The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-25
Remarkable Mortality In Vad8r-
lands Storage,
POOR FOLK OF HUNGARY.
Bodies Dropped Overheard oil
Nights to Avoid Panic.

Ttr Victims We're III Fed. III chad and
nlp2dlcSs and the Stress OF a Wnd
Winter voyage Was Too Much--COuld
Fat Nothing and Responded Poorly
in Stimulants-Two Doctors From
she cabin Assist the ships surgeon
ana Agree That ScaIckness Caused
Death and That Sanitary Conditions
IN Sadcrland's Sfcerage We're Good.
Ton immigrants died Of seasickness
coming over the rough winter seas aboard
the Red Star liner Yaderland in last night
from Antwerp and Dover. The bodies Of
two. dead less than half day were brought
70 port The others were weighted with
Crate bars and were dropped over the ships
side ar midnight so that the other travellers
tween decks, hundreds with nerves I'M
strung and m. might not he put into panic
hy the spectacle Of wholesale burials
Capt X G EhoR said il was one Of the
most tumuituous trips in his experience
j. was hard for him and his officers and
the ships surgeon Dr. Waersegers, to be-
exhaustion following scasickness, and two
physicians who were cabin passengers.
pr Sidney X. Simon OF New Orleans and
Dr. William Ackermann OF Milwaukee,
we're called into consultation on Friday.
Three men died that day, one three days
before, and dozen were in hospital unable
70 take any nutriment.
All the sick ones had been in a compart-
ment forward and as the seas were nearly
dead ahead the liner pitched violently
and they were badly shaken. A fast as
the patients were discovered forward they
were removed aft
rrs. Simon and Aokermnnn examined
those who appeared to be desperately i'll
and looked at the bodies OF tHo of the dead
They conourred with the ships surgeon
as 10 the cause Of death and in the declara-
ton that the victims we're Of low vitality.
having been poorly nourished In their
native province In Hungary.
The lives OF some OF them might have
be1n saved II they had been able TO retain
feoti but their weakened condition pre-
vented this. The ships surgeon tried 10
revive them 10y hypOdermic injections Of
srychnne and ether and by the counter irri-
taton II cupping. This treatment was sue
cessfnl in several cases whore the vitality Of
the patients was fair, but these who sue
cumbei were anemic, They were also
poorly clothed and had had seven hours
rde in crowded cars before they boarded
the ship at Antwerp. Some Of them had
braced up on liquor to prepare for the rigors
Of the tnp, and these became seasick the
first few hours after the Vaderand left
port The names and ages Of those who
died and the date Of their deaths follow:
ABRAHAM LIVESTOCK, 10. Jan. II.
JOHANN FE,SCoHIE. 81 Jan 20
NtRTK SrEPHAR. 90 Jan 70.
lIoHls Dr3oNITs, 20. Jan 20
J4Nts ROTTEN. -. Jan. -
JtSos koyACs H. jan y.
iipFi. NoykK. -. Jan. .?
ioREN WEBFH. H. Jan -
GAspAR MoLNNT. p. jan q.
lANos HEvFsi, 81. Jan -
A patient who seemed near death on
Monday began to improve when the steam
ship ran into comparatively smooth seas,
and was able TO get up yesterday and walk
about when the liner jlerthed Hevesi and
Mouat died respectively at midday and
af 80 NJ Yesterday I'iitif bodies were
brought TO port partly to enable Health
og.cer Doty to determine the nature Of
theIr Illness DR.. Doty examined the bodies
and decided thst deaUi was not due to
contagious or Injections disease.
Dr- Ackeumlun end Simon said that
the Storage Of TIE Naderland was in
perfect sanitary coalition, but that they
did not wonder at unusual sickness among
the immigrants in quarters forward. az even
the cabin Passengers were seasick on the
most turbulent day, Thursday, when there
were hurricane squalls Of snow and sleet
and bail aud ihe ship dipped deep into the
lofty combet-, sometimes smotherng her
forward decks. On this day nobody vent
ured ont. oven on the high and sheltered
part, Of the ship. There were forty patients
IN hospital and nearly everybody in tine
Storage Compartments forward was in.
FIancoHe. Stephan and Dugovits. who
died on Friday, we're buried twenty-four
hours liter. sister OF one Of them was
tod Tat she might attend the burial Of
her brother If she wanted 20, but she was
herself so III that she did not care 10 leave
her berth. All the burials were perfume
tory, the weather not permitting any Sere-
mony
Most Of the dead we're coming here 10
work as aborers. Capt Ehof and DR.
Naetsegers said they had had personal
noSledge of other deaths in the steerage
due 20 continued seasicISness, but never
before had heard Of ton persons uccumbing
10 u on one ship. Before lea wing the ship
Doctors Simon and Ackermann signed me
following
lh,s is to certify thar upon the request
q The authorities on board this steamship
We lh' Undersigned made an examination
Of many Of the patients and an inspection
OF their quarters, and find the latter in the
rest oi cpndiuon. To the best Of our knowl-
edge We believe the fatalities to be due to
'oe exhaustion attending rough voyage
una in'thT wish to state that the patients
received every attention possible.
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