Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-09-24
LANDED AT LAST.
Free After Two Long Weeks at
Quarantine.
The Cholera Situation in London, Paris
and Hamburg.

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and Hamburg.
A despatch from Camp Low, Sandy Hook,
n. J., says; The unfortunates who have
been detained on ships and at Hoffman Isl
AID during the last two weeks were landed
here.
They are passengers from the Hamburg
American Packet Company's steamers Nor
MAMMA and Rugia, and come here to under
90 third of the required detention in quar-
antine The 700 people who were landed
from Hoffman Island came in two parties on
ihe steamer William Fletcher They pre-
iented remarkable congregation of nation
alitieS.
Sunburnt Turks iostled phlegmatic leu
tons; Armenians crowded in upon rosy
checked girls and little children; Arabians
dressed in their picturesque garb of wide,
baggy trousers, bright yellow shirts and red
dresses, pushed in among throng of people
of all nations, and for some time one would
have imagined Sandy Hook was the newt
able site selected for a modern Tower OF
Babel When the boat carrying the first
General Hamilton, attended by the medical
staff of the camp, walked down the gangway,
which had been run out.
The commandments orderly, Chief Bugler
Wilcox, of the Twenty Regiment, n
6. S. N. Y, stood at his side aud promptly
at 1855 P. NJ, on The general giving the
order, Camp Low was isolated from the
world until the strict quarantine is raised.
As toe immigrants landed they file past the
staff Of interpreters, who stood at a long
table and acted as entry clerks for the COM
mandant taking the name. age, place of
| birth, destination and the name of the ship
In which each passenger had come. Just be-
fore the passengers landed the police boat
Patrol came down the bay, having on board
Mayor Grant, Health Officer Jenkins, Super
| intendent Byrnes, Quarantine Commissioner
! Allen and Immigrant Commissioner Samuel
Grant.
Immediately after dinner General Hamil-
ton selected 50 abie-bodied men from among
the immigrants and put them to work on
the structure under the direction of the fore
man carpenter. They will be paid for their
labor and the barrrcks will be completed
within "a hours. Nearly all the passengers
were loud in their denunciatioD of officials
of the Hamburg American Line on account
of the treatment they had received on the
steamers Ex-PoStmaster Seim, of Walling
| ford, said he would have come III the first
cabin, but could not get passage.
| NO DEATHS, no SUSPECTS.
New YoRK.-The board of health issued
bulletin in which il was stated that no cases
or suspected cases of cholera had appeared
since last Tuesday.
They report that there is no reason to be-
iieve the diagnosis of the attending physician
in the case of Peter Callahan IA suspected
case of choleralto be incorrect, in thai death
was due to darrhel and exhaustion.
The report of the psychologists as to the
case of Mary Conerty, a suspected cholera
case, is to tue effect that no sperillium of
| cholera has been discovered.
AT QUARANTINE.
! Quarantine, S. lit is very quiet and I'M
marked by any more exciting here than the
/ transfer at 10 o'clock of the steamship Wy
/ omings passengers, ON board the Cepheus
| to Fire Island. They made no difficulty
about going though Dir. Sanborne, who So
/ perintepded the removal, stated that some
! OF the passengers gave vent to their opinions
/ in very loud tones. The only death reported
4 was that OF a child on board the Scandal,
who died of marasmus There were no new
| cases and no deaths on board any of the
/ ships or ON the island. and it would appear
/ that the cholera spectre is now safely de-
4 teated.
CHOLERA FIGURES.
London-The Standards Hamburg cor
! respondent says
/ "The cholera epidemic shows TO abate-
ment. The figures are T03 new cases, "a
/ deaths and 329 burials. The number of
/ patients in the hospitals is 3,03l. The cpl
/ demic has increased in the suburbs, Ems.
| buttel and st. Vault. The ma i1iity of tie
| public schools in Altoona will be opened this
week. The theatrical performances and con-
! certs are thinly attended
/ FIFTEEN DEATHS IN ST. PETERSBURG
Forty-one fresh cases of cholera were re-
! ported and fifteen patients have died.
Ninety two persons who have been under
/ treatment were pronounced by the physi-
clans to have recovered from the disease.
4 The returns received in regard to the pro-
/ gress OF the epidemic throughout Russia
shows a steady decrease in the virulence Of
the scourge.
FOUR DEATHS IN VIENNA.
/ Vienna.-Four deaths from Asiatie cholera
4 have occurred at Podgorze in Austrial Cali
cha. 1t is supposed tho infection was intro
duced there from Villages on the Russian
side of the Vistula. An order has been IS
/ sued that all travellers by railway from
/ Podgorze and Cracow be subjected TO medi-
cal examination.
A BERLIN WAITER STRICKEN.
| Berin.-A waiter who had formerly beer
employed as an attendant in a hospital a,
| Hamburg, was stricken with cholera in Der.
+ lin.