New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-09
CHOLERA NOT CHECKED YET.
NEW CASES DOWN THE BAY
FOUR VICTIMS DIE AND TEN OTHERS AXE
STRICKEN DOWN
CLEAN VESSELS SECURED FOR THE CAbiN
PASSENGERS OF THE NoRMANNIA AND
RUGIA- SEVERAL SHIPS RELEASED
FROM QUARANTINE AND THEIR
PASSENGERS LANDED.

FROM QUARANTINE hND INN"
PASSENGERS LANDED.
Cholera continued its work In the Lower Day
Yesterday. Four deaths took place on o"ih''' -"
Island six new cases developed among the ere" Vi
the Normanna. three among the steeraGe paSSe"-
gers of the Rugia and one among the steeraee poe
scngers of the Normanna on Hoffman islahu' ~
was not cheering days record. Inc resource "
medical science and the rigid application oi ny
gienc measures do not seem able to stop the sP'e"
of the disease among imprisoned ships and on the
hospital islands. One good piece OF news Is re-
corded. however, the securing of vessels on when
the cabin passengers of the NOrmannia and Rusia
can be placed and thus separated from those
among whom the cholera has broken out The ehu
of their long imprisonment on cholera-lniec'e'
shin will be hailed by the passengers OF the NOT
MAMMA with delight which those who have hot
been in like position can hardly realize
There was JOY down the bay yesterday also
when the City Of New-York, the Elbe, La Bour-
gogne. the Waesland and the Wyoming, were
allowed TO come up to the city.
The project OF erecting temporary quarters
Mt Sandy Hook for detained passegcrs on in'ec'eu
ships is still under consideration.
Death mas been at work in the Lower Bay with
scarcely any interruption for 20 many days 'hao
its dreadful novelty has worn of; and when 'I'e
watchers at Upper Quarantine now see the
yellow flag on an approaching tug they prepare
for bad news They are scarcely ever deceived
Yesterdays story which came up late III the
evening from the stunned and isolated Lower
Quarantine was dismal and alarming. Four
teen cases Of cholera, ten Of them new cases OF
illness and four Of them deaths which ended
days of suffering. made up the terrible record.
The details OF the story made the news worse
n shoxyed that tho dieinfpctcl fumiQatcd ana
inspected crew OF the Normannia was being
thinned out more rapidly than before. They had
been kept on Hoffman Island for three days.
as published in Yesterday Tribune. They had
been cleanscd, isolated and watched carefully
Wednesday they were pronounced safe, and sent
back to their ship And few hours aftcrward
eight OF them were down with the fearful malady
Since then the epidemic ha, been steadily at
work, and the yellow flag had 10 he hosted
from the Ill-fa'ed Norma mia at day break, that
The hospital boat might come and take OF
more sufferers. II had TO come more than once.
And before dusk hid the ships signal Of sore
distress, six sailors had been carefully lowered
over the side and taken TO Swinburne Island.
On the steamship Rugia, though fhcre were
only three of illness yesterday. affairs were
really worse, for this unfortunate ship has every
passenger still aboard. The stccragc passengers
are confined in their close quarters, and from
among them the cholera selects its victims each
day and kills them like sheep.
On Hoffman Island, where the siecragc passcn-
grrs Of the steamship Normannia are held, all the
scientific appliances and disinfectants, and alt
the care and wachfulness which are exercised,
according TO the reports haye not had the effect
of queling the disease, for Yesterday another
one Of the immigrants was suddenly scized with
oh. trhi hn UNI. mn follows
was in dying condition before he reached the
pesthousc at Swinburnc Island
On that island, the quiet Of "Wednesday. when
there were no DEATHS was the FUN bcfor, the
storm. In the hours between midnigh. on
"Wednesday and daybicak yesterday morning, IN
the bleak, bare hospital surrounded by the di-
NAL fog-covcrod sca. away from the world, the
end came 20 four poor sufferers, and when the
glorious light Of the rising sun came through
the windows Of the hospital, the nurses had
drawn the sheets over four still faces. The four
who died had suffered many days. Two were
little girls, one only eight years old, named
Elfreda Schultz, and the othcr, Christina Hansen,
ten years old, both from the stecrag, of the
Rugia. Another death was that Of a allor on
the Normannia, Henry Frankel, thirty-nine years
old From the NormaDna's st"erage there was
one victim, Jacob Kesslcr, thirty-three years old.
He was the first man taken i'll with cholera
among the stecrage passengers OF the Normannla
after they had been moved TO Hoffman Island.
He was taken ill on September 4, and all eAer-
tions to save his life proved ip vain.
The new cases OF illness among the Normnnnia g
crew are Franz Albrecht. twcnty-four years old :;
Adolf Meier, twenty-five years old; Gotilcb
Daumishon, thirty-six years old; Gustav Neu-
mann, twenty-five years old; Alexander d'Audc,
twenty -four years old. and Carl Crunch. twenty
one years old. The cases Of illness among the
Rugias stecrage passengers are: Gltav Wells
schofYc? one year old Johann Podratskia. forty
four years old, and Felona Koneschin. thirty
years old The man who was taken i'll or IIofi-
man Island is Karl Blunnig, thrty-eight years
old
II is sinister fac5 that not sngl, case OF
recovery with the exception Of the nurse, Adc-
laide Mcrrcs. has yet been reported from Swim
burne Island. There are now sixty-sevcn patients
there
Eight people in the steeragc Of the Rngia, who
belonged 10 families Of which some member had
already been stricken With cholera, were removed
from the ship yesterday and isolated on Holman
Island. Additional tents have been put up there
for the care OF any further cases.
Last night DR.. Jenkins, in speaking Of the
DISPOSITION which he proposed TO make OF tho
cabin and steeragc passengers of the Normannla
and Rugia, said that the people on the Mornvia
would be allowed 10 remain on the ship, as he
thought that the disease had been completely
stamped ont on board Of that vessel. But late
in the evening the yellow flag, the prcarranged
signal 70 tell the Health Officer at Hoffman
leland of new eases of cholera, raised on thai
steamship, which meant that one new case at
least had appeared on board.
A SUGGESTION By SUPERINTENDENT BfRNEs.