Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-06
They Think at Cumberland That
Walther Died From Cholera.
DIFFERENT VIEWS HELD ELSEWHERE
Local Health Authorities Not
Alarmed.
IMMIGRANTS IN QUARANTINE


symptoms point to cholera as the disease
from which John walther. he immigr ant
Who reached here yesterday from New
York. died last night. The best physicians
say DIR. Obr, who has passed through
two epidemics of cholera here, Is positive
The examination IL not yet complete. He
was with Walther from his arrival untS
his death, and is certain that mis- disease
was cholera.
All precautions are being taken. Walther
vas buried at sunrise three miles from the
city.
The passengers who were with him here
are quarantined at Shaner's station, near
Pittsburg. There were other passengers in
the same car from New York who went on
west via Grafton. Their names and desti-
nation are unknown here, but all who
stopped of here are N quarantine.
Think Ii is Cholera MOrbus.
PITTSBURG. Pa, September 6-The i'm
migrant car from which a suspected vic
tim of cholera was taken at Cumberland.
Md, last night, is now sidetrackej at
Sfaner's station, few miles from here on
the Baltimore and Ohio. Nine immigrants
ere confined in the car. DIR. ]. Guy Nc
Candless. member of the state board of
health. and Health Officer Baker examined
the suspects today. They think the man
who died was suffering from cholera NOR
bus or cholerine. To avoid any risks how
ever, the will be kept in quarantine
for another twenty-four hours at least.
NEW YORK. September 6.-Nothing is
known at quarantine in relation to the
supposed case of cholera at Cumberland,
Nd The steamer Elbe arrived during Mon
day night and early Tuesday morning the
steerage passengers were all carefully in
spected and found we'll Capt. Won Goessel
and the ships surgeon made no report of
any sickness during the voyage.
GustaSe Schwab, agent for the North
Germsn Lloyd Steamship Company, on
whose steamer the Elbe Jonn +. Walther
vas passenger, scouts the idea that
Walther was a victim of that disease.
Had II been Asiatic cholera" said Mr..
Schwab. The disease would have made its
appearance long before. The period of in
cubation is seldom more than six days, and
80 either Walther or the person from whom
he contracted the disease should have de-
Neloped 1t on the steamer"
Surgeon General wyman's Views.
Early this morning a telegram reached
Surg. Gen. Wyman of the marine hospital
service from Health officer Duke of Cum
berland. Md, announcing the death there
last night of John p. Walther, d German
immigrant, under circumstances leading to
the belief that he was afflicted with AsiatIc
cholera This is the man who was being
sent, with lumber of other immigrants, to
.he west iron new York, and VINO are now
pelnS detaflrd under quarantine regula-
tions at Pittsburg. DIR. Wyman Immediate
ly wired DIR. Duke to investigate the case
thoroughly and TO send him further par
uculars as to the disease and the results of
the post-mortem examination. So far no
reply has been received, but DIR. Wyman
has no fears Of the spread of cholera In
this country. lie said to a Star reporter
today:
II do rot believe from what / have so far
heard that this man d. of the Asiatic
cholera. But thorough investigation will be
made,an we Will not remit in our efforts un-
Ill there has been absolutely negatlon devel-
cped. There is now no cholera In Bremen
which Is the port from which Walther is said
TO have come, nor has there been any there
Their, too, there is medicine that would
brace up a cholera patient SO that he would
pass the quarantine inspection as 1t is said
was done to this man. When a person has
genuine Aslttic cholera II is apparent to any
meulcal Oi1cer and no amount of dosing
can conceal the fact, especially when the
case Is so far along that the man has to be
put on on the road to die. There has been
no chOlera or even any disease found
among the other men from the Elbe now
detained at Pittsburg, and they are being
held there Tor further developments. / have
Ao' heard anything yet from Pittsburg."
The General Situation.
nat Is the situation with regard TO the
disease in Europe now?' asked the re-
porter.
1t Is rather the increase in Russia
and is getting over into western Europe
But so far 1t has been confined to the more
southern portions of that region, and is
most prevalent in Austro- Hungary, rather
than on the northern coast This has kept
IL away from the ports whence the imni-
grants come TO these shores, and as there
Is a rigid consular inspection on that side
as wen as a most thorough quarantine
service on this, | am absolutely certain
IL nf Oh hos
inside of America this year. There has
been two cases i believe caught at quar-
antine, one of them being at the Delaware
Ireakwater, but they have not amounted To
anything. 1t will be practically imDossi-
bic for the epidemic to get in unless there
Is a very general let down on the part of
the health officers and the consuls''
How does this epidemic conpare with
that OK TWO years ago. in regard 10 timer
1t Is now much later than the time when
the scare was at its height in 1882 BY this
time. Indeed. by the first Of September W..
were practically over the worst of the panic
and IL looks now 10 me that the great dan
ger Of cCntagi0n is past
DIR. Wyman added that he realized that
the people OF Washington had good cause
10 be alarmed VIXEN cholera IS reported at
Cumberland. on account Of the chances of
direct contamination of the water supulv
by means Of the river which flows mas,
both cities: yet, he added. there is no real
reason for alarm, and he advises the peo-
pie here TO put the matter out of their
minds and To pursue their regular avoca-
tiOns without fear of the cholera. If the
case at Cumberland shall prove to have
been genuine every preCautiOn Will be taken,
In addition to those that have already been
taken, to prevent the contamination Of the
water. The fact that the man got so far
inland Is not cause for alarm. and the
chances are vastly in favor OF the case be-
Ing one Of mere cholera morbus. which pro-
duceS certain superficial symptoms that in
some particulars resemble these of the
Asiatic plague.
Nyman's OhiriaI Denial.
Surg. Gen. Wymdn Of the marine hospital
service reported t. the Treasury Depart
nCnt today that the case of cholera re-
ported at Cumberland, Md. is not cholera,
but merely cholera mOrbus.
Health officer Not Alarmed.
Health officer Woodward Is not at all
alarmed a; the possibility Of a cholera
epidemic in Washington, resulting from the
death of a German immigrant al Cumber-
hHd. He said TO Star reporter this af-
ternOOn that he had not yet heard any
thing about the case further than the
ports urintea in the payers. but he vas