The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-09-13
REFUSED LANDING
Passengers frum the Normannia
Driven or by the Fire
Islanders
Who Threaten to Burn the Surf
Hotel and Cottages II the at
tempt Is Persisted In.

IN
Governor Flower on the Way 20 Nov
York May Call Ont
Militia.
NEW York, Sept. is. When tele-
graphic communication was cut OF
during the night between this city and
Babylon and Islip, +. 4, It was an
nounced that mob Of from 800 to 1000
bay men from the neighborhood Of Fire
island would muster from all parts Of
the great soath bay and make q descent
upon Fire island with the intention OF
burning the Surf hotel and its adjacent
thirteen cottages to the ground In order
to prevent these buildings from being
used to shelter the quarantined saloon
passengers Ut the Normannia.
The hotel and outbuildings were de-
Tended when the last news was received
from Fire island by President Wilson,
Of the New York board Of health, as
sisted by few employees and score Of
New York reporters, who gathered there
10 describe the landing of the quaran-
tined passengers. But the passengers
were prevented from landing by the VI
olence Of the bay men, who threatened
to !. I'm the hotel and who 90 frightened
the pilot who was to take the steamboat
bearing the Normannia's passengers
over the bar that he refused TO do his
duty. and the Cepheus, the steamer
to which the unhappy passengers were
transferred after the Stonington was
found to be unseaworthy, had to put
back for Sandy Hook, and subsequently
transferred the Normannia's 6rst-class
passengers back to the Stonington and
lodged the second-class passengers on
board the New Hampshire. AL the
passengers passed most miserable
night in the Horse Shoe bend on
board the vessels referred to, and as
provisions were not easily cooked. and
as sleeping accommodation were not of
the hest, even for hardy soldiers and
sailors, many Of the detained people
broke down completely and wept ut
their fate, while bewailing the apparent
mismanagement Of the authorities.
Gov. Flower has been telegraphed for
and ID Fastening here with the an
nounced intention Of calling out the
state troops IL necessary in order to OBJ
tain possession of Fire island. On the
other hand. the bay men hint that by
the time the troops reach Fire island
the Surf hotel and the hotel property
surrounding it win be 20 many heaps Of
smoking embers.
There was only one death from cholera
among the !. 800 quarantined passengers,
and this occurred on board the Scandia.
There have been no cases Of cholera In
New York, and the disease seems to be
confined to the last infected ship which
arrived here tho Scandia.
There is, In some quarters, DISPOSE
tion to belittle the gravity Of the situa-
tion at quarantine now that IL has been
shown that the health authorities have
successfully fought cholera for eighteen
days But it must not be forgotten that
about 800 people are now in quarantine
and that before the flood Of immigration
ceases that there will be about 10000
people to be cared for at the gates Of
New York.
The quarantine barracks 1T Hoffman
island are already overtaxed and Ill the
infected wards are full. Happily the
government camp on Sandy Hook Camp
Low Is about ready for occupation, and
the Surf hotel. on Fire Island, may be
made. il the bay men permit or the
state authirities triumph, with it's thir-
teen cottages and its 1876 acres Of land,
to accommodate more people than those
which 1t is proposed to take there from
the Normannia But II i a open ques-
ton as to whether even these prepara-
tions will meet the requirements,
However, even should further camp
ing grounds be required, IL win be
promptly provided by the federal au-
thorities or BY the state, - both are now
apparently working Ia harmony There
ii no doubt, It may be added, that the
health authorities, as represented BY Dr.
Jenkins, have not received the offers of