New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-14
AN END TO THEIR TORTURE.
PASSENGERS sNUGLY HOUSED ON FIRE
ISLAND.
THE MOB WAS A MoCKEsY MOST OF YESTERDAY
FOOD FOR THE UNFORTUNATE VoYAGERS
on THE CEpHEUS-PRECAUTIo TO
PREVENT THE BURNING OF
fsr rELEeRAPa TO THE rRIpvxR1

Fire Island. Sept. l3.-The worthy cit
izcns OF Isp have reason to conGratu-
late themselves on the complete triumph
that they won on Monday over law, justice and
humanity For another day and night 500
Of their feliow-creatures some old and feeble, 9th
ers young delicate and fral still others prostrat'd
by sixteen DAYS Of confinement and sickness: all
weary and broken down, were huddled together
on board Coney Island steamboat They had
heds-nfty mattresses among 500. They had
had food-enouch to half feed hundred empty
stomachs This had the mercy of lslip granted
them Yet. yesterdays sun rose upon scene
of dcsolation and suffering such as one would not
want TO witness more than once in lifetime
This WAS the spectacle that greeted Dr. Noight
and his little hand of followers Watching on the
hotel piazza: a crowd of white, drawn. hagsard
faces looking eutreatinsly toward the shore; on
the pier confronting them the relay of stolid.
stupid. nsensate brutss. some left on guard by
The sapient administrators of 1sp law, others
swora In as unwilling deputies by Supervisor
YounQ. Look from one to another of those faces
for one gleam of pity and YOU would look in vain.
II any Of these men, men and chilarcn, who
came 10 America OF Normannia. live for
another hundred years, Is likely that the mem-
ory Of this hideous tim viii b. Present with
them up TO the last moment Of their lives. They
will still be conscious of that when they arc
conscious Of nothing else To those whose duties
compelled them TO bc witnesses Of the torture.
the ordeal was in sonsc the very acme of
agony Newspaper men become hardened to most
things in the world, but nothing in humanity had
prepared them for this. Some with mothers,
wives and sisters. or even little children at
home felt their eyes dimmed, and big, chok-
Ing lump, rising in their throsts, as they thought
of these other mothers sisters. wives and little
ones on board the boat, lying scarcely fifty Yards
away To eat TO sleep with that sight before
their eyes was impossible.
TORTURED ON THE CEPHEUs.
Every one who has travelled to Concy Island
knows the iron steamboat Cepheus Most New
Workers have travelled that or q sister boat
in the heat of midsummer afternoon. Then
when every campstOol and seat is snapped up, and
one is obliged to stand for an hour in the heat Of
broiling sun, there is just enough discomfort to
make every weary of the earth Let those who
hrs, gone through even thin eXperieEcH imrEine
500 creatures pcnt up Oh the same boat for two
days and nights without bedding, without ie0.
and without any couch but the hard boards Of o."
deck.
just after o'clock this morning DR.. jenkins
landed from q steam launch on Fire Island, ana
meeting DR.. Voisht had an hours talk with hun
The upshot Of the conference was expressed in Dr
Jenkins assurance that something would be
done The the Health Officer went over to the
Ccpheus All was quiet as he neared the boat,
save for the occasional wall of child or the SOB
bing oil the wonien
ABUSING DIR. JENKINS.
But az soon as Or. Jcnkinss voice was heard
hailing the boat. the throng on board started up
from their beds Oh the floor Of the deck or saloon
and crowded to the rails all anxious to get sight
Of him. Then on the boat arose chorus Of fierce,
hoarse, passionate pproach and vituperation.
Every epitah In the English DICTIONARY or out Of
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