The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-09

thoroughness. Along with some 500
others they wero taken back to the
Normannia in apparently excellent
health and the following day they were
prostrated with Asiatic cholera or
something dangerously like it. Ono OF
the health officials spoke OF these new
cases rather lightly as il they were OF
littlo importance and not cholera at all.
NOT a LAUGHING MATTER.
at was all tho result OF washing
those follows" he said, laughing. 1.-THE
shock OF such au unfamiliar experience
was too much for them. You can de-
vclop pretty mitch any disease by
treating these unwashed emigrants
with water. They catch cold, got
cramps and diarrh@a aud that Is all
there is to it. II was not choierine,
but bathline."
That is all very we'll, but il such is
really the explanation why, as several
Indignant gentlemen asked, why send
these mon if they had no cholera to
the very place OF all others where they
are most likely to contract it, Which
ever way one looks at it tho matter is
not one which calls for laughter. These
eight men, prisoners on Swinburne Is
land, are not laughing; neither are the
passengers on the Normannia. DR..
jenkins says that these doubtful"
cases even though they are sent to
Swinburne Island will be carefully iso-
lated from the other cholera cases
there, but any one who knows how
small this island is will be scarcely re-
assured by that statement.
Suppose those eight men are quite
well in the morning and show that they,
did not have cholera at oil, what will
you do with thcm,"
"Send them back to Hoffman Island,
wash and fumigate them again and put
them on the steamer"
"And suppose they contract the real
cholera meanwhileW
Tho doctor shrugged his shoulders
and made no further answer.
Whatever these men had, iti is certain
that they were very i'll and the news OF
n death among them may be expected
before the day is over. The protests Of
the Normannia and Rugia's saloon pas.
sengers against their apparently cruel
detention on cholera. ships, when, in
the case OF the former, the disease Is
confined to the crew, and when, in tho
second case, the sickness seems only to
attack the steerage passengers, is caus-
ing the New York newspapers to urge
very strongly that the work OF transfer
ring these people to tho camp to be
pitchedat Sandy Hook should be hasten
ed in every way possible. Consequent
ly Sandy point will look like a great
military encampment tonight, if the
information given by Secretary OF the
Treasury Chas. Foster at tho Fifth
Avenue hotel last night is correct. Mr..
Foster is enthusiastic about the matter
about the matter and his enthusiasm is
shared in degree by DR.. Hamilton and
Secretary Of the Navy Tracy, with whom
Mr.. Foster last evening had confer
ence.
"Dr Hamilton aud DR.. jenkins" " said
Mr. Foster, will go to Sandy Hook to-
morrow to inspect the ground. II they
find the place in good sanitary .condt-
ton, and II other conditions are favora-
ble-and l have no doubt everything
will be found satisfactory-they will
decide to make the Hook the site OF the
camp Of the refugees Of the cooped-up
cabin passengers OF the steamships now
detained, and Of those that are still to
come from infected ports.
THE SECRETARY IN EARNEST.
81 have sent numerous dispatches to
the war department asking them to
have things in readiness. By nightfall
We will have 500 on the ground. BY
Friday night the erection Of barracks
will be so undor way that ali tho pas
sengers contained on the infected ships
may be landed at once and find shelter
in them, You see we arc rushing
things. It would bo inhuman not to
mako all possible haste for the relief OF
the suffers. In NIL likelihood the Read
ing railroad will begin its work OF relay
ing its track on the point at the same
time. Their track we'll furnished will
greatly facilitate tho transportation OF
supplies. II tho plague continues for
any length OF time tho railroad will OF
course bc used by refugees, Rs soor as
they arc discharged.
II do not know who will pay for the
erection OF tonts, barracks etc., and
whother it will be the state or federal
government or tho steamship compa-
nies. However, therc need be no pres
Ont trouble on that score. a wealthy
gentleman callod on me aud offered TO
nl:dertnko nil construction and stand
al! the expense and take his chances OF
getting his money back from the party
liablc therefore. am not at liberty 10
give you tho gentlemen 9 name. dH Is
not n contractor"
IN spite of whGt Secretary Fostcr
said last night regarding tho collection
OF Sandy Hook as tho site OF tho camp
Of refuge, DR.. jenkins last night sent to
Mr. Foster letter anying that the most
auitahle place for isolation would be
Fro Island.
The excited friends Of tho cabin pas.
sensers on the quarantincd steamships
we're going about the city yesterday
irving TO charter, buy or beg steam
boats on which the prisoners could be
removed from the infected vessels. and
kept until all danger OF cholera had
passed. They went 70 the offices OF
nearly all the sound lines and secured
options on several steamers at eXtrav'
agant priccs.
WORSE THAN THOUGHT.
A dispatch received here yesterday
from Dr. seibert, tho well known Ger
man physician OF this city, who went
to Europe recently on behalf Of the
board OF health OF Now York, would
seem to indicate that the situation there
is much worse than expected. The dis
patch referred to is addressed to DR.
Cyrus Edison, the sanitary supcrintend'
eut, and says: