Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-12
TO-DAlaS TEHEGRAPHIC NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
Cholera.

prevented lfOul iduuIuS OH rlIc loidhu
by the violence Of a mob who threaten
ed TO burn the hotel and who so fright
ened the pilot, who was to take the
steamboat bearing the Normannia's
passengers over the bar, that he refused
to do his duty and the unhappy passen-
gers were transferred back to the Ston
ington and the New Hampshile. All
the passengers passed a most miserable
night on board the vessels and as pro-
visions are not easily cooked and as
the sleeping accommodations were not
of the best many of the detained people
broke down completely and wept at
their fate while bewailing the apparent
rnismanagement of the authorities.
There was only one death from chol-
era yesterday and that occurred on
board the Scandal. There have BEEN
no cases in New York. and the disease
seems to be about conimed 10 the Scan
dia.
A dispatch from Babylon, i. l., 81.
Every one in the village is armed and
will resist any invasion. Justice ofthe
Peace Jas. b. Cooper says that the
MOTEL and all its surroundings will lie
burned to the ground if landing is at
tempted.
DR. Jenkins has just announced that
he has 80 armed deputies at Fire Island
scattered among the armed mob from
Islip ready TO act i'll case of an out
break
Fifty armed detectives were sent to
Fire Island early this morning TO pre-
tect the Normannia's first and second
cabin passengers, who will be transfer
red from the steamboat Ssonington and
Cepheus to that place today.
Gov. Flower arrived at the Wind
sor Hotel at $50 O'Clock this morning
Immediately on arriving he began his in
vestigation of the cholera troubles, par
ticularlythc situation at FireIsiand. The
Governor says he anticipates no further
trouble from Fire Island The State,
he said, would take session at once.
He is prepared to take any step, no
matter how stringent, TO keep The
cholera away from the city.
Judge Barnard Of the supreme Court,
Brooklyn, acted to-day in the Fire Isl
and matter and issued an Injunction.
Itrestrains Gov. Flower, DR.. jenkins
and others from landing quarantined
passengers on Fire Island This APP
plies to the town of Islip in particular.
Gov. Flower issued Il proclamation
this morning before he WAS aware Of
the action Of Judge Barnard ordering
the sheriff at Islip to resist any attempt
ed interference with The landing Of the
passengers on Fire Island
During the morning several bay
boats arrived at Muncey's dock, Fire
Island, just within the State property
limits, and landed number of special
constables from Islip and Bay Shore,
who rendezvoused at Muncey's saloon
in readiness to resist the landing of the
Normannia's passengers DR.. Vought
ordered them off the grounds, but they
refused to 90 and demanded to know
by what authority he acted. 1t being
asserted that DR.. Vought had no writ
ten authority, John Sire, who was in
charge of the constables, refused to
leave, and the crowd broke into de-
risive cheers as DR.. Vought took his
departure for the hotel. Dr.. Eought
has ordered Muncey's saloon, in which
the crowd of bay men is coDgregated,
to be closed. The steamboat Cepheus
was reported TO be off Fire Island inlet
at 1l:05 a. n.
The example set by the two Kings
Daughters, Hiss Helen E. Hill and
Miss Alice P. Lyon, both nurses from
the Presbyterian hospital here, who,
on Saturday, went 10 Swinburnc Is
land as volunteers, 70 nurse cholera
patients, has been followed by the
Jesuit Fathers and by the Salvation
Army. Both the Jestits and Saliva
tionists are now prepared to send
church soldiers into the field to meet
the invading enemy.
More than hundred South Bay cat
boats, sharpies, sloops and other small
boats, each with ten or more men and
boys on board, were under weigh at
daybreak this morning and sailing
from all points on the great South Bay
toward Fire Island. In all the boats
every man who had or could borrow
gun or pistol brought it with him and
the entire llotilla carried perhaps q
thousand armed men. Of these five or
six hundred came from Patchogu, Say
vile and the country near them, 80
from Bay Shore, and perhaps as many
from Babylon. Every man on. board
boat was either ..bayman" or sym
pathizer and fully determined to pre-
vent by force, if necessary, the landing
of the quarantined cabin passengers on
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