The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-18
PANIC IN VANCOUVER.
Smallpox Raging in the Very
Heart Of the City.
THE DISEASE GAME FROM ASIA.
women In DisreputabIe Houses Ar
Observation-Disclosures District Closely
Guaranteed by the Police.

VANCOUVER, B. c., May 7.-TSpeciai.1-
quarantine Dupont street Swear in all
the omcers necessary for enforcement Of
strict segregation. This was the message
received by telephone by Chief of Police
McLaren from Mayor Cope at $50 O'Clock
TINS evening. The work was at once COM
menced. Dupont street, from Carroll to
Columbia avenue, is known as Chinatown;
rom Columbia avenue to Westminster
avenue 1t IS lined or both sides with bag
MOS, and in two of these it had been
found necessary to put up the yellow card
with the ominous legend Smallpox"
In an hour or so the restraint began
10 be felt, and brushes with the
police became frequent One special
policeman named Thomas was set upon,
knocked down and roughly used by men
determined to enter the street at all haz-
ards. Medical Health Officer McWicken
went down on the street and vaccinated all
the women. He was accompanied by the
chief of police, and from every house ran
crowds of frightened men, many of them
prominent citizens.
At one time nearly $50 men gathered at
the foot of the street and soon Cinnamon
swelled the crowd to double that number.
Officer North. who had been put on in
place of the used up special, Thomas. was
firm, and his GOODNESS, assisted by Hip
Tuck Lung, a millionaire Chinese tyee, re-
stored order. The officer also arrested
ringleader in the riot. From that on
till this time Of writing knots of men have
been turned off every few moments by the
officers. Trouble is feared later on, when,
infiamed by whisky, the regular habitues
of the street insist upon passing in. but to
meet this an enlarged force of specials is
now being mustered.
The city is intensely excited over the
discovery Of smallpox. The first word
came from Howe sound, a settlement O
few miles from thed city. The Empress of
Japan was quorantined on the last voyage
because of smallpox on board. Mr..
Livingstone. saloon passenger for New
York, was found to have the disease, and
was kept at the quarantine station at AL
bert head till cured. The vessel was sent
out after couple of delays. J. Hyde was
watohman here on the vessel. He went
to Howe Sound, and last night word came
that he had smallpox. Medical Health
Officer McWicken chartered steamer and
went up at once, finding the case well
developed. Hyde had been taken into
C. G. Gibson's house, and the doctor vac
cinated six members of the family. Con-
gratulations that Hyde had left the city
stopped on finding that his companions
who had lived with him had the disease
in small house just behind the city hall
and Jail. His house was at once
quarantinsd and yellow flag hoisted.
Then Upper Thompson, living in Boul-
der hotel. just at the corner of Cordova
and Carroll, the principal streets, had it.
Special police were at once put on there.
Then the women in two fashionable
bagnios on Dupont street were found to
have it. and guards were put on there. A
local paper wisely warned the citizens this
evening, and vaccination is being generally
done. 1t will be made compulsory in the
schools tomorrow. The next vessel will be
strictly enamined. The greatest praise is
being accorded to Medical Health Officer
McWicken, Health Inspector Hunter and
Mayor Cope for the prompt measures
taken.