New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-04
THE WORK AT QUARANTINE.
HOW THE SHIPS WERE RECEIVED BY THE
HEALTH OFFICERS.
FULL LIST OF THE DEAD AND THE sIcK-THE
CABIN PASSENGERS on THE NoRMAyYIA-
APPALLING TALES or THE VOYAGE
THE NoRMANNIA CAME TO UPPER
QUARANTINE BEFORE STOPPING
OTHER SHIPS Detained.

OTHER SHIPS Detained.
The steamships RuGia and Normannia Of the
Hamburg American Line arrived here yesterday
each with cholera on board and reporting dca'"
among the passengers on the voyage over. -Four
passengers died on the Ruga and hve on the
Normannia Besides. four passengers on the
Normannia and five on the other steamer were
sick with the dread disease when Quarantine was
reached.
The Rnria ono Of ,hc older boats Of the linc'
sailed from Hamburg on August 81, stopping Il.
Uavre two days later. Sic was IN command "i
Captain Leithauscr and carried n nnihOr oi
immigrants The operator sighted her on SANDY
Hook shortly after midnight. Word was al once
telcgraphcd to Quarantine. and Health onlc"r
renkins and his assistants Immediately steamed
down the bay in tug 10 head her on >he WIS
encountered in the Narr0ws al o'clock.
.As soon as the tug came near the big ship Dr.
Jenkins shouted 10 the man IN command to STOP
and 90 back To the Lower Bay. lie ins'r"c-
,;or. were not understood AZ first and the Rugia
swept ND toward Quarantine. Finally. tn"
Health Officers meaning made out. ana the
vessel turned and steamed down the bay, The
tuc leading the way When DR.. jenkins rcnch"d
a point abou, half mile south of Swinburne
Island. not far from the Moravia. he told the
Rupia's officer TO anchor thcre. his was done
1uE XoKuNNNIA DIeREG,EDs THE SIGNAL.
, The Normannia. which is Il comparatively new
boat. and one of the express steamers OF inc
line. sailed from Hamburg on Friday. August 20
and from Southampton the next day. one
almost overlook the Rugia. The Nornahhla
steamed UP the bag past the Rugii soon ai'e'
she cane 10 anchor The Quarantine lug along
side the Rueia footed as signal for the big eN-
p,css steamer TO stop, but the Normannia kept
ON She came 10 anchor at Upper Quarantine
A. ,.40 o'clock Ia a short time DR.. 1allmadge
| assistant 70 the Health Officer, came out TO her
on a tug and ordered her to go back to th'
Lower Bay. The big anchor was weighed anu
the ship returned TO spot near the ku@ia anu
Moravia There she boarded by the hcai'h
officers.
| 10th ships had tale Of sickness and death ID
toll Cholera made It's dread appc1ranc" on the
pucio IN August % the ships doctor mid. The
first person to he attacked was Aaron Peters, a
s,eerage passenger, siXty-ninc years old. lie dld
not die. however On August %, Sunday. oc-
Cured the first deaths Tie victims were Btrtha
IIoenig. thirty-nine years old, and her son oari'
eleven wears old Several new cases were dcNel-
opcd on the following Wednesday, when RoNih'
Sterr, "a baby, died. Edward Sterr, thirty years
old died tie following day The Others WHO
became i'll were Helene Baynoshi. Paul llemig
John Bnss and Rosna Desplai. The dead were
buried at sea.
STORY OF TIE NoRMANNIA's SURGEON
| The Normanna's physician told similar story
Two days after the dcpartuTe from Hamburg 'he
disease broke out in the second cabin. Carr
Ilegcrt. ffty-seven years old, was the first TO
show the awful symptoms and death came upon
him on Tuesday. The same day cholera showed
| its hand In the steeragc By the death of Ottllle
Storm. eleven months old The following day
occurred the death of Jacob IIcineman II iirstcabn
passeueer The ships physician said that he
| died from diabetes, bat he admitted the pres
ence of so many indications of cholera that Dr.
Jenkins WAS convinced he died from that and
| from no other sickness.
Then the scourgc again appeared in the steer
AGE. On Thursday, September |, William Storm.
| three wears old, and the brother Of the baby who
had died on Tuesday, was also dead, and Adolph
Sobatz one year old, died in the stceragc the
next day and his body was thrown overheard
The sick brought by tic Normannia were Helm
rich Farke Rudolph IIormsh, Selma Heen and
Marie l}oncshi all stecragc passengers.
third vessel from Hamburg loaded with i'm
migrants arrived at the bar at 80 o'clock
Yesterday morning. She was the Stubncnhuk'
Captain Rehse. which left Hamburg August q
with 232 stccrage passengers. She made the
trip to this port directly. Her captain reported
that there had been illness or death on the
voyage, but DR.. Jenkins ordered him to
anchor in the Lower BAY near the plague
ships Captain Rehse complied with the order.
CABIN PASSENGERS on THE NoRMANNIA.
! The Norman mia had an exceedingly large pas
.enger list. Is Americans In Germany were nAtur-