New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-09
CHOLERA AT THE GATES.
UNDER CAREFUL INSPECTION
HE STEAMER RUSSIA DETAINED AT QUAR-
ANTINE.

an LINE.
FIVE DEATHS on THE VOYAGE FROM HAM.
BuGG TWO PASSENGERS STILL sICK-NO
DANGER or THE PLAGUE SPREAD.
ING. As PROMPT AND EFFEC.
TIVE MEASURES HAVE
BEEN TAKEN.
Captain G. Schmidt, of the Hamburg American
! steamship Russia which arrived at Quarantine
yesterday, fourteen days out from Hamburg,
reports that five Of his passengers died during
the voyage, and that two more are now i'll. At
least four Of these seven are believed TO
be due to Asiatic cholera.
| The Russia is the second vessel to arrive at
! NewYork this year with cholera on board. The
| first the steamship Karamania, which ar
rived here from Naples on August 3. and re-
ported two mysterious deaths while at sea.
Her passengers were isolated Swinburne
and Hoffman islands. and although number
of them died there the plague did not get be-
yond those limits. over nine weeks
have passed since then. and although
steamship after steamship has arrived here
loaded with immigrants from cholera ports, so
strict has been the examination Of the imIni-
grants before they embarked that only the Kar-
germs past it.
The Russia is to be isolated just az the Kara
mania was and there is not the slightest dan
ger of the disease spreading beyond the limits
Of her passenger list She carries i5l passengers
in ALL thirteen in the first cabin. twenty-eght
in the second and 40 in the steerage. Before
leaving Hamburg the passengers were all sub
jected to the usual five days detention and dis
Infection 4 close examination of them and Of
the vessel was then made by Dr White Of the
Marine Hospital Service: Dr. Homann. Of the
Emigration Board Of Hamburg. and DR. Hon-
man. the ships physician. and she was pro-
nounced to bc in frst-class condition. The pas
sengers come from all parts Of northern and
central Europe but are mostly from Germany
The disease seems to have been brough; on
board by the family Of Gotfried and Alwine
Siubhe stccrage passengers of Borschen Meek
enburg With them were their children Carl
and Ida and young woman relative named
Bertha Scher
THE FIRST pE,TH NOT FROM CHOLERA.
.l"4sa sailed from Hamburg Septem-
bcr q on the next day Anna Katrina Luthge.
q second cabin passenger forty-six years old.
Of Altona Switzerland. taken ILL., and died
on the evening Of the same day. II Is said
that she was weak and sick when she went on
board. and had been strongly advised not to
undertake a sea voyage. She persisted. now
ever and her death resulted. probably from
the effects Of seasickness her enfeebled
frame
Tho third day out Ida Stubbe one year old.
was taken i'll with darrhoea and vomiting. and
died the next afternoon at o'clock Dr. Hon-
man diagnosed her as cholera infantum
but this optimistic opinion received severe
stock two days later on Sept' nber 80 when
Ida's brother. Carl. nine years Old ana het
relative and nurse. Bertha Schell. eighteen years
old. were both taken down with similar symp-
toms Bertha lived five days. dying early on
the morning of October . Carl. on the con-
trary. got better and is now practically we'll
SUDDEN DENTH ~ The FIEST r\BIN
The next case was that Of Augusta Thomas
4 nrst-class passenger. twenty years old. who
was also attacked by severe vomiting and died
within few moments Her death was sudden
and when it occurred the passengers began to
look at each other in fear. wondering who would
l.. tho next victir. Few credited the statement
made. by Augus'as brother. Friedrich Thomas,
who sail that she was subject To heart disease.
and that to it her death was due.
Nex: ON October o. Ida Au". a steerage pas
songcr thirty years old fell il. with the same
SYMPTOMS. dlarrhoea and vomiting. by this time
an old story 10 those od board. she was sui
livinr when the Russia reached port. ana was
taken ~ Swinburnc Island last night
Later on the same day. October D. Wilhelm
Schnut;. 4 steeragc passenger fifteen years oId |
was taken sick and died on October = lie hhd
No cholcraic symptoms. ana )r hoHnl"n pe
l,evcs his death was due to crysipelas oi the
feet and legs.
10 rgAN~rEE THF PANSrN"EE> TO-DAY.
This ends the list To-day the surviving pas
s.neers. with the exception # Ida Aue. Will be
transferred To Hoffman Island and placed under
careful observation and treatment The Russia
viii be- disnfcctcd and whitcwash"d. Her bed |
ding and light equipment will probably bee |
burned Or. jenkins refused 10 make any stat
mont for public cation until bactctlologi'ai eN-
ouinatinr could br made. This Will probably BE- |
done this morning.
LIST or rAs>ENGrGS.
Following is "A list Of the first and second |
cabin passengers on the Russia:
,,th.,ina Imcthcr. otto iiuether. Felix Boz
iartinas Mathildc Kesnghoeft Veronica Dull.
n.rtha Fischer Rosa Fischer, Waldemar Cor
~, carl Uoyus Clemens Haring. Anna Iaring. |
Emil IIubcrti Dr. Ernst Nchmcr, NIhelm !
klinke Johanna Kettlrr Juan kulikowski. |
louis kicnzle Hcdwig Lange johanna Maasr'
t,,,ra Meier Sigsmund Misunas. Alexander
r,,,l.,vslxv NaN Sauberlich. Heinrich StOf1reEeh.
rar,lin. Stoffregcn Emma Schneider Blanca
Zinder Jan Zindcr Edward Schrader, Martin
Strack .lrs. Martin Suack, MISS Is. simon
Lima Stildig. George Sch"!k" Juila Scnnch'-
mann Christian Schllchtmann, George Ther-
auf Elc Thesis Friedrich Thomas. Robert Won
Witte. Alexander fucker.
THE CHOLERA IN SOUTHERN EUROPE
THIRTY -FOUR NEW CASES AND FOURTEEN
DEATHS At rALERMO-MANY CASES
,noT Nd BILBAO.