women.
feeble PERSONS any set Of men, even crimi-
mails, loft to wear out the danger of the
cholera in this fashion. Anchor the ship
out a. far at sea rs possible and let the
disease do what it can. If any set of people
peril AZ ours, millions OF voices would be
raised to rescue without days delay.
Why are We unworthy of help situated as
we are? Surely not because help is impossi-
BILE. Put as on another vessel, land us at
some safe point on the shore, and seclude
US to any extent. But for Gods sake do
not perpetuate this barbsrism ON us here
for a day longer. Try to help us at once.
Yours very truly. d, W. FISHER.
Up. s.--Why are We on the ship? Be-
cause the agent Of the company in London
assured almost every passenger who en-
barked at Southampton that there was no
steeraRe on this trip. Some OF us have his
written statement that the ship sailed from
Hamburg without steerage."