The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-04
Another of the Moravia's Passengers
Stricken with the Dread Pest.
Hamburg Line officers Besieged by Friends Of
Those on the Detained Vesscls-Instruc-
tions of Washington officials.


MORE PEST-LADEN SHIPS.
The Normannia and Rugia Arrive with
Cholerine Cases on Board.
NEW YORK, Sept. S.-NothinQ can now
save the metropolis from a great plague
but absolute compliance on the part of
every member of the community, with the
instructions of the Board of Health and
the quarantine authorities. The danger is
real. 1t cannot be overestimated.
Two newIy-infected steamships arrived
in this harbor to-day, with awful stories
of death and suffering. They were
the Rugia and Normannia, both
from Hamburg. The Rugia buried five
steerage passenger at sea, and had five liv-
ing cholera patients still on board when
she cast anchor. The Normannia buried
four steerage passengers and one cabin pas
senger She had four patients still alive.
one being q member of the crew. 1t is
claimed that the cabin passenger who died
on the Normannia was suffering from dia-
betes only. The deaths on the Normannia,
the cases in all but one being given as
cholerine. were:
HEGERT. CARL. second cabin. aged fifty
HEGEMENN, JACOB, first cabin, aged forty
five, died Sept. /. The ships surgeon admits
that the patient had diarrhea.
HARME, OTILIE, aged eleven months. died
HARME, WILLIE, aged three years, died
soHoLTz. ADoLPH. aged one year, died
Sept 2.
The cholerine convalescents were as fol
lows:
HEIsER. HEINRICH FRANK, one of the crew.
aged thirty-rin years
HEINRICH, RUDULPH, aged eleven months.
HARME, SELMA. aged five years.
BoNHEIsER, MORRIS. aged hfty-nin years.
On board the Rugia the following deaths
occurred. all from cholerine:
KOENIG. BERTHA, aged thirty nine, Bel
grade died Aug. 2S.
KoENIG, OARL. aged thirty-nine, Belgrade;
died Aug. %.
The two above were presumably man and
wife.
sTERR, ROSIE, aged thirty, Vienna; died
sTERR, EDWARD, aged thirty. Vienna; died
Sept 1.
The cholerine convalescents or the Rugia
were as follows:
POGAsKI, ELEM. aged twenty-seven, Poland
KOENIG, PAUL, aged eight, Belgrade.
BUST. JOHANNA aged fifty-four. Mecklenburg.
PETERS, AURIEN, aged sixty-two, schleswig.
DIsPALo, KosMIo, aged thirty-four Italy.
All the dead had been buried at sea. The
convalescent cases are considered very SER
ious. and further deaths are likely to occur.
Health Officer Jenkinsimmediately ordered
both ships 70 the lower bay as soon as the
captains of the vessels had notified him of
the condition of affairs.
THE NORMANNIA's FATEFUL VOYAGE.
The Normannia sailed from Hamburg on
Aug. &c, and touched at Southampton on
her way to this port. She carried 266 first
class and 262 second-class passengers Her
steerage paseen gers were 4S2 In number.
The first death on board the Nnrmannia oc-
CURED on Aug. %. Carl Hegert, q second
class passenger, had been taken
down with q disease which the
ships physician diagnosed as cholerine.
Another case was discovered about the
same time in the steerage in the person OF
Otllie Harm, a child eleven months of age.
The cholera symptoms developed rapidly
in both cases, and left no doubt in the
mind OF the ships surgeon as to tho nature
of the disease. When Hegerrs death.
on Aug. 29, was followed by the death
of the other patient. the child in
the steerage. on Aug. 90, the authorities
of the ship recognized the serious condi-
tIons of affairs. They at once took all
possible precautions to prevent the dis.
ease from spreading among the other pas
sengers on board the vessel. Notwith-
standing their efforts several other cases
of like nature were discovered. The sur
Geon took radical measures. He carefully
isolated all the patients, and personally
saw that the utmost care was exercised by
the persons engaged in nursing them to
avoid communicating the disease to others.
There was great alarm among the pas
sengers when they learned that the dread
disease had appeared on board the vessel.
The captain did his best to allay the fears
of the cabin passengers by assuring them
that every effort would be made TO keep
the. the d,sease ,ss. from spreading: and
in their power 10 bring about that
result. Then he turned his attention
to the steerage. where the greatest danger
OF the disease spreading was apprehended.
number of the passengers were com
pletely panic stricken upon learning that
cholera had appeared among them. They
lost their heads entirely. and appeared to
be incapable OF helping themselves in the
slightest respect. The captain and the
surgeon ordered n strict watch TO be kept
over the stcerage passengers TO prevent
them catching the disease. In spite of all