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J!?. FORTY SEVENTH
YEAB
f; THE MORAVIA
, BRINGS A CARGO
OF TRE PLAGUE
Into the Harbor of New Yorkf
and Dr. Jenkins . Tirta
aUy Admits' It. Is ' '
asiItic
TBUE
CHOLEBA.
The
Ship Arrives Tuesday Night,
But Not Boarded Till Day.
22 PATIENTS DIE ON THE OCEAN
While the Health Authorities Find Others
' ConYilescent.
All Were Steerage Passengers Who
Embarked at Hamburg Reporters
Who Tried to Board the Steamer Are
Arrested The Ship Surgeon Called
the Disease Cholerine The Captain
Blamed for Not Steaming Back to
Europe All Passengers and Crew
WU1 Be Dumped Upon Hoffman
Island A New Danger Against Which
. the Quarantine Is Powerless The
Circassia Undergoing a Thorough
Cleansing The Teutonio Inspected
and Found AU Bight Cholera and
Cholerine Described.
IEFZCLlI.TZLZGBAlf TO THE DIBPATCn.l
NwXoek, Aug. 3L A ship bearing
the plague is in port. At 10 o'clock on
Tuesday night the Hamburg-American
steamship Moravia dropped her anchor off
Quarantine station on Staten Island after
a voyage of two weeks from Hamburg,
during which 24 of her passengers were
stricken with Asiatic cholera, of whom 22, a,
lrighttul percentage, died and were buried
st sea.
The ship remained at anchor in Grave
send Bay the greater part of yesterday, and
to-day will be sent to Hoffman Island,
where everybody and everything about her
will be disinfected. Then the passengers
and crew will be returned on board the
purified ship and detained there to await
developments, but whether the plague will
be stayed by these measures and prevented
from,aching,ile bore, is a question.
Aboat G6S People on Boaxd.
The Moravia is one of the older ships of
the Hamburg-American line. She Is of
small size, but when she sailed from Ham
burg on August 17 she carried 600 steerage
passengers and a crew of 68 people, all
told. In view of the distressing
condition of affairs that was developed on
board within 24 hours after her departure,
the following bill of health of the Acting
Consul of the United States is a matter of
unusual interest:
Board or Health, J
Bjjcbvbq, Aug. 15. J
Consulate of the United States of Amerlcai
I, the undersigned. Vice and Acting Con
snl of tho United States of America for the
port of Hamburg, do hereby cer
tify that the German steamship
called tbo Moravia, of Hamburg, of
the registered burden of 2,737 tons,
whereof Thelle "is master, navigated by
about C3 men, and having on board about
600 passengers, being in all about 6C3 persons
on board, is about to leave this port for Xoff
Tort.
1 hereby further certify that In this port
and vicinity, and among the shipping there
of, good health prevails, without any sus
picion of plague, cholera or epidemic dis
ease whatsoever.
Given under my hand and seal of this
Consular Office the day and year above
written. Chab. H. Burke,
Seal. Vice and Acting U. S. CensuL
The Carnival or Death Begins.
Wlth-this document, known to shipping
merchants as a clean bill of health, Captain
G. Theile, the ship's commander, sailed
away at 4 o'clock on tho morning of the
17th. .
On the next day, while the ship was still
in narrow waters, Franz Kulczinsky, a
babe of 11 months, was taken with cramps,
and Surgeon Israel was called to
attend it. He found it in a
state of utter collapse. A brief examina
tion served to send the surgeon in haste to
the captain. The babe was in the throes of
Asiatic cholera, and it was absolutely cer
tain that the plague would spead.
There was a consultation between the
officers, and then the sailors were set to work
to prepare a hospital where the sick
could be isolated. A place was found
in the covered portion at the
stern of the upper deck, known to seamen
as the turtle back. Here they were brought,
and with them Frederich Bollenbach, a
babe of 9 months, with his mother, who
was stricken very soon after tho Kulczinsky
child was attacked.
