Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-09-03
CHOLERA ARRIVES.
A Plague-Infected Ship Reaches
New York From Hamburg.
Two Adults and Twenty Children Die aud
Arc Consigned to the Deep Cuipablo
ACT OF the Captain ia Conceal
Ing state OF Afiairs.

the steamship Moravia. Twenty
two deaths occurred during the ten
days she was on the ocean. Two
patients, both adults, are recovering
from the disease on board ship DR..
Jenkins is hopeful that he will be
able to keep the cholera away
from the city of New York.
He has ordered the transfer of the
Moravia's passengers to Hoffman's ISL
and and will not only make a personal
examination of the disease aboard the
ship, but he will also confer with the
health authorities of this city and con-
slider ways and means to keep it from
entering the city. More vessels will
arrive from Hamburg this week. 1t is
probable that further deaths will be re-
ported and cases in their worst form, it
is now conceded. may arrive within the
next few days. The situation is serious.
The Moravia, which arrived Tues
day night from Hamburg, had twenty
two deaths on board during the
passage. The ships surgeon called the
disease cholerine, but that is only
another name for the dreaded Asiatic
cholera. DIR. Jenkins said the results
were serious and he was fearful that
more deaths would follow. On August
Is the Moravia sailed. On the follow.
ing day the cholera broke out
and the first death took place
within twenty-four hours. The disease
spread rapidly among the ships 2s6
steerage passengers. There were nc
cabin passengers. The children suf-
fercd most and by August 30 the num-
Der OF deaths had reached the total OF
twenty-five OF these two were adults
and twenty children. They suffered
much pain and their deaths were those
which are peculiar to cholera. The
death list was made up of thrice ma
tives of Poland, three natives of Hesse,
one native of Austria and five of Prus-
sia- They were all buried at sea.
Notwithstanding her terrible record
of deaths or the voyage, her captain
passed the Moravia through Sandy
Hook, up the lower bay and through
the fleet of steamships which were
anchored off the boarding station. She
did not stop there but moved up several
hundred feet north of the feet within
about eight miles of the battery and
there dropped her anchor. No word
was sent ashore all night. nor did any
of the quarantine officers board her 1t
was carly in the morning when they
started on their usual round to board
the vessels anchored in the stream, and
the Moravia was the last one which
Physicians Talmadge and Sanborn
drew up alongside. 1t was then after
10 o'clock and it was known that the
Moravia was from an infected port.
Shortly after II o'clock the little tug
boat which does service for DR.. Jenkins
staff left the Moravia's side and steamed
for the big Teutonia. In the meantime
n yellow Whitehall boat rowed by two
men left the Moravia's side and pulled
for the beach. When she reached the
little wharf fronting the department
station William Seguine, an attache,
hurriedly left her and delivered sealed |
envelope to DR.. Jenkins, who opened it,
but betrayed no indications that there
was anything wrong. Then the tug
with DR.. Talmadge aboard came ashore
and there was a conference with the !,
health officer.
At that time, after leaving DR.. Jenk-
ins, DIR. Talmadge. who looked very
much perturbed, asserted that there
was nothing wrong with the Moravia
md that every one on board was enjoy
Ing good health. He left the quaran-
tine wharf and the tugs whistle seemed
to put an extra squirt of steam in the
effort to get along the plague stricken
craft. Apparently acting upon orders
from DIR. Talmadge which had been'given
on the first trip, there were signs of
activity aboard and the immigrants, rs
If expecting to be landed, could be seen
hurrying up and down the deck, look
ing in the direction of the Staten island
shore and occasionally waving hats and
Within five minutes after the Moravia
was boarded for the second time she
had hoisted her anchor, got up steam
and turned her bow in the direction of
the ocean. She made long detour
around the feet, hugging the Long
Island shore and passing out Of the
for the lower bay shortly
before noon. A phase of the
case of tue Moravia which de.
serves investigation and which
should be looked into with thorough
Macs is The action of the cantain of the
in continuing the voyage to
this country under the conditions which
prevailed on his ship If the disease
broke out on the day following his de-
parture from Hamburg why did he not,
those connected with the quarantine
ask, turn back instead OF
bringing the disease to new country?
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