The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-09-13
THE INFURIATED MOB.
WILL RESIST LANDING OF PEST.
LADENED SHIPS-CONFEREN
OF JUDGES.
Ex-prOprietOr of Hotel Retires With
Body Guard-Tries But Fails to
Effect Landing.

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By Telegraph to the State Chronicle
BABYLON, L. J., Sept. 12.-This vii
lage is in a state of the widest confusion.
Angry men are at every corner uttering
deep threats against the proposed inva-
sion from the cholera laden Normannia
and Rugia. 1t is quite evident that the
residents are determined to prevent by
extreme measures the landing of the
steamboat Cepheus. This morning Judge
Wilmot M. Smith left for Brooklyn to ap-
ply to Judge Bernard, of the Supreme
court, for an injunssion restraining the
passengers from landing. Ex proprietor
Sammis, of the Surf Hotel, left for New
York on the s o'clock train and had to
be escorted to the railroad depot by a
body guard, the mob being determined
to make an example of him for disposing
of his property. Almost everybody in
the village is armed and will resist any
invasion. Justice of the peace James B.
Cooper says that the hotel and all its sur
roundings will be burned to the ground if
landing is attempted.
FIRE ISLAND, Sept. 12.--When the
Cepheus arrived at the dock here great
crowd had assembled, but no one in the
throug would take the lines of the boat
| and aid in fastening her to the dock.
The crew of the Cepheus, enraged at
this refusal, turned the boats hose on
| the crowd and gave them drenching G.
| The steamboat could not make q landing
and was finally compelled to anchor in
the channel opposite the Surf Hotel.
Two attempts we're made to tie up at the
dock, but each one proved unsuccessful.
FIRE ISLAND, N. Y, Sept. 12.-The
people here appear to have lost all sense
of humanity. They have been appealed
to in the name of God to permit the old
est women and youngest children to bt
taken to the hotel for the night that theil
lives might be saved and have refused
with brutal jeer. EventJ since night-fal
displayed a degree of cruelty we'll nigf
inconceivable. After the Cepheus came
to anchor two police officers rowed to th,
landing aud asked that letter be takel
to DR.. Wright. The mob refused to ALLOW
letter to come ashore and drove tn
police officers off with threats. AS i
was getting dark and no satisfactory an
swer had arrived from the first boat,
second boat put off from the steamer
rowed by two police. In the stern stoot
a tall gray haired man, Robert Thomp
son: As he approached the mob gath
cred threateningly. He asked to b.
heard in behalf of the two hn~a~"a MO
nen aud children on she steamer, VIII
were suffering from hunger, exposure an
/ exhaustion. After several minutes of in
sulting retorts by the mob, he was al
; lowed to speak. He said the men on tn
steamer did not ask to land. The youn
women would remain if necessary, br
7 the old women, some of them gran6
} mothers, and the children suffering, nj
for comforts, but for decent care, shoul
, be allowed to land. They would be r.
turned to the steamer after a nights re
and one meal. On shore were mutterir
threats and swearing that the people {
! the excursion vessel could rot befo
they would be allowed to land.