Tho Patients Die In Rapid Succession.
Before the day ended still another case
had developed, and by the end of 48 hours
from the time the ship sailed ten patients
sufiering with the plague had been carried
to the hospital.
There were two deaths from the disease
on the second day out of port On the
third there were no- less than six deaths
from cholera. To add to the terrors of
the situation there were developing
nearly a dozen new cases on this
day. Then came a lull in the death rate,
for but two died on the 21st, and bnt two
on the 22nd, but on the 23rd five
were overcome in spite of precau
tions taken. Then once more the
plague wa restricted, for none died during
the three !... rnll I .J r. it .. .
3--- -j. 'uiiuniuj, wu ajier mat two
died on the 27th, and one each on the 28th
nd29th. By this time the ship was off the
American coast.
The Passengers Seein to Bo Happy.
A Dispatch reporter went down to
Gravesend bay in the. afternoon and
steamed around the Moravia at such a
distance that the ship and passengers
could be easily seen. Several hundred peo-
- pie were on the upper deck.
They crowded
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to the side of the ship and climbed on
the rail, where they looked much
like farm children swinging on a
gate. They talked cheerfully "to each
other, and some of them shouted and
wave1 their hands In pleasing fashion to
members of the tug's crew. It was obvious
that nd one on deck was worrying very
much over the cholera or the prospect ot a
bath and disinfection.
There is now no doubt that the 22 persons
whd died on the Moravia died from Asiatio
.cholera. Health Officer Jenkins practically
made that admission to-nizht when he re
turned to quarartine after having spent the
afternoon on board the plaeue-stricken ves
sel. This is Dr. Jenkins version of the
LSIoravia's condition.
jtslatic Cholera Practically Admitted.
I visited the vessel and made a general
inspection of (ho people. I lound them all
appaiently well except two convalescent
patients. Dr. Israel informed me that theie
had beermo one on board 111 within five
days. Host of the cases become ill,
he said, n short time alter they
sailed. Some died In less than Si
hours. Tho last death occurred on the 28th.
Ton cases occurred within 24 hours alter
sailing. No temperature was taken, but the
surgeon judged the temperature of tho
patients was very low from the touoh. The
patients, the ship s surgeon said, were
debilitated after their long rallroaa rides
before embarkation at Hamburg.
Dr. Byrau thou took some bedding from
one ot tlio rooms in which two patients
were. Tl.is was somewhat soiled and offered
very good subject for examination. He will
probably know whether it contains cnolera
by to-morrow. I ordered the captain to
thoroughly dlslnlect everything and every
body on board.
As I started to leave the vessel I saw a
tugooat, the passengers on whloh tried to
board the Moravia. I pnt Dr. Sanborn on
board the Moravia with instructions to shoot
anj one who attempted to board. I don't
wish to say who the people on the tugboat
were.
The iloravla will be sent to lower quaran
tine to-morrow, when liei passengers will be
taken i to Hoffman Island for disnlfection.
They aro certain to bo held five dais at
least. We are uncertain whether the dip
ease is Asiatic cholera or not.
Dr. Jenkins stated that the discharge of
the patients was the ice water discharge
characteristic ot Asiatic cholera, and that
he knew of no other disease which had this
characteristic This statement was pretty
conclusive evidence that Dr. Jenkins be
lieves the disease to be genuine cholera,
but he did not wish to say so in as many
words.
The Nationality of the Immigrants.
The death list was made up of 13 natives
of Poland, three natives of Hesse, one
native of Austria and five of Prussia. They
were all burried at sea.
At present there are three cases of
measles, and two women are recovering
from slight attscks of the disease. The
entire steerage comes from the infected dis
trict, and to-night Dr. Jenkins is exceed
ingly anxious and worried over the out
look. The Moravia arrived last night at 10
o'clock, and, strange to say, notwithstand
ing her terrible record ot deaths for the
voyage, her captain passed through
Sandy Hook up the lower bay
and through the fleet of steamships
which- were anchored off the boarding
station. She did not stop there, but moved
up several hundred feet north of the fleet,
within about eight miles of the battery and
there dropped her anchor.
