The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-16
THE WORST YET
Arrival Of the Scandal After q Ter
rible Passage.
THIRTY TWO DEATHS FROM CHOLERA
DIR. jenkins and All New York Alarmed
The Hamburg Company Has Now
Six Vessels Guaranteed
Another to Come.

QUARANTINE, n. ", Sept. 10-At 1:15
o'clock this morning DR.. Jenkins re-
ccived the following from Swinburnc
island over the cable, signed by DR..
Byron:
'Have visited the Scandal, which ar
rived at midnight, and find the total
number OF passengers i~.09S-cabin %,
steerage 9Sl, crew ~. On the voyage
there were thirty-two deaths, Of which
there were twcnty-nine In Storage. one
in cabin and two among the crew. I
am starting in our tug Crystal Water
to transfer seven cases stricken with
Swinburne island"
The Scandal sailed from Hamburg on
August 25 and vas due here yesterday.
II was ~variously reported that she had
about 900 steerage passengers aud IL
has been expected hat she would be
held over with the plague ridden Ham
burg-American steamers.
The worst fears are more than real
lied. No such mortality rs hat which
Capt. koff has been compelled to re-
port has heretofore been recorded dur
ing the present reign of the plague.
The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. company now
has six ships under the ban of the
health officers, viz: The Moravia, Ru-
gia, N~ormannia. Wieland, Stubbenhuk
and the Scandal.
The terrible report certainly justi-
fies the fears of the health officer
and also his great anxiety to provide II
safe refuge for the souls that as yet still
retain health aboard the vessels Mt the
lower roadstcad.
The feelings Of those on the ships
that ave been detained for a week
when they saw the transfer boat speed
to and fro between Swinburnc island
to the Scandal this morning may
better be imagined than described.
The moving tug tells IA story, the hor-
ror of which is increased ten fold be-
cause they cannot know the exact
truth. What the daylight hours this
morning may produce none can tell,
but that the Scandal is all that has
been feared no one will deny.
DR.. Jenkins IA awakened to receive
the news and give il to the few news
paper men about. Others in bed were
soon summoned in haste to send the
grievous tidings to their papers.
Several days since DIR. Jenkins was
presented a cablegram by the agents of
the line stating that another of their
ships, the Bohemia, left Hamburg Au-
gust 81 with $40 Storage passengers,
all having been isolated from five to
eight days and that the steerage and
baggage We're disinfected. In spite of
this telegram the Bohemia will now be
an additional source of anxiety, and it
is safe to say that as she is an old ship
like the Moravia and Scandal, the
health office will not pass her without
the most rigid scrutiny md an extend
ed detention for observation.
DR.. Jenkins was clad only in his
dressing gown when he met the report
ers and the look Of care that shrouded
his face when he said there was moth
ing he could add by way of comment,
showed all too plainly his belief that
the battle had only begun.
Deputy Seguine, who had also retired
for the night, when appraised of the
fact of thirty-two deaths on the
Scandal, exclaimed: "This is q perfect
epidemic and l a%pprehend grave results.
1.-THE Scandal" he said, sis n sister
ship to the Moravia and Rugia now in
lower quarantine and rs her list shows
carries almost wholly steerage passen-
gers"
In his interview with the reporters in
the early evening DIR. Jenkins said in
answer to a question that he expected
no news from the Scandal before morn
ing, and while his general fears regard.
ing this ship have been we'll known
there was nothing in his looks or tone
that gave any inlkling that he antici-
pated news like that which has broken
his nights repose.