The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-23
oIsoRAcEFuL SCENES.
. Fire Island Mob Keeps the Passengers
OF the Inflated Normsnnia From Land.
log Mt the Haven Prepared For Them.

q Fire Island Mob Keeps the Passenger
OF tho m-Fated Normannia From Land
log mt the Haven Prepared For Them.
QUARANTINE, $. L., Sept. 1a.-Yester
day will probably be looked on In fu
ture years as n Of the most horribl,
r~eproaches on American civilization
that has ever occurred in American his
tory. Federal government on one side
state government on the other-bott
anxious TO be the rescuing party-and
in front local authorities and private
people forcing back the victims from
their haven Of refuge.
To go back To the beginning of the
story the Normannia cabin passengers,
who had been for eight days confined
TO a cholera stricken ship were greeted
on Saturday with the promised and
long hoped for relief in the shape of
the Stonington, to which vessel they
were transferred Sunday evening. For
the first night for days they slept ia
peace and satisfaction. Sunday they
were to go 10 Fire island, which.
through Gov. Flowers generosity, had
been secured with all its houses and
the Surf hotel for the accommodation of
the first and second cabin passenger,
OF the Inflated Normannin. On Satur-
day night they slept on the Stonington.
but in the morning il was discovered
that she had no means for cooking. was
too deep draught To- cross the bar and.
according to statements made, she was
too old and unseaworthy to venture SO
Tar In the open ocean.
The iron steamboat Ccpheus was then
hired and the first and second class
CABIN passengers started for their prom
iscd land. The weather was rough and
many were seasick, but they cared lit
tie for that, happy in their escape from
h prison ship Normannia. After a
voyage Of about t~hirty-six miles the
captain weakened and said he was afraid
to take h Cepheus over the bar without
u pilot. In consequence of this the iron
steamboat started back TO the horseshoe
bend and the first-class passengers were
once more put on board the rickety old
Stonington liner. The second cabin
passengers were kept on board the
Cepheus without bed or even a pillow
on which to lay their heads. They were
strewn about the scttees and carpsted
decks of the steamer.
a storm had been brewing, however.
around Babylon and Islip since the first
rumor OF Fire island being turned into
n quarantine station had been heard.
The ~Babylonians and their near neigh
bors cared not for the suiferings OF their
fellow co%untrymen and women. They
did not care IL they died of cholera,
starved or were drowned. All they
thought of in their craven hearts was
the totally improbable proposition of
their being attacked by the pestilcnce,
owing to the proximity OF a number of
iadfes, gentlemen and children who
never had cholera in their midst, who
have lived for a fortnight on board a
plague stricken ship without being
ouche and who were returning to
their homes.
The craven hearted creatures, tremb-
ling from their own imaginary fears
rather than from any real danger, not
only nvoked b arm of the law, bv
means OF an anomalous legal stay en-
titled an injunction, but had assembled
as an armed mob a hundred strong to
drive these helpless women and child.
rem back TO the cholera ship and to ut
NIL events n possible death.
The governor begged and implored.
DIR. Jenkins prayed these cowardly men
allow the passengers to land. Telc-
gram after telegram wal flashed over
the wire assuring the men of Islip and
those of Babylon that they'ran no risk.
They were obdurate. They would not
In and the passengers Of the Nor
are now lying In the inlet by
island.
The passengers appointed a commit.
toe, with Senator Mcpherson MS chair
man, to confer with the mob Of vio-
ence. The latter refused to withdraw
the injunction and SO for last night at
least they "a claim the victory, a vic.
tory gained over All helpless women
and children and the equally unofYend-
ing husbands.
A newspaper man conveyed TO Gov.
Flower the knowledge that Judge
Barnard, OF Brooklyn, had issued an in
junction to prevent any Of the people
from the cholera ship from landing at
island. The governor was much
Dcttled md evnrocso1 ,,,x,ss.