New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-12
TROUBLE AT QUARANTINE.
MORE DEATH AND SICKNESS
NORNIANNIA CABIN PASSENGERS HUSTLED
ABOUT IN DISCOMFORT.

By THE IRON STEAMBOAT CEPHEUs-A
FUTILE ATTEMPT TO LAND THEM AT
FIRE I:LAND-A ROUGH TRIP BACK
AGAIN IN THE DARK-NEW
ARRIVALS DETAINED
FOR INFECTION.
The cabin passengers Of the plague snip >'r-
MAMMA had another bitter experience Nes'ei-
day They were transferred TO the Cepheus IN
the afternoon, and sent to FIRE lsiano IN "e
face of rough weather The result proved un-
fortunate. and for time fears were entertainer
that It might prove disastrous. The Cepheus
started from Lower Quarantine at 3 80 D. m.
arrived off Fire Island bar at p. m. lay there
for about forty minutes, till her captain found
she could not cross and finally returned to the
Horseshoe. passing Sandy Hook at 10 p m
last night.
The thought Of the Cephus, with the
transferred cabin passengers, numbering almoso
800. of the chcIera-infected steamship Nor
MAMMA on board, tossing somewhere ont az sea III
the darkness with half gale OF WIND blowns
on shore and great waves dashng on Long Island s
dangerous southern coast. furnished so much ex-
citcment at Quarantine last night that even the
cholera was forgotten for time. Some one had
Numbered again None of the men who looked at
Dr. Jcnkns's tired carcworn face In the evening
and saw what hard work th" men had been doing,
liked to suggest to him that IL was NOT ~l-e
thing 10 allow the Cepheus 10 90 to Fire Island
IN the face Of that high wind and angry
II was bad ending for what might have been
a day of happiness TO him. For yesterday for the
first time from the gloomy feet IN the cholera
quarantine. there was good news. Had it not been
tIo Soa M p0il1
repcrtcd with a thankful heart, All well to-day,
and no new cases or deaths For on Hoffman
and Syinburne i,land9 OF the Moravia, Norman
ria and Rugia tho plague had paused in IFS dread
ful work. and Sunday. far as they were con-
ccrncd was happy day indeed The Scandia
alone furnished additions the sad list and even
she worse than my OF the others, had only three
new cases Of illness aboard, and one death, that
Of n little child.
The chartering Of the Cephus for the trans
fcrrng Of the cabin passengers Of the Normannia
To Fire Island was IA piece OF news In ltsfli'
for. until she arrived off Quarantine. everyone
there had supposed that the Sonington chartered
by J. Perpont Morgan. and lent by him to the
health officials. 10 be used for that pur-
pose The Normannias cabin passengers had all
been transferred to the Stonington on Saturday af-
ternoon and all night the boat had been lying
ny the IRON Sllc OF tie DlS snip ENtryOpuy
thought that everything was settled at last and
that there would be further trouble. Sud-
denly the Cepheus came down the harbor with
j. Sergeant Cram aboard. DIR. Jenkins had tele-
graphed 10 him in the morning 10 charter the
boat. He explained that lie had done this :" be-
cause the Stonington had been declared not sea-
worthy. and had also been the cause of much
complaint from the cabin passengers. The ranges
did not work. and the people left without
cooked food
Owing 10 the heavy sea, "A barge which was
sent down with materials and men for making
repairs, could not lie alongside anl therefore
nothing could be done. So the Cephus was sent
for. and DR.. Jenkins went down 70 the Lower Bay
in the revenue cutter /. : Grant. boarded the
Cephus and supcrinten,ed the removal of the
passengers from the Stcninrton TO that boat
After the C"pheus had all the people on board,
she was provSioncd and ordered to take her
passengers Fire Island. She headed out to
sea in the teeth of wind which blew from the
southeast with such force that even the big
pilotboats came in under recfed canvas. Sweep
Ing it did over the open ocean it raised a heavy
-cca. and even in t'.c comparatively sheltered
Lower Bay the swell was BIC enough to make
navigation dfhcult for any except the larger
vessels. Along the south shore Of Long Island
il raised n heavy surf, and old pilots at Quaran-
tine shook their heads and prOphcsied a hard
and dangerous voyage fer the craft. They sail
that, with such a running, and with
that wind blowing dead on shore, il was doubt
full whether the captain of the Cepheus could bring
her into the inlet at Fire Island
The result showed that they were right for
at O'Clock the Cepheus arrived Off Fire Island
bar For forty minutes she lay there trying 10
get across Had the weather been calm she
could have done it easily With the sea that
was running it impossible, for the trough
that followed the tremendous waves which broke
over the sandbar left only few feet of water
there. When the captain saw that there was no
chance OF getting into the bay lie headed the
boat out to sea again. aud through the darkness
shc plunged rolled and struggled to get back to
the place she had left, the Lower Quarantine
With each e,a breaking on her broadside with
the wind blowing her on the shore, she fought her
way along. and her passengers realized that they
had Jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
The Cephcus had no accommodations for sleep
ING. had any cared TO sleep, and they had Il
wretchcd time.
The cabin passengers Of the Rugla. who had
,votched thc transfer of their ncighbors with
enyv became reconciled TO their lot when they
heard the wind wall from tho dark ana angry
sea last night There another circumstance
which added to their contentment IL was that
their unpleasant and dangerous fellow passengers
OF the stccragc had heen removed to liohmah Is
land, where a pavilion had been cleared out ior
their accommodation. Then, too, they had before
them the prospect of relief from their prison. Tor
DIR. jenkins said that he proposed to send them 10
Fire Island as possible.
The idea of putting them aboard of the onited
States ship New Hampshire had been droppea
when the purchase of Fire I-land was compict,u'
The New-Iampshire may be used f1r the pasSeh-
rcrs of the Scandia, according TO Dr. jenkins
remarks last night.
The removal Of any OF the MoravmS Passch-
gers is not considered necessary lor ne .'i'N'
L,. b,on clac.cI on board OF her.