St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-04
BROUGHT The PEST.
Two Vessels Arrive in New
York With the Scourge
on Board.
They We're the Rugia and
Normannia. Both From
Hamburg.
Ten Cases on the Former and
Eight Cases on the
Latter.
Both Are at Once Ordered
to the Lower Quar-
antine.

New YORK, Sept. 3.-Nothing can
now save the metropolis from great
plague but absolute compliance on the
part of every member of the community
with the Instructions of the board of
health and the quarantine authorities.
The danger is real. 1t cannot be over
estimated.
Two newly infected steamships ar
rived in this harbor today with awful
stories OF death and suffering. They
were the Rugia and Normannia, both
from Hamburg. The Rugia buried five
steerage passengers at sea and had five
living cholera patients still on board
when she cast anchor. The Normannia
buried four steerage passengers and
one cabin passenger. She had four pa
tientS still alive, one being member of
the crew. 1t is claimed that the cabin
passenger who died on the Normannia
was suffering from diabetes only. The
deaths Oh the Normannia were:
Carl Hergert, second cabin, aged fifty
seven. diagnosis, cholerine: died Aug.
90. Jacob Hegemann, first cabin, aged
forty-five, diagnosis, diabetes: ships
surgeon admits that patient had diar-
rhea; died on Sept. l. Otilie Harm,
aged eleven months, diagnosis, cboler-
inc; died on Aug. 20. Willie Harm,
aged three years, diagnosis, cholerine;
died Sept. l. AdoIph Scholtz, aged one
year. diagnosis. chOleiine; died Sept. 2.
The convalescents were as follows:
Henreich Frank Heiser, one of the
crew, aged thirty-nine; diagnosis chol-
erlne. Rudolph Hernich, aged eleven
months; diagnosis ch0lerine. Selma
Harm, aged five years; diagnosis chol-
crime. Morris Bonheiser, aged fifty-nine
years; diagnosis cholerine.
On Board the Rugta
the following deaths occurred:
Bertha Koenig, aged thirty-nine years,
Belgrade, died Aug. IS: diagnosis chol-
crime. Carl Koenig, aged thirty-nine
years, Belgrade, died Aug. 2S; diagnosis
cholerine. The two above were pre-
sumably man and wife. Rosie Sterr,
aged thirty years, Vienna, died Sept. L;
diagosls cholerine. Edward Sterr, aged
thirty years, Vienna, died Sept. 1; dag
noSiS cholerine.
The convalescents on the Rugia were
as follows:
Elem Pogaski, aged 81 years; diagno-
sis. cholerine. Paul Koenig, aged 8
years, Belgrade; diagnosis. cholerine.
johanna Bust, aged 81 years, Mecklen
burg; diagnosis, chOlerine. Aurion
Peters, aged 62 years. Schleswig; dag
nosiS, chOlerine. KoSmiO Dispalo, aged
"a years, Italy; diagnosis. cholerine.
All the dead had been buried at sea.
The convaleScent cases are considered
very serious, and further deaths are
likely to occur. Health Officer Jenkins
Immediately ordered both ships to the
lower bay as soon as the captains of the
vessels had notified him of the condition
of affairs.
The Normannia sailed from Hamburg
on Aug. 20, and touched at Southamp-
ton on her way to this port. She car
ned 266 first-class and 222 second-class
passengers. Her steerage passengers
were 4S2 in number.
The First Death
on board the Normannia occurred
Aug. 29. Carl Hegert, fifty-seven years
old, Second-class passenger, had been
taken with disease which the ships
physician diagnosed as cholerine. A
similar disease was discovered about
the same time in the Steerage in the
person of Otilie Harm, a child eleven
months of age. The cholera symptoms
developed rapidly in both cases and left
no doubt in the mind of the ships sur
geon as to the nature of the disease.
When Hegert's death, Aug. 20. was
followed by the death of the other pa
tient the child in the steerage, Aug. 80,
the authorities of the ship recognized
the serious condition of affairs. They
at once took all possible precautions to
prevent the disease from spreading
among other passengers OH board the
vessel.
Notwithstanding their efforts, several
other illnesses of like nature were soon
discovered. The surgeon took radical
measures. He carefully isolated all the
patients and personally saw that the
utmost care was exercised by the per-
sons engaged in nursing them to avoid
communicating the disease to others.
There Was Great Alarm
among the passengers when they
learned that the dread disease had ap
peared on board the vessel. The captain
cabin passengers by assuring them that
every effort would be made to keep the
disease from spreading, and urged them
to give HIM every assistance in their
power to bring about that result. Then
he turned his attention to the Steerage,
where the greatest danger of the dis
ease spreading was apprehended.
The ignorant steerage passengers
were completely panic-stricken upon
among them. They lost their heads en-
tirely and appeared to be incapable of
helping themselves in the slightest re-
sbect. The captain and the surgeon
ordered careful watch to be kept over
the steerage passengers in order that
they did not heedlessly run into danger
of catching the disease.
In spite of all the precautions that
they took more cases soon developed.
The symptoms in nearly all were alike.
Five more were taken ill in the steer
age. four of them being children.
Adolph ScholtZ. one year old; Willie
Harm, three years old; Rudolph Her.
nish, eleven months old, and Selma
Hern, five years old. The
Cholera Symptoms
developed rapidly in these cases, as it
did in the previous ones, and in each
case the diagnosis of the surgeon
showed the disease to be what he termed
cholerne. Willie Harm rapidly grew
worse and died Sept. 1.
On the same day there occurred a
death among the first cabin passengers,
Jacob Hegeman, forty-five years of age,
had fallen i'll with a severe form of
diarrhma. Complications led the ships
surgeon to diagnoS his illness as dia-
betes. All the remedies that could be
used were administered to the sick man,
but the physicians efforts were of no
avail. and Hegeman died Sept. L. There
was no further appearance of anything
resembling cholera among the first
cabin passengers after the death Of Mr..