The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-14
Gov. Flower Calls Out Naval Re-
serve and Awes Mob.
THE LANDING NOT RESISTED.
Unfortunate Passengers Spend a
Wretched Night Afioat.
1ns Brutal Inhabitants OF Islip and
Their Leaders Vigorously Condemned
The Government Refuses to Conn
promise With Lawiessness.

| NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-The evening of
this day, which started with anxiety.
troubles and alarming rumors of hkely
fights and bloodshed. has concluded with
everything calm. The passengers of the
! Normannia have landed and the Pc, asus
Is safely under Sandy Hook with the naval
reserve on board. There are no new cases
| OF cholera on board the steamer nor the
Islands. and the only present worry of
Health Officer Jenkins is his summons to
| appear before the supreme court in Brook
iyn and Judge Barnard TO show cause by
| what right he detains the cabin passengers
| OF the Normannia on Fire island:
by what right he, as health otfi-
| Ger OF the port of New York, detained
| then when they were out of his jurisdic-
tioh In the state of New Jersey, on board
| the Stonington or on the Cepheus, lying in
| the waters Of Suffolk county; by what
right he placed them on an unseaworthy
vessel like the Stonington, and sent them
70 sea on the Cepheus without proper ac-
commodations or provisions, and in a ves-
sci unit and unsafe for that purpose.
The cabin passengers of the steamer La
Champagne have left on their way from
| quarantine to this city.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-It was rumored
around the health department this after
noon that two cases of cholera had been
discovered in the city, but Health Com.
missioner Bryant stoutly denied the truth
| Oh the report He stated that two or three
suspected cases Of cholera had been re-
ported, and they are now being investi-
| gated, Chief Inspector Roberts, of the
health board, said he had under lnvestiga-
ton some suspected cases, but he did not
think they were cholera. The governor
reconsidered his intention of calling out
the Fourteenth and Forty-seventh Brook
Iyn regiments, but sent the Thirteenth
Brooklyn instead. The chamber of COM
merce committee advise that fund of
S25O.OOO be placed at its disposal, and SUBJ
scrlptions are now being received. Visitors
to Gov. Flowers room in the Windsor this
afternoon suggested to him that his order
ing out the troops might lose him some
votes on Long island. He replied: 81
don't care damn for votes, but l am 60
ing to put down lawbreakers and put the
state in possession of it,. property"
The Cepheus, with her cargo of helpless
women and delicate children, remained
anchored In the channel off Fire island
all night. Their sufferings during the
night are described as having been most
intense. The men paced the DECKS all
! night or reclined upon the bare decks for
few hours of restless sleep. while the
women and children were huddled to-
gether, crying and praying, in the warm
est corners to be found. 1t was only after
the most earnest entreaty that the bay
men on shore permitted some food to be
sent to the half-famished passengers. The
ala !, tal
| ages, as Fire island, on which it is decided
| to land the unfortunate people, is situated
tive miles by water from their settlements.
The cabin passengers on the steamship
Rugia have addressed letter to DR..
Jenkins protesting against their detention
on the steamer with steerage passengers.
no effort having been made by The health
officers for the removal of the latter.
| Another letter to Dr. jenkins, signed by
| forty-four lady passengers on the Rugia.
stated that they desired to emphasize the
| general protest. They said:
| Six of us have families of little children
| aboard with us, and see with painful appre-
hension the little ones in the stcerage suddenly
stricken down. We are in alarming proximity
| to the awful disease, and we ask In the name of
| humanity, why should this perilous exposure
be continued for single day? In the name OF
| God, we demand immediate succor.
The proceedings of the bay men in re-
sisting the landing of passengers on Fire
! island is condemned on all sides.
The Sixty-ninth regiment and the naval
| reserve battalion embarked Oh the steam
| boat Pegasus for Fire island at II O'Clock
| this morning and the Fourteenth and
| Forty seventh regiments left for the same
place by the Long Island railroad at 8
| O'Clock this morning.
The general term of the supreme court of
Kings county has. vacated the temporary
| injunction restraining Gov. Flower aud
Health Officer Jenkins from taking posses
| sion of Fire island as quarantine station.
When DR.. jenkins, on board the steamer
J Ripple, reached the side of the Cepheus
! and announced who he was, hundred
| passengers, including women, crowded
| along the rail. shouting: you scoundrel,
| you ruffan. all this is your doingl' After
| 1t had Quilted down the doctor read a tele-
| gram from Gov. Flower saying the troops
| would see that there was no interference
| with the landing Of passengers at Fire
| island. The first Normannia passengers
were landed at $3.50 this afternoon.
| An official bulletin reports the sick in
| the hospital yesterday as II; suspected,
| 66; deaths, 1 convalescent. II. In addi-
| ton two deaths occurred on board of the
| Wyoming. one that of child, due to
| bronchitis, and the other due TO an un-
| known disease.
| There were no new cases of cholera yes
| terday at quarantine, and it IS hoped that
| the plague has been stamped out. Work
at Camp Low, Sandy Hook, is proceeding.
| 1t is hoped that it will be COM
| pleted in q day or two at the out
! side. The steamer Alier, from Bre-
men, has been released from quarantine.
| The steamer Diadem, Of the Netherland
| line, arrived this morning with thirteen
cabin and 2i3 steerage passengers. and
| was cleared. The Italian steamer Plata,
| from the Mediterranean. was also cleared
| with nine cabin and ZIG steerage passengers
| aboard of her. The passengers on La
| Champagne and BelgenIand, who were de-
tanned at quarantine on account of sus-
! pected cases. were transferred this after
| noon and sent to the city. The steamers
| will be detained at quarantine The
| steamers Neptune. Jamaica, Kingfrod,
| Baricoa, Brooklyn and City of Swansea
| were also cleared.
FrRE ISLAND, ". Y, Sept. l3-From all
| indications the bay mems little war is over
Davis s. s. Samis, late proprietor of the
| hotel. said the trouble was tempes, in q
| teapot. Some OF the bay men. excite by
| people who had political measures to
serve, became impressed, more or less,