No word was sent ashore all night, nor
did any of the quarantine officers board
her. It was early this morning when they
started on their usual round to board the
vessels anchored in the stream. The Mora
via was the last one which Physicians Tall
madge and Sanborn drew up alongside.
Dr. Jrnklns Hars the Dread News.
It was after 10 o'clock, and it was known
that the Moravia was from an infected port.
Shortly after 11 o'clock ' the little tugboat
liich does sen ice for Dr. Jenkins' stall
left the Moravia's side and steaiujd for the
big Teutonic In the meantime a yellow
Whitehall boat, rowed by two men, left the
Moravia's side and pulled for the beach.
When she reached the little wharf
fronting the department station William
Seeuine, an attache, hurriedly' leit her
and delivered a sealed envelope to Dr.
Jenkins, who opened it and betrayed no in
dications that there was anything wrong.
Then the tug, with Dr. Tallmadge aboard,
came ashore, and there was a conference
with the health officer.
At that time, after leaving Dr. Jenkins,
Dr. Tallmadge, who looked very much per
turbed, asserted there was nothing wrong
with the Moravia, and that every
one on board was enjoying good
health. He lett the quarantine wharf
and the tug's whistle seemed to put an extra
spurt of steam in the effort to get alongside
the plague-stricken craft.
Apparently acting upon orders from Dr.
Tallmadge, which had been given on his
first trip, there were signs of activity
aboard, and the immigrants, as if expecting
to be landed, could be seen hurrying up
and down the deck, looking in the direction
of the Staten Island shore, and occasionally
waving hats or handkerchiefs.
Slonmlnc Back Into the Onter Bay.
Withm five minutes after the Moravia
was boarded for the Becond time she had
hoisted her anchor, got up steam and turned
her bow on the direction of the ocean. She
made a long detour around the fleet, hugging
the Long Island shore and passing out of
the Narrows for the lower bay shortly
before noon.
A dbase of the case of the Moravia which
deserves investigation, and which should be
looked into with thoroughness, is
the action ot the captain of the
Moravia in continuing the voyage
to this counjry under the conditions
w hich prevailed on his shin. If the disease
broke out on the day -following his de
parture from Hamburg, why did he not,
those connected with the Quarantine De
partment asb, turn back home instead of
bringing the disease to a new country?
Mr. Goddard, city editorof the New York
TTorid, and four of his staff of re
porters, on the towboat J. W.
Husted, attempted to visit the
steamer Moravia in the lower bay.
They were placed under arrest by Dr. Tall
madge and brought before Health Officer
Jenkins. As they did not succeed in
boarding the steamer the health .officer dis
charged them.
The Moravia is now anchored in Grave
send Bay between Fort Hamilton and Nor
ton's Point, about 200 yards east of the
main channel. She is out of the way of
passing vessels. She will be in
definitely detained. The passengers
and crew, even to the cabin boy, will be
landed on Hoffman Island. Every rag of
clothing will be disinfected and eyery
person bathed. "When the ship is
cleaned she will be disinfected and
the passengers then put aboard and detained
theTe for an indefinite time, being obliged
to land on the island daily for inspection
and baths.
Before starting down the bay, Health
Officer Jenkins telegraphed Secretary of
State Foster, notifying him of the 22 deaths
from so-called cholerine on board the
Moravia during her voyage.
HABBIS0H IS CON VIHOED
That Be Should Take a Rand In the Work
or Beading Ofl Cholera.
Washington, Aug. 3L The announce
ment that the President wonld leave to
night for Washington was wholly unex
pected and created some surprise here, as it
vas not thought that the cholera scare was
of sufficient importance yet to demand his
presence in Washington. It is under
stood that his return is due to a telegram
sent him to-day by Attorney General
Miller, who undoubtedly Is much alarmed
at the situation and thinks the President's
presence here necessary.
