The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-03
TV0MORE.
)ther Plague Ships
Reach New York.
CHOLERA LADEN.
The RuSia and NOrmannia
from Hamburg.
MANY DEATHS AT SEA.
Two Cabin Passengers are Re-
ported Among the Victims.
Two Cabin Passengers are Re-
ported Among the Victims.
ONE MORE ON THE MoRAvlA.
Moro Hamburg Liners Bring the
Plague To New York and are Ordered
Into Quarantine Guards Patrol the
Docks with Loaded Revolvers-The
Pest as IL has Ragged In Past Epi-
denies In this City.


QUARANTINE, N Y, Sept. 3-The
steamer Rugia, of the Hamburg Ameri-
can line, arrived In the harbor this morn
element by reporting that there had
been twenty-three deaths from cholera on
the voyage, and that there are now ten
we'll developed cases aboard.
AS soon as the alarming news was re-
ceived by the health officers, they at once
started for the infected vessel, and with
members OF the sanitary police force pro-
ceeded to the lower bay.
The vessel was ordered under quaran-
tine, guards being stationed on the decks
with orders to shoot all who venture
near. The Rugia has aboard 436 immi-
grants and ninety-eight cabin passengers.
The disease spread rapidly soon after the
vessel left Hamburg and despite all ef
forts to check it, new cases developed
daily.
The death rate became appalling, aud
all the passengers OH the steamer were
terror-stricken.
Twice day after the breaking out of
the disease. aud some days oftener, hu.
man form was placed in a canvas spread
aud thrown into the sea.
The disease seemed TO take children for
its victims almost entirely, and most OF
the dead were children. AS fast as the
passengers were stricken they were iso-
lated, and the passengers, cabin and
steerage, kept within certain bounds to
prevent all possible contagion.
The Rugia's commander Is Captain
I.ithauser, and the vessel is considered
one of the finest owned by the Hamburg
American packet company. II is 357 ieet
long, has 43-foot beam and 2S-feet
draught. 1t is single screw. 1900 in
dicated horse power Its equipments are
of the best and IL Is considered fast.
Two other steamers of this line, the
Normaunia and the Stubenhuk, arrive
in the harbor this morning and have been
placed in quarantine. There are as yet
no indications Of the plague on either of
these vessels. The passengers, freight
and mails will be fumigated and both
steamers will be detained and closely
watched.
1t is reported the Rugia lost two cabin
passengers during the trip from the dis
ease besides occupants OF the second cabin
and steerage.
The health officers report that there are
no new cases On board the Moravia and
that all the paints are doing well. All
is quiet about the vessel and the sanitary
police patrol the decks, their loaded rifles
being silent warning to inquisitive peo-
pie who venture near.
DIR. jenkins thinks that the board will
be successful in keeping the plague from
the city and does not expect to tud any
cases ashore.
The news of the arrival of the Rugia
with the plague aboard has caused the
most intense excitement on the streets
and in business circles, and the cholera
Is the only topic Of conversation.
No cases have developed aboard the
vessels that arrived yesterday, and the
health officers don't expect trouble from
any of them. They will be closely
.aeo ha1 hAx 10 so -.
yond a shadow of doubt that it is safe to
admit them to the harbor
On Sunday La Bourgogne, from Havre,
is due, and on Monday another Hamburg
vessel, the Suevia. will doubtless drop
anchor at Quarantine. The arrival OF
these ships will mark crisis In the vigil
OF the health officers OF the port: Tue
chances are great that they will have
cholera on board. coming as they do from
cholera infested ports
The Bohemia, which left Hamburg with
big load Of immigrants, will be another
dangerous craft, and the worst OF the fight
against the plague will not be over until
she has arrived and relegated TO the lower
bay. This steamer will. with the Adriatic
from Liverpool, and the Hermann from
Cherbourg, form the rear column of the
menacing fleet heading for this port.
The Bohemia's shipload, however, will
be the costliest that the Hars Amer
can Company ever booked. Tue presi-
dents order is now In force aud the Ham
burg American Company will have the
pleasure OF providing its go passengers
with board aud lodgings OH the Bohemia
for twenty days after her arrival at this
port.
The World has n sensational story to
the elect that bedding. boxes and barrels
from the cholera ship Moravia have been
cast ashore on Coney Island Point aud
carried home by the pckers-up of drift
wood and refuse.
Chief McLane Of Coney Island will es-
tablish beach patrol TO examine all stuff
washed ashore. !.
LATER--At II o'clock IL was learned
that the Normannaia also had cholera
aboard aud that five deaths had occurred
on the voyage. Four more are stricken
The dead are: Carl Heineman, first
cabin passenger; Carl Heigert, second
cabin aud Ottillia Storm. Millie storm
and Adolph Schooltz, steerage passen-
gers
The four passengers now i'll are said to
be convalescent AT the compapy's office