New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-13
THE PASSENGERS JEERLD AT.
EVEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN NOT AL
LOWED TO LAND.
SENATOR M'PHERsoN's IMPAs?IONED APPEAL
FOR THE SUFFERERS AwAKENS NO 2YMPA-
THY-BOTYI SIDES At THE POINT
OF yIOLENCE--AN ATTEMPT TO
BURN THE SURF HOTEL.
fpY TELEGRAPH TO The TRIBUSR.J

BURN THE SURF HOTEL
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Fire Island. Sept. l2.-Thc passengers OF the
Normannia. imprisoned on the Cephcus did not
land at Fire Island to-day. An Injunction OBJ
taincd from Judge Barnard. OF the Supreme Court.
in Brooklyn. cfectually disposed of that. In the
close of the afternoon, the captain Of the
Cephcus tried to land the Normannla passengers
AZ the central pier of the island, facing the main
entrance To the Surf Hotel. and then was wit
messed scene such az for the credit Of humanity
it is hoped may not soon be seen again. Inc
story Yesterday OF the fierce opposition made
by the citizens of Islip and Bay Shore against
the Use of Fire Island as a quarantine station has
already been told Early this morning nu-
pcrvscr William II. Young, of the lslip Board OF
Health. was busy swearing in bay men and store
keepers as deputy constablrs. TIE thirty bay men
who invaded Fire Island late last night
had remained on the pier all through the dark
hours of the morning and just after sunrise their
number was reinforced 10y the fifty or more special
deputy constablcS yworn to preserve the prop
crty Of the township.
The town crowd took mp position at the
extreme eastern end 4 the island just after fr'si-
dent Charles c. Wilson and DR.. Edison. OF the
Health Board, who had remained on the island
all through the night, had left it for New-l orK'
II was not until the island was clear OF these
onicols and DR. Walter Noight. the Quarantine
nhysician. was left in charge, that they made
their nrcscnce known. DR.. Voight caught sight
of ,h,n and going TO where they were, ordered
Them in the name of the State Government 10
leave the pier. John II. Vail, eN-Superylsor OF
Islip replied that the citizens were there awaitlhg
IN. arrival of the injunction which they eNpected
10 receive from Judge Barnard. DR. 'oi9ht TO-
heated his order. Mr.. van dehah"eu Ills
authoritv Dr. Voight had no written order of
authorization to show, and amid the dcrsivr c'c'rs
NJ IN. mob. went back TO the hotel To send
r,oss,o. IN Health Officer Jenkins and Governor
Flower.
THE MOB GROWS LAR iEE AND LARGER.
Then for the next three hours. the one hundred
and fifty citizens of Isp and Bay Shore, their
numbers having grown, marched up and down
the board platforms, occasionally gathering in
knots of twenty or so and holding impromptu in
dignation meetings. All this while Mr.. Vail sat
in his chair on the stoop of Munseys Hotel at the
eastern end Of the island. awaiting the arrival ol
the message which was 10 tell Of victory. Inc
little crowd of Quarantine officials and reporters
anxiously watched the throng at the eastern end
of the pier awaiting the signal which should tell
whether or not the passengers were to be allowed
to land They saw little steam launch run up
to the pier; they figure jump on to the
pier. and then cheer upon cheer rose in the ar
The little knot of watchers at the other end then
knew that Judge Barnard had granted the in-
junction. Dr. Weight rushed to the telegraph
Office and sent dispatch asking for confirmation
OF the rcport Then there strobe into the
office of the hotel, Willard p Reid counsel to the
corporation of Islip Julius Haussr, town clerk;
J. z. O'Brien. justice of the peace; DIR. w. A.
Baker physician TO the Isp Board Of Health, and
John w. Howell, chief of the deputies. MIR. Reid,
in behalf of the Isp Board of Health. walked up
to Dr. Toight and said
Il have to inform you, SIR that we have this
morning obtained injunction from Judge Bar
nard, Of the Supreme Court Second District, OF