The President hat been kept fully in
formed of all action taken of late to prevent
cholera getting a foothold, in the United
PITTSBURG THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1- 1892-TWELVE PAGES . fi y y fS THREE CENTS.
States, and this afternoon Secretary Foster
sent him a message, stating what had been
done by the Treasury Department In the
matter. This evening the Secretary sre
ceived word that the President would be in
the citv to-morrow, when, it is expected, ho
will hold a conference with the Cabinet offi
cers in the city to consider the status of
affairs.
WORK AT QUARANTINE.
The Clrcatsla Undergoing a Thorough
Cleaning The Tentonlo Found to Be
All Bight The Symptoms of Cholerine
and Cholera Described A Health Cir
cular.
New Yobk, Aug. 31. The following is a
synopsis of events which transpired at
quarantine to-day;
The steerage passengers "of the steamer
Circassia were transferred to Hofiman
Island this morning for observation, and
also for disinfection of their clothing and
for the purpose of giving each passenger a
bath and change of clothing. The Circassia
is anchored off quarantine, and it is under
going a thorough cleansing. The baggage
of her steerage is being thoroughly djsin
fected. Her steerage passengers will be re
turned on board ship to-morrow, and the
vessel will, no doubt, be alloned to pro
ceed to the city in the afternoon at the
latest.
The steamer Veendam still remains at
anchor. Her steerage passengers, also, will
be removed to Hofimau Island to-morrow
forenoon, to undergo the same process as
the Circassia. The passengers' baggage has
all been thoroughly disinfected. All the
passengers are well and as comfortable as
can be expected. -
The Teutonic Is Found All Blgh.
The steamer Teutonio arrived this morn
ing with 499 cabin and 996 steerage passen
gers. All her steerage passengers were
found thoroughly healthy, no sickness what
ever. The baggage was thoroughly disin
fected. Her steerage passengers are all
natives and residents of the British isles,
none being from infected ports. The saloon
and cabin passengers with their baggage
were transferred to the city this afternoon.
The ship will probably be allowed to pro
ceed to the city to-morrow forenoon.
Health Officer Jenkins, with Deputy E.
B. Sanborn and Dr. Byron, a well-known
bacteriologist inspector, who is appointed
to take charge of Swinburne Island, visited
all the steamers in the offing this afternoon.
They also visited Hoffman and Swinburne
Islands.
A new source of dsnger has been discov
ered by the health authorities, which may
render the present quarantine arrangement
Ineffectual. The danger lies in the fact
that passengers of the steamers arriving
here eat the food and drink the water that
is taken aboard at the foreign ports, both of
which are likely to be infected with the
germs of the disease. Under such circum
stances a quarantine here ot two or three
days would not be a sufficient safeguard
against cholera. The matter is now being
discussed by the Board of Health, and
some action will probably be determined
upon.
The Characteristics of Cholerine.
Cholorine is thus described: There are
certain premonitory symptoms, called by
some authorities the first stage of the dis
ease, to which the name cholerine has been
given. These consist of a general feeling
of uneasiness, weakness, nausea and diar
rhoea and sometimes vomiting. The dejec
tions at first, thoagh frequent, are natural.
Cholerine is usually caused by eating over
ripe,lrnit," and while it may develop into
Asiatic cnolera it is not always a necessary
precursor of that dread disease.
The quantity of unsound food or rotten
cheese which must be taken into the system
to produce cholerine must be large. It
differs from cholera proper in this, as a
single germ of the Asiatic plague intro
duced into the intestines takes a rapid
course and the whole mucous membrane in
the course of a couple of days is eaten
away.
