Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-14

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! ing Governor Flower and Health Officer
Jenkins from using Fire Island as
quarantine station. Judges Pratt ana
! Dykman voted to vacaUe the injunction,
Judge Barnard dissenting.
New YORK, September 15.-The Peg
asus left Pier SO, North river, at 12:45
| o. m, for Fire Island. She had on
! board 400 members Of the Sixty-ninth
regiment, $50 of the Naval Reserve and
| in tow two launches from the navy
yard. She carries Calling gun.
QUARANTINE, September 13.-The
/ Pegasus passed down with the Naval
Reserve on board. They go to Fire
! Island. Dr.. jenkins is standing watch
ing them in high glee.
FIRE ISLAND, September 13.-When
! Dr.. jenkins, on board the steamer
! Ripple, reached the Cepheus and an
nOunced who he was, hundred pass
| engerS, including women, crowded along
/ the rail shouting: "YOu scoundrel!
| "You ruffian!' "All this is your doing"
/ After they had Quieted down the doctor
read telegram received by him from
/ Governor Flower saying that the in
! junction would be dissolved at eleven
/ o'clock to-day and that troops would see
! that there was no interference with the
! landing OF the passengers at Fire Island.
NEW York, September 13.-At half
! past nine o'clock this morning the sit
ua.ion Of affairs at Fire Island and in
this city is grave, but the ending only
| In one direction. A crisis has arrived
and will be met oy the State authorities
with troops.
The Cepheus with her cargo of help
! less women and delicate children is
still anchored in the channel of Fire
Island, and their sufferings during the
night are described as having been
most intense. Men paced the deck all
night or reclined upon the bare decks
while snarching few hours OF restless
sleep.
The women and children huddled
! together, crying and praying, In the
warmest corners to be found, or slept
| the sleep of exhaustion upon the seats
| of the excursion boat, if lucky enough
/ TO secure such points OF vantage.
| Delicate ladies tried 10 rest upon COM
| forIless chairs and on the floor and oil
! bitterly bewailed their harsh fate and
! the GeyliSh hard heartedness Of the bay
men of Long Island. 1t was only after
the most earnest prayers that the latter
| allowed some food to be sent to the half
famished passengers whom they had
condemned 10 either starve or go back
/ ~, Cola hnnnar nd
ure would certainly, it would seem,
! have developed any cholera germs which
might have strayed 0mong the unhappy
saloon passengers of the Normannia;
but as YET no case of that disease. has
been reported among them or among
the second cabin passengers VINO are
sharing their fate.
But many of them will suffer for
! months, aye and for years as result of
their cruel experience off Fire Island.
| These helpless people, the prisoners Of
the State, have been treated by these
Long Islanders as badly as Shipwrecked
crews have been treated by the SayageS
of unCivihzed Islands and yet the Island
or sand bar on which the bay men re-
fuse to permit these unfortunate people
to set foot is situated five miles by
| water from the nearest settlement.
But to-day promises to bring matters
to a head in some way or other. 1t is
reported that the naval reserve Is as
sem0ling at Pier SO, North River, and
the old Fighting Sixty-ninth Regi-
ment is announced to be assembling at
It's armory. II will thus be seen that
peace will be restored at Fire Island,
aud the long-SutIering passengers Of the
Normannia will be placed in safety
either at Fire Island or on board the
| steamship Wielaud, of the Hamburg
American line, which has been secured
Tor their accom- notation by Seth Low,
President OF Columbia College and also
nthe member of the Chamber OF Com
merce, after whom Camp Low at Sandy
/ Hook has been named out of apprecia-
ton Of his efforts in behalf OF the quar-
antiRed people.
A noble sentiment in our citizens
! hearts is now aroused and pleads for
the immediate rescue Of the hundreds
Of imperilled people anchored of Fire
Island in a frail excursion boat whose
toughest voyage only up to the present
! has been 10 take summer excursions to
| COney Island. The proceedings of the
bay men are on all sides caSsed as in
human and as a disgrace to our ciyiliza-
tlon and manhood.
Camp Low, Sandy Hook, is not yet
ready for the reception of Quarantined
Storage passengers, but it is expected
work on that refuge will be completed
within d nay or so more at least.
New YORK, September 13.-The Goth
regiment and the naval reserve battal-
! lion embarked at about IL a. IL. for Fire
Island. 1t is now announced that the
l4th and the 47th regiments left for Fire
Island by the Long Island railroad at
I ,iol,aL this morning