, 1892-09-10
A GHOSTLY FLEET.
Quarantined Vessels at the Lower
Bay-Their Appearance,
Nine Hundred and Eighty-One Im-
migrants ON One VesseI--RepOrts
From SwInburn EsIand--Passen-
gers Given a BAH.

mig rants on OAe ports
From SwInBurn IsIand--Passen-
gers Given "A Bath.
QUARANTINE, September 1O.-A message
from Swinburne Island says two more
dead bodies and eleven cases were removed
from the Scandia this morning.
1t is a sad tale which reaches the people
from the lower bay, where the Normania,
Moravia, Rugia, Wyoming, Wieland and
scandia now form ghostly, feeted, en-
veloped-ike pail in fog, which prevents
the watchers on shore from making out
whether or not the dreaded yellow flag is
again thrown to the breeze, but there is a
silver lining even to this dark cloud, for
the health authorities still keep the "No
cholera here" signal flying from the island
and Kiser Wilhelm, from Bremen, has
passed Fire Island after hoisting the happy
flags which denote CAN we'll on
board" There is no doubt, how
ever, that new addition to
the cholera feet has increased
the gravity of the state of affairs existing
at Quarantine. and that the already over
taxed quarantine officers have more than
they can well do in lighting the cholera off
our coasts. Nobody has lost heart, how
ever, and the belief that the scourge will
be driven back is strengthening instead of
weakening as the days go by, and no cases
of cholera appear in New York. The feel
ing of security arises from the fact that
every day draws us nearer to cold weather,
that the city is getting cleaner and cleaner
every day, and that the health fortifcations
are erected everywhere.
QUARANTINE, September lO.-Ihe crew
of the quarantine tugboat "Fletcher," !"
which was ordered this morning to trans
fer the passengers of the NOrmania and
Rugia to the relief vessels Stonington and
New Hampshire, have refused to do duty
with the tugboat on this service. The
health officer is now endeaYoring to secure
another crew. DIR. Jenkins has received a
telegram from DR.. Byron, in which the lat
ter states that he is just back from the Scan
with two dead bodies and eleven cases.
NEW YORK, September 10.-The health
board has issued a bulletin which reads /;
mo cases of cholera have appeared in this
city" The work of fumlgating the Scandia
was begun long before daybreak. DR.. Jen-
kins visited the Scandia this morning and
examined every person on board. The
task was an arduous one, for her immi-
grant passengers alone numbered ninety
eight.
The Scandals passengers are for the
most part Russian Jews. They all boarded
at cheap and dirty lodging houses near the
wharves in Hamburg for some days before
they boarded the steamer. All classes
were allowed to intermingle during the
trip Little care is ever taken aboard these
immigrant vessels to keep them clean.
The ships crew being inadequate for work
and the passengers themselves being in
different as to their surroundings.
There were no deaths reported today.
All the Wyoming's immigrant paaengers
were removed to Hoffman island aial there
given bath. They will not be returned
to the steamer. They will be isolated from
all other persons now on Hoffman island
and their cclothing and luggage thoroughly
fumigated and disinfected.
The steamer StoningtOn was alongside
the NOrmania in the lower bay when the
information was received that the crew of
the tug VIII Fletcher had deserted and re-
fused to transfer passengers on the Rugia
and Normania to the relief ships. The
owner of the tug departed for quarantine
on another tug with a new crew to accom-
plish the work.
HAMBURG. Sept. 1O.-If any reliance
whatever is to be placed upon the official
statistics, the plague continues to- aoate
ported, a decrease of Oil as compared with
the previous DAY. The deaths yesterday
were placed at 100 as against 214 for Thurs.
day. The daily reports, however, continue
to be badly mixed up, as is evidenced by
the supplementary report issued today
giving 1913 new cases and Al deaths that oc-
cured prior to yesterday, and we're not in
corporated in prior returns.
DETROIT, September 10.-The twenty
daps' quarantine went into effect yesterday
and already sixty Italian and German inn
migrants are held in Windsor, Ontario,
across the river from here.
KANSAS CITY, September 10.-The execu-
tive committee of the Kansas and Mis-
souri, state boards of health are in session
in this city discussing the cholera situation
and providing mutual arrangements for
prevention or control of the scOurge should
it appear in the west