Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-14
LANDED AT LAST
 ON FIRE ISLAND The, Normaunia's Weary Pas. sengers Finally Reach
 Terra Firma.
MOB SCATTERED WHEN THE MILL
 TIA WAS CALLED OuT.:
NO NEW CASES ARE REPoRTED

tion-Departurs of Troops-A Heavy Gale CompeIs the Steamer Which Car rIes Them to Put In at Sandy Hook fo, Aboard the Ceph~us Overjoyed at Their Deliveranoe-As A System of Night Signals ArranEed--The Plague Abroad.
 NEW YORK, Sep. 14.-At last the ill starred cabin passengers of the steamship Normannia are on dry land. Their even. tual transfer to Fire Island ends a series of misfortunes and vicissitudes that is without parallel in the history of 'Ameri can tourists returning from summer wis. its to Europe. They would probably still be confined on frail pleasure steamer, al the mercy of a raging storm, if General Term of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn mad not dissolved the injunction forbid ding them to land, and the action of tn, Governor in sending troops to the Island had not scattered like chaf the inhumaI mob. I%~
 Here were a number of citizens of this Republic, who could, individually and through friends, raise, it is estimated, $1 ,000, ,000. Yet their lot since Saturday last has been worse than that of the most impoverished immigrant who started
 
 Normannia. Indeed, though concededly free from cholera infection, these well-to- do and influential citizens found them selves in a condition to which that of the pest suspects in the steerage-save for the fear that they might become plague stricken-was preferable.
 These latter were warmly housed and properly fed. The saloon passengers were hustled from vessel to vessel without en- ohalt iOfo ant food. Hurriedly transferred from the Normannia to the Stonington, they dis covered that the Sound steamer had an insufficient water supply, and was abso lutely devoid of culinary facilities. Again hurried to the iron steamboat Cepheus they had the terrible experience of finding the vessel unvictualled and unprepared with necessary beds and bedding.
 Of course this may be explained by the fact that when the Normannia's cabin passengers were placed on the Cepheus it was expected that she would run to Fire Island in two hours, and in less than that time discharge her passengers at the hotel prepared by the State for their accommo- dation. But still the fact remains that since Saturday afternoon until p. m. yesterday, or for just three days, not only men, but frail women and delicate chill dren, and many infirm persons, almost in the shadow of Liberty's statue-peo- pie who have unlimited financial means at communicative been in worse straits than the most abject pauper in this great land.
 The inhumanity of the Long Island bay men who refused suppliant women and dependent children food and bed clothing on Monday night was not more wonder full to see than their cowardice in fleeing when the announcement was made that troops were on their way to disperse them.
 Governor Flower had spent all of Mon day night considering plans to over come the opposition to the use of Fire Island as a quarantine camp. He was in consultation here and there with differ ent health officials, lawyers and various city officials, and at 4 o'clock yesterday morning sent despatch to Adjutant- | General Porter instructing him to have the Sixty-ninth Regiment assemble at | their armory.
 As a result an order reached the 69th | regiment s commanding officer at 5 o'clock from General Porter directing him to hold 250 men of his command in readiness to proceed to Fire Island immediately.
 By o'clock Col Cavanagh, Lieut.. Col. Moran, Major Duffy and most of the | officers of the regiment were assembled in l the armory. Shortly after ten o'clock the battalion left the armory and P TO- ceeded to pier 36 North river and em- | parked on a steamer in waiting. | Rev. Hugh O'Kelly, chaplain of the regiment, accompanied the troops. l They were joined by the Naval Reserves, and after the latter had embarked, the steamer pulled out for Fire Island. l Captain Miller of the first battalion Naval Reserves, acting under orders from Governor Flower, reported his battalion fully equipped for service at Pier 88, l North river, at S:30 a. m., where they embarked on a steamer for Fire Island, supplied with heavy underwear and two days rations.
 including officers, the battalion is over 800 strong, and these men, armed with cutIasses, revolvers and rifles, on board tugs in Great South bay or patrolline Fire Island beach, could keep of all in truders. They are all we'll drilled.
 Four howitzers and four Gatling guns were received from the Navy Yard, and taken along.
 Two thousand rounds of ammunition are also slowed away on the Pegasus, the steamer on which the reserves sailed.
 Owing to the severe gale the Pegasus was obliged to put in at Sandy Hook fo shelter -..i....
 The news of the coming of troops added fuel to the already heated condition O l the Bayshoremen, who refuse to listen t. reason, argument or even the law. They knew that the State authorities were de termined to land the passengers at tn, first opportunity and they were deter mined, If possible, that this opportunit. should not occur.
 Many of the hotheaded shoremen wen around heavily armed, some with clubs guns, revolvers and other implements o | battle.
 The announcement from Brooklyn that the General Term had handed down decision vacating the injunction restrain ing the State officials from using tn Island fell like a bombshell among tn excited shoremen.
 The more conservative members of tn mob shrugged their shoulders, remarke that that settled the matter and tha there was nothing left for them but t submit, and walked away, but the hot headed element declared that if it was be fight they were ready. and that tn passengers should not land.
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