The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-09-21
The Cholera.

The passengers of the Normannia," who
had been transferred to the "Cepheus"
landed on Fire Island on Tuesday OF last
week. The supreme court, general term Of
Kings county, had dissolved the injunction
OF Judge Barnard prohibiting the use of
Fire Island by the " Normannia passen-
gers. AS soon as Governor Flower heard
of the vacation of the In JUNCTION he sent
dispatch to the captain of the Cepheus "
telling him OF the fact and ordering him to
land his passengers at once. The sheriff,
Also was Informed, and three infantry reg
iments and the naval reserve were Or
dered to Fire Island to preserve order. The
story of the landing of the passengers from
the " Cepheus" is to the effect that Sheriff
Darling of Suffolk county, upon hearing
of Governor Flowers determined action,
concluded that it was best to give up the
fight before the naval reserve or the troops
reached Babylon. Consequently when the
Cepheus approached the landing pier at
Fire Island he returned to the guard of
baymen upon the pier and informed them
that the injunction issued by Judge Bar
nard did not seem to be legal, and that con-
sequently he would advise them to go
quietly TO their homes. This advice the
baymen concluded to follow, and, entering
their catboats, sped away for Islip aud
Bayport. Afterwards all the passengers
were safely landed. A happy crowd of 500
persons it was that took supper at the hotel
that night. There was considerable confu-
troops returned to New York on Wednes-
day, leaving detachment at Babylon. One
company went to Fire Island on Thursday
and was heartily cheered by the Norman
MIA people. The latter was taken off the
island on Friday.
The New York board OF health announced
on Wednesday that from psychological
examination made by Professor Herman
Biggs on the bodies of several suspected
| cholera patients, there had been five deaths
| Aofa nhOla in, Xnr ,ffv
The names of those who died from cholera
are: Charles McAvoy, died September s.
Mrs. Sophia Wigman, died September 10 at
| 76S Eleventh avenue; William Wigman
husband of Sophia, died at the same adj
| dress on the following day; Minnie Levin
ger, child, died September II at All East
Forty-sixth street; Charlotte Beck, thirty
| died at eleven o'clock Tuesday morning at
| 1894 Second avenue. All these cases were
originally reported to the health depart
ment as suspected cholera and had been
under investigation. The physicians of the
health department were unable to say how
the cholera was contracted in each Of the
cases. Another case, on Second avenue,
was reported on Thursday.
| The tank steamer " Heligoland," which
arrived Tuesday night from Altoona on the
Elbe, little below Hamburg, had two
deaths on board among her crew from
cholera. The steamship Bohemia, twelve
days out from Hamburg, arrived at lower
anchored in the midst of the cholera fleet.
She had $50 immigrants in the steerage.
The captain reported that there had been
eleven deaths since leaving Hamburg, and
the cause of death, he said, in every case,
was diarrhpa. He asserted that there had
been no cholera aboard
Mayor Grant, on last week Friday, sent
letter to President Harrison requesting him
to prohibit further immigration to this
country from cholera-infected ports till all
fear of further introduction of the disease
into this country shall have disappeared
The Encouragement has assured the presi-
dent that he has power to take the step.
The steamship companies, however, have
promised not to send any more immigrants
from infected ports.
On Sunday the New York board of health
issued bulletin saying there had been no
new cases in the city for two or three days,
and no deaths since Tuesday. The steamer
passengers on Fire Island, Sunday after
noon. The board of health of Islp the
same day passed resolutions ordering the
sheriff of Suffolk county to take possession
and eject all occupants of Fire Island
within three days. Captain Cockrane, COM
manding the state militia there, telegraphed
Governor Flower and received the follow
ing: "The town of Islip board of health
has no jurisdiction over Fire Island. Pro-
tect with the force at your command
the quarantine lines established by DR..
Jenkins, health officer. If you require ad-
dtiohal force, call upon Adjutant-General
Porter, New York" Steamers are being
rapidly released from quarantine. Isolated
cases of cholera have been reported from
Baltimore and New Brunswick, \. j.