Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-03
Passage of People rom Cars Domain
Through Hamburg is Prohibited,
MUsCOWTES DENY PRESENCE OF DISEASE
Health Depar m,nt again Says There is
No Lholsra in The Empire,
SECOND CASE is FUND At HAMBURG
Infected Area is widening i'm East
Prussia and Government IL
Sending Its Best Men
TO work.

BERLIN, Sept. 2.-7:4O p. m.--The record
tonight stands at ffty-one cholera cases
and nineteen deaths, a steady increase and
a high percentage of mortality, The most
cause for uneasiness for America is that
second case exists at Hamburg. 1t was
officially reported late today that laborer
in ST. Georges hospital where the Rus
sian emigrant died. has cholera, but, it is
added. the seizure is of milder form
than the previous one. Two of the other
fresh cases are in East Prussia, indicating
that the infected area has widened.
The imperial health office, shown by
the statement made today to the Associ-
ated Press Is confident that it has the
disease in hand The most recently re-
! ported victims are among the Russian
| river men in quarantine. Germanys two
greatest bacteriologists. Profs. Robert
| Koch and f. Won Leden are out of the
country, one in Africa and the other In
| the Tyrol. Prof Adolph Kafka. also an
! eminent man, is Prof Kochs successor as
| head Of the Institute of Infectious Diseases
and he has gone to the infected district to
direct the measures to conhne the disease.
! The institute of infectious diseases Will
/ be open all night examining secretions
taken from the digestive tubes Of persons
who have died under circumstances sug-
/ Festing cholera.
The ministry Of the interior has issued
an order covering all Prussia requiring
| physicians Immediately after death of any
suspected patient to send messenger with
sections Of the alimentary canal to the
institute of infectious diseases for thorough
examination.
Bar Russian Emigrnnts.
| HAMBURG, Sept. 2-On account of the
| appearance of cholera the police authori-
ties have forbidden the transportation
through Hamburg of Russian emigrants
until further notice. The Hamburg -Ameri-
can Steamship company has issued instruc-
tions to all its Russian agencies to refuse
steerage tickets to Russian emigrants.
PARIS. Sept. 2.-Prof Ellie Metchnikoff
was seen at the Pasteur institute today and
gave the Associated Press an interesting
| expression of his views on the outbreak of
cholera in Germany. Tho professor added
the important information that the Pas
teur institute had just received special de-
tailed reports upon the actual cholera cases
| in Germany and said he considered , from
the ARCHAEOLOGICAL examinations made
| under his personal direction that the cases
are unquestionably Asistic cholera.
No Cholera in Russia.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2.-The health
department reiterated today it's assurance
that theer is no cholera in the empire, in
cluding the Vistula district. The Minsk
district has Just reported again that no
cases Of cholera have been discovered there.
A special investigation is being conducted
in the Warsaw district. The authorities
are again tracing the course down the
Visual of the raft on which two cases of
cholera occurred in April last while de-
scending the river from the government of
Minsk to Culm, West Prussia.
Although II is officially reported that no
cases of cholera have occurred in the Wis
tula district itself or in Russian Poland.
yet the Russian government was notified
by telegraph of the presence of cholera
in the district of VladimirVolhynskiy, in
the Volhyna government, on the upper
Bug river. tributary OF the Vlstula close
to the Austrian frontier. Six fatal cases
have occurred. Wood RATS descend this
region along the Bug and Vistula rivers.
WARSAW, Sept. At is reported here
from Tarnoff, Galicia (Austria) that chol-
era has appeared in the neighborhood of
Tarnoff Three deaths from the disease
were registered in one day.
SIX Fatal Cases in SiIesia.
WEISCHEL Silesa, Sept. 2.-The exist
ence of cholera in two different districts OF
Galicia is confirmed by medical investiga-
ton The first hve fatal cases occurred
in the village of Padewnarodowa in the
district of Miedeo Tannow and a sixth case
in the village of Grodzisko, In the district
of Lancutt.
A sick raftsman, his wife and two chill
dren and a peddling matchmaker have
been attacked by the disease in Padew
and a raftsman in Grodzisko. The Local
authorities fear a spread of the epidemic
} as boatmen in floats are coming uninter-
! ruptedly down the Vistula river from the
infected Prussian districts.
Every raftsman returning from Prussia
is subjected to a medical observation OF
Ave days At present the districts of Niskc
and Landcutt are mostly threatened, as
most of the raftsmen Of the Vistula belong
TO these districts.
BREMEN, Sept. 2.-The United State,
Board Of immigration has ordered that al
steerage passengers for the United State,
shall be at the port of embarkation sil