The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-13
THEPLAGUE SPREADS
Nine New Cases--Two Deaths at
Victoria in a Day.
VACCINE SUPPLY EXHAUSTED.
s.se Disease Appears in Chinese quarter
-Nos,.e Able to Leave the Stricken
City. 0sipg to Quarantine

rosr Toxxsv Especial. 1.-The city
eounel aiopea July onigh: ordering
quarantine against oil stearnets iioI, t.
Kilograms irom the mayors of T,e.
CONS we're ,eed. promising coopS = - rrs-sn.
mayor %. !" nascom wired, declining .ha ,ea.
tine agaihs. Victoria, for ,..s..-
80. son 'r nss. - passengers must townsend
or Seattle TO Nhatcom. Navor T;bhsIxs and the
Puget sound board of health notified Napsain
Roberts, OF the steamer City of Rinrsto&h that
his vessel would be liable to ousrsntine after
today If she continued plying between vi etoEis
and Puget sound ports. The Efnrsto, vi Int 10
Victoria today with Health Officer RaI,,wf In ard
Uuitsd-s,ates Quarantine onicer d bnoEer
sboard. whe nEersonaily exam ne ell
the passengers going aboard the K ngston
At Victoria. Tho mails 70. the I5niteG States
will be thoroughly fumigatet Soodal Per-
kins K Co. OF san Francisco weS mott ed to-
day that their steamers must cate d sct To
this mort Two yatchmen and heath Ulcers
wifi aceornnanv the vessels to Gloria
and there superintend the landing pas
sengers and freight gang OF lorgs4 yemen
will be taken from here to handle TIP cargo
and 10 persons at Victoria will be perInjtted 70
come alongside the vessel request hfs been
made to the department at Washington City
asking permission to allow these steamers to
come and go to Victoria without enteEing or
clearing at tho custom mouse, thus aFoiflas az
eessity for any communication with the people
In Victoria.
The steamer City OF Kingston arrivef from
Victoria at IL O'Clock, with no passengers,
freight or mails. Doctors Baldwin and CepoTer,
health officers, who accompanied the Kingston
from Victoria today, said tonight: GIeaith
Officer Milne states positively that oniyt forty
eight cases OF smallpox exist in Victo4a, and
that only four deaths have occurred. Th4 people
generally, however, differ with the authorities
and they assert that from sevetty-fve
to $50 cases exist in the city. bulletin posted
ON one OF the streets there today stated that five
persons had died with the disease sanceEester-
day noon. One case was reported In Chifatown
this afternoon and IL the disease gets tht start
there a frightfui epidemic viii follow The
people are not particularly alarmed, but ,|Tecog-
mise the serious phase of the situation. About
fifty people assembled near the docks
begging tho officers OF the Kings
ton to take them away, offering
an high rs $50 piece They were rafusett. They
then proposed to charter steamer and 90 across
20 Port Angeles and get up Sound beftre the
quarantine regulations could bo established.
The British authorities were notified TO
thoroughly fumignte all mall matter before be
ing placed aboard the steamer for Sound ports.
Norman J. Smith, mayor OF Port Angeles. was
In Port townsend tonight. and on becoming
cognizant of the situation wired the auth critics
mt Port Angeles TO order absolute quafantne
against vessels from British Columbia, ports.
The Puget sound health officers are confident OF
preventing the disease from being introduced
on the Sound.