Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-09
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THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
The Death Signal Flies at
Quarantine.
The DEATHS on SWINDURnE ISLAND
Steamer Stonington Will
Relieve Normannia.
FUNERAL OF DANIEL DoUGHfR1Y.
Sullivan and Party Leave
for New York.
THE YELLOW FLAG AGAIN

The Death Signal Flies at Quaran-
tfne-Threc Victims on Swinburne
Island-The Sound Steamer Ston.
ington Secured for the Use OF Pas
sengers of Incoming Steamships
Detained at QuaraRtine-Fifty.t
Deaths and Sixty.nine New Cases
in Paris. ....t
New YeRK, Sept. 8.-Dr. Jenkins' new
order for advising the Quarantine officials
at Fort Wadsworth of the appearance of
any new cases of cholera on the three
Hamburg steamers in the lower bay by
the noihting Of the yellow flag went into
effect this morning. About 10 o'clock the
flag was hoisted to the foremssthead of
the steamer Rugia, and soon after the
same colors appeared on the Normannia.
The news from the Normannia this
morning was, as usual, very meagre and
indefinite, and no details had been re-
ceived, either at Quarantine or in this city,
of the fresh outbreak on that vessel, e1-
cept the simple fact indicated by the hoist
ing of the yellow flag at her foremasthead.
It is not certain that the sickness on the
Normannia, which is no doubt among the
crew, ia cholera. DR.. Jenkins has not yet
said that the sick sailors taken from the
ship yesterday suffered from that disease,
and aprivate letter from the Normannia
says that those taken off the day before
did not have choleraic symptoms.
DR.. SsnbOrn, one of DR.. jenkins depu
ties, ia stationed permanently on the Nor
MAMMA and with DR.. Breuer of the steamer
is attending to the vessels passengers.
The yellow flag was also raised on Hoff
man Island. At Swinburne Island one of
the sick emigrants died last night after the
health officers had left. The victim was a
child.
THE sToNINGToN SECURED.
This afternoon Mr.. Boas said he had re-
ceived word from Health Officer Jenkins
that J. Pierpont Morgan had placed the
sound steamboat Stonington at the dispos-
al of the Quarantine authorities for the use
of the cabin passengers of the incoming
steamships detained at Quarantine. The
Hamburg American company will fit
the Stonington up at once, and it is
the cabin passengers of the Normannia by
tomorrow afternoon at the latest. Mr..
Boas said that, according to the owners,
she could be made to accommodate 500
passengers, as she had cabin accommads-
tions for 252, and by utilizing other space
it was thought all the Normahnia passen
gers could be accommodated on her. The
Stonington is at present lying at New
London, but her sister ship, the Narrsgan-
sett, is in this city, and measurements
will be taken of her so that everything
may be got ready as quickly as possible.
The following is the copy of Mr.. Nor
CAMS letter to Health Officer Jenkins, Of
fering him the use of the steamboat:
New YoRK Cry. September 8, 1899.
DR.. w. T. Jenkins, Quarantine
The emergency which exists for extend
ing Immediate relief to the cabin passen-
gers on the Normannia and other ships
confined at lower quarantine has led me
to charter from the Stonington company
the steamboat Stonington belonging to
that line, which hereby place at your dis
posal for use of cabin passengers from
ships now detained or which may be here
after detained at Quarantine during the
esent crisis. Please notify me at once
if you are prepared to accept this boat for
the purpose mentioned and are willing
to extend the relief to the passengers
which the boat affords.
]. PIERPoNT MORGAN.
DR.. Jenkins received this letter this af-
ternoon, and said he would accept it and
transfer the Normannia's passengers to-
morrow.