Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-15
CHOLERAUP TO DATE
Steamer Scandal in a Startling
Condition Two More
Deaths.
Governor Flower Authorizes the
Purchase of Fire
Island.


| New York, Sept. 10.-After a thorough
! course of fumigation and diSinfectiOn.
| and after every person was put in such
a condition that it is practically impOs-
sible for them to convey cOntagion TO
| the city, three steamers were released
! from quarantine this afternoon. They
were the Brittanic from LiverpoOl;the
Joseph John, from Hamburg and the
! Zaandam, from Antwerp.
| The immigration agents in this city,
| whose business it is TO forward new
arrivals at this port to their various
| destinations, are much disturbed over
| the announcement made by the Illinois
state board of health refusing admis-
, sion of all immigrants into the state
! unless they bear certificates from the
| health and Immigration officials of the
! port of New York that they are free
| from disease and their baggage and be-
! longings thoroughly disinfected. The
! board of health issued the following
! bulletin this afternoon:
! NO cases of cholera in the city to-
day The number of deaths for the
week ending at noon today were 731,
| against III in the corresponding week
of last year. The deaths from diarrhOe-
al diseases numbered 90, which is less
than in any corresponding week since
1870, although the population of the
| city has doubled since. There We're
!
or small pox. The health Of the city is
unusually good in every particular"
The steamships which left for Europe
| today all sailed with very small lists of
cabin and steerage passengers.
Steerage Passage stopped.
London, Sept. 1O.-The Hamburg
American Packet Co. telegraphed to
an agent of the Associated Press in
| this city declaring that the company
had entirely stopped the st4erage pas
senger business. The steamers DO
hemia, which sailed from Hamburg
! September LIST, and BOleIia, which
sailed from the same port Sept. 6. are
the only vessels of the company low
Oh the way to the United States with
| steerdSe Passengers.
VIII Bny Fire Island,
Syracuse, n. Y, Sept. 1O.-Goyernor
Flower today authorized Health Officer
! jenkins to agee to the terms of David
! S. Samis, owner Of Fire Island, Which
the health officer wishes to purchase
| for quarantine station.
Samis demands $4,000 before the
| passengers are landed and q 100000
guarantee to be paid within six months.
MISUNDERSTANDING Com ,Criised.s
New YORK, Sept. 10,-With warn
! ing that two weeks experience
| brought, the health officers and people
! of New York have again permitted the
Hamburg American Packet company
to bring into their midst for the fifth
time another ship freighted with the
cholera. Yet no steps have been taken
to prevent this criminal corporation
from menacing with death mill
ions Of people and threatening
! destruction to commerce as
it wills. In some countries the fire.
brand would have been applied to the
company S entire feet of ships, almost
every one Of which has come to this
port within the last ten days with
cholera aboard. If justice were meted
out on the Homeric principle, the
4, officers and managers of such
an institution as the Ham.
burg-American Steamship company
would have paid with their own
lives for every life sacrificed by stheir
criminal disregard for the health of
other people. Yet every one of the
managers is still enjoying good health,
assuring the people of the United
States, as one did yesterday, that the
company is doing all it can to prevent
the disease from spreading, presuma-
bly, by bringing more of it here, and
five of the company's ships swing in
the tide at the entrance to the harbor
as lightly as any pleasure craft.
Next week the company is going TO
steer another vessel into port from
plague stricken Hamburg to join the
others. It will, of course, have cholera
on board, but the United States and
State of New York governments will
receive it with open arms, spending
enormous sums of money to care for
the steamship company's passengers
and treating its officials with tender
ness that is eXasperating, instead of
compelling it and them at the mouth
of cannon to turn its prov in the d.
rection whence it came and return to
Hamburg.
The Scandal, the fifth and latest
Hamburg American
Packet line to reach here since the
cholera outbreak in Hamburg. came
into port late last night with a rec
ord of thirty-two deaths during the
voyage and seven sufferers then on
board. This morning two more
! deaths occurred on board, and four
more victims were stricken down.
+! The eleven victims are now in the
! hospital on Swinburne Island, with
little prospect, so the doctors say, of
ever leaving there alive. The Scan
! dia is at anchor in the lower bay, well
! below the hospital islands, and well
apart from the five other vessels de-
| tanned there.
TRACING ITS ORIGIN.
Important Researches to Trace the Basis