New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-01
CHOLERA AT THE GATE.
ARRIVAL OF A PLAGUE SHIP.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS ON The STEAM.
e SHIP MORAVIA.

| IWENII-I DEAF Hc UN lHE SIEAM.
SHIP MORAvIA
A FRIGnTFUL PASSAGE FROM HAMBURG-FOUR
HUNDRED AND SIX PEOPLE STOPPED AT
QUARANTINE AND SENT BACK INTO
THE LOWER BAY-oTHER SHIPS
EXAMINED AND IMMIGRANTS
SCRUBBED.
Cholera has at length been brought to this
port This was what nearly everybody ex-
pected would happen and what many prayed
| might not happen. In the darkness OF Tuesday
| night the immigrant steamship Moravia, OF the
| Hamburg American Line, came up through tne
| Narrows and dropped anchor of the quarantine
| Station under the heights OF Fort Wahsworth'
| Her formal report Of arrival and or her voyage
was sent on and at once telegraphed 10 'his
city. Nothing in the report gave any mhca'ioh
of the true state Of affairs Oh board 30 shc
swung all night at her anchor. and in the early
morning Dr. Talmadge, one OF the Health oI'i-
GERS deputies went on board her Two mlnutes
conversation with the ships doctor caused the
deputy to send the Quarantine tug back to the
shore for Dr. Jenkins. There had been twenty
two deaths from cholera board the MoraVia
on her way from Hamburg and her trip across
the Atlantic had been one Of horror
She left Hamburg on August IS WIN
35s secrage passengers ana ere" Vi
seventy men, all told She carried no CABIN
| passengers The first da ont the trouole pesah'
| Two children died in the dim light of tho
steerage and their bodies were soon thrown over
board. amid the wailing Of their parents and the
| ,,. Il b,, ,bnr
comprehendcd th,t they were shipmates with the
| dread scourgc.
| The next day. August 20. there were seven
| more deaths in the stecrage. and as fast as they
| occurred the bodies were thrown overheard
| Thcse were horrible nights and days for all on
| board There was O large number OF Polish
Hebrews among the passengers. and they ana
their German and French fellow travellers looked
| AZ each other wondering who would be the next
| victim
| The officers and crew Of the vessel still kept
the shin headed westward while death worked
on below decks On April 81 there were only
| two deaths on board, ana only two on the follow
| ing day. Officers and passengers began to take
heart at this but or August % there we're five
deaths One after another they died. and their
| bodies were thrown into the sea. IL seemed that
day ar il the cholera werr gcins 70 make clean
sweep and leave the pest ship hoating tenantless
about the ocean But the next day no deaths
occurred aad q period of three days now elapsed
without q death and all on board tie MoraYa
.clt encouraged again. On August q another
death followed however. and On August rs there
were two. On August % there one death, and
with that record the Moravia came into Quaran-
tine and the rattling Of her anchor chains broke
the stiffness Of the night.
sESr orr INTO THE LOWER BAY.
This WIS the story OF horror told to Dr. Jenkins
when he went on board yesterday morning. IN
response to the simmons OF DR.. Ialmadge. lhe
ship's doctor. Dr. David Israel, called the disease
cholerine but IL was evident from the facts IN
the ease that this was euphemism. or the
dcad. thirteen were Polish Hebrews. one was of
French birth and the rest Germans There were
only two adults among the dead. the others being
Young children In the ships hospital. when
| DIR. Jenkins went on board, two sick
women. and three children were down with the
measles Dr. Jcnl-Ins AT once ordered the
| Morava TO get up her anchor and go down to tlie
Lower Bay She went out through the Narrows
nying a yellow flag, which showed that SHE was
ouarantined and warned all craft to keep away
from her In III, Lower Bay she anchored on
Hoffman Island
when ,b, pest ship had steamed out into the
Z.
consultation with his deputies The eNigcncy fr
which the Quarantine officials had been 50 long
pr-parno had arisen There were many people
on The shore AT Quarantine when the Moraya
went out with her yellow flag flying and the
rumor gradually spread among them that cholera
had arrived Sci lom has q more sorrowful ship
com. in ar rone ont through the Narrows than the
| Noravia. Her officers and crew and the surVi-
vors OF her passengers must fight out the grim
! battle with cholera in sight Of Il shore they may
not tread for the quarantiniIG OF the plague
stricken vessel may he for long time Inc
news Of the arrival Of the Moravla and the choera
reached the city about o'clock AMI quickly
snrcad To the Hamburg American Office the
news was particularly unwelcome Two days oe-
lore the directors had given orders to suspend All
traffic between this port ana Hamburg ny 'hc
boats. and here was the Moravla win her story VI
death and pestilence. A. far as was known all III"
usual and unusual precautions had been 'akcil
in her case at Hamburg. Her passengers h''
hoe, examined and their baggage fumigatcd be-
fore they were allowed to go on board lherc was
no means of communicating with the vessel now
ever. even her ships papers being held Tor iuini-
CATION.
Emil A. Boas, general passenger agent OF tho
line. said: 1T is most unfortunate In spite oi
every precaution which have taken, here
we are with plague-ship on our hands. Know
nothing about the particulars of the case, for the
shin is entirely shut of from all commuhca-
ton even with us. | suppose the captain mas
the usual consular certificate, saying that the ldS-
senpers were in good health when they went on
board. and q clean bill of health from the port
authorities We had determined that our hh'
should not bring che cholera to tins port Dut
human precautions do not seem to have aValled
mucb Bv Tomorrow we shsll probably have
something definite about the matter, bnt to-day
7 only know what the general public knows
LIST OF THE VICTIMS.
The list of those who died on board the
Morayia. with their ages and nationallties, ana
the dates on which they died, Is as follows:
I,...L LLL..lN annd