St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-11
FIGHTING The PEST.
Review Of the Battle in New
York Harbor With the
Plague.
Eoravia Now Thought to Be
Free From the Dread
Disease.
Passengers of the Norman
MIA Released From Their
Awful Situation.
Fire Island Purchased by
New York for a Quaran-
tine Station.

QUARANTINE. Sept. 10. - Tuesday,
Aug. so, 1892. will be marked day in
the American calendar. At 10 %. IN. on
that day the Moravia arrived with chol
era on board. Although there had been
numerous deaths. her captain reported
"All WE'LL" and from 10 p. IN. OIL Tues
day, the time of her arrival, until 10 the
following morning she laid at her an
ch0r at upper quarantine, inno-
cent looking and 10 all appearances
perfectly harmless. When Health Officer
jenkins boarded her the stereotyped
'all we'll" was given, but when he
asked if there mad been any deaths he
was thunderStruck at hearing the ap-
paIling number of twenty-five. This
was enough TO Startle any man, medical
Or otherwise, and the ship surgeons re-
ply to the question as to what disease
they had died of made DR.. Jenkins
more than suspicious. 'Cholerine"
was given as the cause of death, and bit
by bit the story of
The Voyage of Death
was told. She left Hamburg Aug. II
with all well. On the 10Th, after being
two days out, Margaret Daiienbeck. a
baby passenger in the Steerage, was
taken i'll and died in a few hoars. The
cholerne symptoms, as described by the
doctor, were very similar to those of
cholera ASiatic, as the disease is known
to the medical fraternity. The same
day another baby of eleven months was
taken i'll and died. Seven children be-
tween the ages of eleven and two, who
had played and rOmped with the dead,
were seized, and died in a few hours.
On the 22d two more, and on the 23d the
same number, but one of them was
thirty years of age.
The 23d saw another growth in the
number as four children and one grown
person Joined the army Of the lost. For
the four following days there were no
fresh cases, and the passengers began
tobreathe more freely. but again ii broke
out, and on the 27th one died. Oh the
2Sth one died, and on the 29h, or one
uay before she anchored in New York
larbor, four more victims had been
Claimed by Pestiience
During the thirteen days of her voy.
age twenty little ones and two adults
Or twenty-five of her emigrants, had
died of cholerine. DR.. Jenkins thought
best that the Moravia should go to
quarantine, which she did Immediate y,
where her two cOnvalescent passengers
were taken care of and her other en-
igrantS taken ashore, washed, fumi-
gated and returned to the ship. This
was on the last day of August, and
Thursday all passengers were we'll and
1t was three days since the last case had
occurred. Friday, Sept. 9, was also a
good day,and DR.. Jenkins looked cheer
full as he announced that there were no
new cases, and that the two GONZALES
cents were doing we'll. On the evening
Of Friday, Sept. ,, Doctors jenkins and
Talmadge, the deputy health officer,
made trip down the bay, remaining
absent all night and not returning until
the early hours next morning. Before
leaving DR.. Jenkins had left orders
with the boarding officers to order any
vessel arriving from Uayre or Ham
burg
To Be Turned Back
to lower quarantine at once. The first
vessel to arrive was the StuDbenhuk.
with her 25S passengers. AS she re-
ported from Hamburg she was sent
back to lower quarantine. AS dav was
breaking the Hamburg-American steam
er Rugia came up and dropped anchor
shortly afterward.
The magnificent express steamer Nor
MAMMA, with 495 cabin passengers and
552 emigrantS. belonging to the same
line of steamers, also dropped an
chOr opposite the quarantine sta
tion. At about $50 the doctor ar
rived up the bay and visited the
Rugia and then the Normannia. Whilst
he was visiting the latter, the Rugia
slowly steamed down the harbor toward
lower quarantine. In few minutes the
doctor had landed, and once again the
APPALLING statement was made, Cholera,
and on both ships" Yesl the magnifi-
cent Normannia, and the old-time
Rugia. both had cholera on board. On
board the Rugia there were reported
four deaths and five cases still on board.
There may have been some little doubt
in the minds Of some as to whether the
sickness OF board the Moravia
Was True Cholera,
the nOn-bellever in the cholera theory
stating that cholera was never known
to discriminate between young and old,
and that nearly ali deaths on board the
first cholera ships were children or ba-
bieS. Whether it was cholera or not
mattered little now; the Normannia had
it on board and so lad the Rugla, The
first case aboard the last named de-
veloped within five days of her depart
ure from Havre, and seven days after
she had left Hamburg. On board the
Normannia the fist case occurred on
Aug. %, or two days after she had left
Southampton. and three after having
left Han burg.
The dead Oil the Rugia were all in the
Steerage, but OH board the Normannia
the lost included two cabin passengers,
Jacob HynemaD in the first, and Carl
Eegerty in the second saloon. 1t was
afterward stated that Hyneman's death
was due to Diabetes, and not cholera
Another important point worthy of no
tice was the length of time that the dis
ease fingered on board the Rugia before
being developed. Seven days after
leaving Hamburg she was still free,
and, to the ordinary thinker, would
have remained SO. Nothing, however
is more deceitfui than
"A GerHlinal Disease,
ani cz1 the 2Sth cholera had broken out
New York now had three vessels with
cholera on board anchored at lower
quarantine, but one was considered t(
have rid itself of the pest. The Mora
via had not had case for four days
and things looked brighter in that di-
rection. Late shat night DIR. Jenkin:
paid another visit to tlIe new arrivals
and found things much worse e-tw(
more deaths on the Normannia and one
Oh the Rugia was the report, and. still
the Morayia was free. DR.. Jenkln.
thinks that it is successfully stamped
out in that direction.
Ii the Moravia Tas clear neither til,