The evening world., 1894-09-12
6 PASSENGERS HELD.
Excitement on the Steamship
Werra at Quarantine,
Immigrant Lucchis Sudden and
Mysterious Illness.
Sent to Hoffman Island with His
Party for Observation.

Considerable excitement was caused
among the ia cabin and 2lS steerage pas
sengers on the North German Lloyd
steamship Vera when on arriving at
Quarantine, from Genoa, Monday.
the Health officer sprang on board and
began making close examination of
nearly all the passengers.
AS this is the usual custom when an
ocean vessel arrives. the captain and
crew thought nothing of It, 1t was diff
ferent. however, when six of the steer
age passengers-two men. one woman
and three children-were ordered to stand
aside for a more careful examination.
Whatever the health officers saw In
their appearance. certain 1t Is that the
six passengers referred to were taken
off the vessel and sent down the bay to
Hoffman Island.
There they wi. be carefully watched
and IL nothing of dangerous illness
manifests itself, they will be allowed
to land in few days.
In fact, the Health officers gave out
a, statement to-day that nothing allied
the passengers beyon a bad attack OF
diarrhoea. 1t is regarded as peculiar,
on the island II it is only a case OF
diarrhoea, the question is asked why
are they not allowed to land.
The secrecy observed by the Health
| officials is also commented upon, al
though the Vera reached here on Mon
day, not a word of the removals was al
lowed to leak out until to-day. There
ments made by the health officers and
the ships physicians.
! According to the Health Officers, they
were Informed ty DIR. Dursch, the ships
| physician, that every one of the Six
passengers became i'll when about nine
| days out from Genoa. In fact, that II
was upon the latter's statement that the
| passengers were detained. Not only
| does DR.. Dursch deny this, but he goes
further and says he knew nothing OF
| five of the removals until reaching the
! dock at Hoboken.
named Egziacca Eucchi He had. ac-
cordinS to DR.. Dursch, been one of the
heal tne On board during the voyage.
approached him. the man became sick
to his stomach. and the resulting symp
Ss5s such TIA, The
the mans pulse they were by no mean!
| treasured
The woman. the other man referred to
and three children were all OF one party
and while no alarming symptoms wer,
seen in any OF the latter, IL was de
cided to take all to the island for inves
| tigation.
There was at first considerable dis.
cussion as to whether or not the Werra
itself as well as all on board. should
be detained. This. of course, produced
the liveliest kind of protest, which event.
| ually succeeded.
Evidently the health officials did not
consider the illness, whatever'it was. OF
| a particularly contagious nature. 9th.
erWise,, they would undoubtedly have
held all
The Werra, after a few hours, was al.
lowed to proceed on her way. ard later
the passengers were landed at her pier
in Hohoken.
When seen by an Evening World
reporter on board the Vera, at heI
dock. at Hoboken, to-day, DIR. Dursct
-, You can see by my journal, that on
the voyage from Geneva | did not have
a single case of Illness to report. The
passengers were all healthy, and before
coming on board had been examined by
a competent board of experts.
about two days before reaching New
York one of the women In the steerage
became Ill with a fever There was
nothing serious about II, but she insisted
on drinking lot of ice-water, which did
not improve her condition. She was still
In the fever when we reached quaran-
tine, and / considered 1t my duty to noti-
! fy DR. Jenkins. / did so.
DIR. Jenkins himself, with two of his as
sistants examined the woman, and as q
matter of precaution DIR. Jenkins said mt
would take her OFF. He said nothing fur
was more surprised In my life when, or
reaching our dock. | was for the first
time informed that five other passengers
two men and three children, had alsC
been removed. i do not know what dag
nosis DR. Jenkins has made in any of the
cases, but ] am positive there is not
the least thing to be alarmed about. The
illness can only be such as might harper
on board any boat or on land, nor can II
be the least bit contagious"