The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-31
Burials at Hamburg Extend Far
Into the Night.
HEAT FAvORs THE DISEASE.
Victims at Liverpool Just on the Point
of Sailing for America.
The United States Has q Gordon Along
the Atlantic, the Gulf and the Cana
dian Frontier. Which Can Be Tight
cned at an Hours Notice.

HAMBURG, Aug. 30.-Snce last night
there has been an enormous increase in
the number of persons attacked and who
have died. Eight hundred and ten new
cases and $40 deaths have occurred today.
lnterments yesterday lasted far into the
night. the total for the day being o91. A
feeling OF deep gloom has settled over the
city. The loss to the commercial COM
munity is reckoned at severaA million
marks daily. The exodus from the city is
unabated, and the number of foreigners
arriving has fallen to the lowest on record.
There We're only twenty-nine arrivals in
all at the hotels of this city on Monday.
The weather is damp and sultry. The
temperature is 81 in the shade, and the
condition is favorable to the progress of
the epidemic.
Many cases of cholera were reported to-
day in Barmbra, three miles northeast of
Hamburg. A renewal of warm weather
threatens to increase the rayages of the ep-
idemic in this city.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 30-Four Russian emi-
grants, who were to sail from here for
America today, have been stricken with
cholera They have been removed to the
hospital. The cases are not confirmed as
being Asiatic.
PARIS, Aug. 3O-There is decided i'm
provement in the health of the city, only
twenty new cases of cholera and four
deaths having occurred during the day.
-Four deaths from choleraic disorders were
reported at Sarcellis today. Three deaths
from the same causes occurred in Stouon,
both places being suburbs of Paris.
PHILApELrHIA. Aug. 30.-The steamship
British Princess, from Liverpool, with 600
immigrants aboard, twenty-five of whom
are from Hamburg, is still detained at
quarantine. The work of disinfecting is
completed, but although there was no
sickness aboard the steamship she will be
detained at quarantine until the board of
health is satisfied that all danger of chol-
era has passed.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 30.-The official
information of the cholera in Europe re-
ceived at Washington City today is very
meager and confined to one dispatch from
the consul at Bremen. He cabled that there
is no Asiatic cholera in the city, and that
every precaution is being taken to prevent
it. Treasury officials have received assur-
ances of the effectiveness of the
national and state quarantine service,
and they say the department has
done all it can do to prevent
cholera gaining admission into the United
States. Gordon inspection and disinfec-
ton is being rapidly established on the
seaboard from Louisiana to Maine and
along the Canadian and Mexican frontiers.
A circular on the subject was issued by
Acting Secretary Spaulding this afternoon
to collectors of customs and others. Collect
ors of custom on the Canadian and
Mexican frontiers are instructed to exer-
else special vigilance in the examination
of immigrants and effects, and to Coop
crate with officers of the marine hospital
service and local health officers in such
action as they may deem advisable to
prevent the introduction of cholera in the
United States.
At the request of Collector Hopkins, of
Detroit, Surgeon-General Wiman has ap-
pointed DIR. Mulhearn special inspector at
that port to assist the local authorities in
examining immigrants and baggage from
Canada. If it shall be found necessary,
inspectors will also be appointed at Sault
Ste Marie, Port Huron and other lake
ports to assist in preventing the
introduction of cholera. The collector of
customs at Ogdensburg. NY, and Milford,
Me-, have been requested to nominate
inspectors to assist in the inspection and
oisinfection of immigrants at those points
should it be necessary. If there are many
immigrants on the north medical inspect
ors will be stationed to assist the regular
inspectors. In case of the establishment
of absolute quarantine the Gordon can be
drawn out within an hour by telegram
from the secretary, and the United States
would be shut out from the world on the
east.
BERLIN, Aug. 30-There was a slight
abatement of the severity of the cholera
epidemic at Altoona from Sunday to mid
night Monday. The record shows twenty
new cases and eight deaths. At Wandes-
beck, for the same period, the record shows
seventeen new cases and nine deaths.
Eight children and the conductor of
sleeping car attached to a Hamburg train
were seized with cholera during the
Journey today and removed to-
a hospital Mt Lud wigslust. The
conductors wife died from the
disease on Sunday. A traveller from Ham
burg was stricken with cholera at Darn
stadt today, and the authorities at once
or dered that the town be covered
with placards containing special sanitary
regulations. The price OF disinfectan,s,
especially carbolic acid, has risen 100 per
cent. in this city since the appearance of
cholera. The abnormal increase is plac-
ing disinfecting articles beyond the reach
of the poor The newspapers advocate
free distribution of disinfectants.
It is officially announced that cholera is
prevalent in sixteen places in Schieswig
and in three places in the district of Lune-
berg. At Leipsic one case of the disease
has occurred, and one case is reported at
Neustadt. The patients at Leipsic and
Neustadt both came from Hamburg. The
National Zeitung states that there are three
distinct cases of Asiatic cholera at the
Moabite hospital in Berlin. Two cases, it
SAYS. came from Hamburg, while the third
is a Berlin wharf laborer. During the past
twenty-fcur hours seventeen new suspects
have been taken to the hospital.
At Weissetse, in the suburbs ofthis city,
a serious riot occurred last night. Among
the members of travelling show was a
woman whose son arrived yesterday from
Hamburg. Fearing he would import
cholera contagion the police ordered the
son and mother TO return to Hamburg.
They refused, and after frantic resistance,
were removed to the lazareito. In the
meantime the police ordered the show to
be closed The showmen refused, and
showed fight. The crowd sided with the
showmen, and free fight followed. The
police were getting the worst OF 1t. when
gendarmes we're summoned.
HAvRE, Aug. 3o.-Beginning September