Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-09-05
NO ClIOl LNA X NEW YORK
FRESH CHOLERA CAEI:a ON
DETAINED sTEAMENs
The Passengers In Grcu: Distress
No Outbreak Ofthe Disease at
New POiHtS-PrO%ress of the
SCOurg.. In the O.d World.

NNO SAhA OH tAV DhSCttSN ht
New P"iHts-PrOgress of the
ScOurg-e In the O:d World
New YORK, Sept. 5.-The state of af-
fairs in New York, 50 far as the threat
cned visitation Of cholera is concerned, is
as follows:
There is no scare feeling i'll this city, in
spite of the additional dcath hs from chol-
era on board the steamships detained at
quarantine. The Health Board repre-
scntativcs, the health authorities and the
quarantine officials are working night
and day against any spread of the
sc"urgc to this city. The public at large,
while admitting that the situation is
serious, is going about its business : S
usual.
DIs!n!crtants are having large sale
and the people are cleaning their houses
and looking to their drainage with more
than usual care. This is done simply as
A matter OF prccaution.
The weather for the several days past
has been dlljghttully bracing, and this
has great influence in calming the pub
lie mind and in leading everybody to
hope that the cholera cloud will not
hover over New York bay for any great
length of time.
The quarantine officials were greatly
relieved to find that there was not
pest ship among the steamers arriving
at this port yesterday. These officials
arc over cXcitcd.and .overworked as, it is,
any further strain.EuponsL.them would
have hindercd their usefulness to a con-
siderable degree.
There is no doubt that the passengers
detained on board the so-called pest
ships" are considerably alarmed and
they are in a decidedly unenviable posi-
ton, but the clear cool weather. the
bright sunshine and the attention paid
to them by the ships officers and the
health authorities of the port go far
to make their lot less hard to bear
Eyeryd rop of water used on board the
detained steamers is boiled before be-
ing used Only hot food is partaken Of
and disintectants are freely sprinkled
about the steamers. Thus danger of a
spread OF the disease on board of any of
the quarantine boats is very small.
The panic among the steerage passen-
gers of the Normania yesterday as de-
scribed by an eye witness w as something
trightful. They cried out against being
confined in pest ship, and the ladies on
board of the vessel were in state of
J terror. Their fears was relieved to
certain extent, however, by their re-
moval to Hoffman Island. The commits
sioncrs described the terror prevailing
amonr the passengers as OF heart-rend.
ing character. There were some doubts
among the cabin passengers as to the
presence of the dread disease on board
of the steamer, but the deaths and new
cases which occurred yesterday brought
terror to the bravest hearts on board of
the infected vessel.
QUARANTINE, n. Y, Sept. 1.-THE sit
uatioa at quarantine, as far as any in-
formation has been obtained, is practi-
cally unchanged since DR.. Jenkins re-
turned from the Islands last night and
reported two additional deaths on the
Normannia, one on the Rugia and one
on the Moravia.
DR.. jenkins has sent request to
Mayor Grant for six patrol officers who
will be stationed at quarantine and ar
rest any person or persons endeavoring
to communicate with vessels on the
lower bay All the passengers in the
Stceragc on the Normannia have been
transferred to Hoffman Island where
they will remain under observation. Six
cases of cholera were transferred to the
hospital on Swinbourne Island. This
leaves the Normanna with no sick on
board aud with no Stccrage passengers.
The MOravia has no sick, but has her
cabin and stccraSc passengers on board.
NO fresh cases are likely to break out on
the Normannia now that her emf.
grants have been removed aud that their
quarters have been thoroughly fumi
gated. S.ceragc passengers on Hoffman
Island are of course liable to develop the
disease, but they will at once be trans,
terrcd to the hospital at Swinburne
Island il taken sick.
QUARANTINE, y. Y, Sept. 5.-The tug
State of New York has gone to Clifton
to embark Secretary Foster and the
States Board OF Health, and take then
down to the Islands to make inquiries
into the States quarantine arrange
ments. Mr.. Foster will be accompanied
by Surgeon-Gcneral Hamilton, late chic
of Marine hospital service, who tool
charge of the quarantining arrange
ments againt Florida during the yellow
fever epidemic in Jacksonville Fla, il
1883.
. LONDON, Sept. 5.-Thc steamer Elbe
from Hamburg, arrived in Tyne las
evening, with one of her officers dowl
r with the cholera. He was removed t.
: floating hospital that has been pro
p vided for cholera patients, where he die
this morning. The steamer has bee
placed in quarantine.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 5.-There wer
reported throughout Russia Frida
, 3 Sl2 new cases of cholera anG 1,79
! deaths. These figures include only pa