The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-10
THE SCANDIA HORROR
Thirty-Four Deaths on
Board From the Dread
Scourge and Many
Sick.
NO OTHER NEW CASES.
New York Still Clear-The Nor
mammals Passengers to
Be Transferred
Today.
Fire Island Bought for a Refuge
for the Saloon Passengers
Sandy Hook Camp
Preparations.
NO OTHER NEW CASES.

QUARANTINE, S. l., Sept. 10, 1892
Thirty-two deaths from cholera at sea
aud seven cases of the disease on board
the Hamburg-American packet liner
Scandal which arrived last night; the
yellow flag flying from her truck at day
break again, with the Quarantine tug
Chrystal Water alongside as an Indication
of still more cases, aud one more death
among the Guion liner Wyoming's steer
age passengers was the record of the
dreaded cholera at the port of New York
at sunrise this morning.
The victims on the Scandal number
Uwenty-nine among her steerage passen-
gers, one cabin passenger and two of her
crew.
The death among the Wyoming's
steerage passengers was that of Mrs. E.
". Perssou, the mother of the two
Swedish children who died on board that
ship at Upper Quarantine, within 1000
yards of the boarding station, during Fri
day night.
WORST PLAGUE SHIP OF ALL.
The Scandia was sighted off Fire Is
laDd at half past six O'Clock last night,
but not until six hours later was the ter
rible Intelligence impaired that of all the
this port during The present cholera
scare she was by long odds the worst.
Health Officer JenKlns had feared she
would prove veritable nest of pestllence.
but even he Was shocked when he learned
the fearful truth.
Fire Island she signalled the operator in
the lofty tower that there was sickness
on board. but she gave no intimaGon of
the terrific swath that death had cut in
the ranks OF her passengers and crew
The truth was not known even wlen she
made Sandy Hook and skirted up the
lower bay for Quarantine, bearing Oil
board not only seven stricken and suffer
ing human beings. but also the deadly
germs which she had collected during
her fifteen days voyage and undoubtedly
for week previous in Hamburg.
INTERCEPTED BY QUARANTINE OFFICIALS
But the Scandia was not to be permit
ted to cast her deadly cargo on American
shores. DR.. Byron, III charge at Swim
burn Island, was Keeping sleepiess
watch for her. When, some three hours
after, she was sighted off Fire Island, she
poked her nose through the increasing
maze that hovered over the lower bay, he
boarded the Quarantine tug Crystal
Water and went off to her. AS the little
craft steamed up along aside the big
black hull. the doctor shouted
"Ahoyi on board shipl Are all well?'
Captain Kopff from the bridge peered
down through the darkness. and wnen he
saw the yellow flag at the little tugs
stern he shook his head ominously anu
gave the order to heave to.
With doubtful feelings DR.. Byron
clambered aboard and held long con-
versaton with the ships doctor, whose
statement of the Scandia's CONDITION un-
nerved even DR.. Byron, accustomed
though he was the constantly occurring
deaths on Swinburne Island aud the daily
increasing ravuges of the plague among
he detained sea voyagers at Lower
Quarantine
TWO DEAD TAKEN OFF.
DR.. jenkins announced at II. 80 that DR.
Byron, on Swinburne Island, makes his
report of more of the Scandals yictims:
''Am just pack from Scandia, with two
dead aud eleven cases. Told The captain
not to move from lower bay"
DIR. Byron's telegram, be said, is cor
rection of last nights despatch, and makes
total of "a deaths i'll all (two in portland
II mot y cases on the Scandta.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm H., Captain Stormer,
from Bremen. via Southampton for New
York was signalled off Fire Island at AS
O'Clock this morning.
She signalled that all on board were
we'll.
The Kaiser Wilhelm reached JQuaran-
tine at 1880 o'clock. She brings $50 steer
age passengers.