The health board to-day issued a circular
to all railways, ferrys, steamboat offices,
factories, etc, where a large number of
people are likely to meet, ordering that ad
loining the waiting rooms, or in the fac
tories there should be set aside an air-tight
room. These will be temporary places of
isolation should cases of cholera suddenly
develop. Closets, etc, are to be inspected
daily. The board has also fitted up a "dust
proof" room, where bacterological examin
ations will be made A supposed cholera
discharge will be cultivated until the pres
ence or absence of the germ is made posi
tive. AH discharges sent by the inspectors
to the board will be examined in this room.
QTJAEANIIKED BEFORE EHBABKIHG.
"Consuls In Great Britain Beport That Im
migrants Are Not Bringing Disease.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 31. The
State Department to-day received the fol
lowing dispatch from the Consul at Glas
gow: "Cholera confined to cases reported
among continental immigrants. No con
tact with any passengers sent forward. No
cholera in city."
The Marine Hospital service to-day re
ceived the following cablegram from the
United States Consul at Liverpool: "All
steerage passengers efficiently quarantined
before embarking. All clothing and bag
gage thoroughly disinfected by the sulphur
process. Passengers already embarked
were pronounced perfectly safe bv the local
authorities, who are thoroughly alive to the
danger and are taking vigorous measures to
prevent any outbreak.".
SOME GETTING AWAY.
A Bambnrg Emigrant Found and He'd at
Detroit for Disinfection.
Detroit, Aug. St. The inspection of
immigrants from the East continues. In
spector Corcoran to-day reported to Health
Officer Duffield as follows:
"I have quarantined and am holding at
quarantine station Sylvester Kaminsky,
lrom Hamburg to Detroit. He has no
evidence to show his disinfection or in
spection at New York quarantine, and
have held him for disinfection, etc"
.MINERS' WAGES INCREASED.
The Beading Coal Company Figures a New
Basis for Faying lis Men.
Pottsyuxe, Aug. 31. The collieries
drawn to make return of prices for coal sold
in August, by which to determine the wages
to be paid for the last half of August and
the first half of September, 1892, have made
the following returns: St Nicholas, Phila
kelphia and Beading Coal and Iron Com
pany, 52 61 5-10; Eagle Hill, 52 67 8-10;
Thomaston, 52 51; Bear Eun, 52 66; Alaska,
52 55 5-10. The average is 52 60 36-100,
and the rate of wages 3 per cent above the
basis.
The above information contained in a
circular was issued from the Philadelphia
and Beading Coal and Iron Company head
quarters here at noon to-day, and will be
good news to the entire mining region.
This is the highest rate of wages paid mine
employes since 1889, and company officials
intimate that this rate may stU further be
increased in the near future
A Braddock Failure Caused by a
Strike.
Bbaddook; Aug. 3L jerfot The
store of F. W. Graham was to-day closed
by the Sheriff on an execution issued by A.
Shephard & Co., of Pittsburg. Mr. Gra
ham says it is the effects of the big strike
of five years ago, he still having accounts
nnnaid on his books amounting to 2.000
Jjrom that date.
THE SCOURGE
T
ITS GRIP
On All Western Europe, Where
It Is Adding More Cities
to Its Domain.
HAMBUBG IN THE COILS.
Stern Trnth Suppressed by the Health
' Authorities, and the
TERRORIZED MASSES KNOW IT.
Cool Heads Are Doing Their Fest to Prevent
a Eloody IMot.
Pig-Headed Bed Tape Leaves Hundreds
of Dead Unburied The Corpses Add
ing; to the Contagion In the Air The
Dead Must Soon Be Burled With
Quick Lime in Trenches Two Deaths
in a London Suburb The Plague In
vades Liverpool and Dover About
150,000 Deaths Thus Far In Russia
' Cholera Arrives in the Scottish Port
of Dunkirk Hamburg Cholera Hos
pitals in Terrible Confusion All Ves
sels Leaving English Ports for Amer
ica Are Thoroughly Fumigated.
TBT OiBLE TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Hamburg, Aug. 31. CopyrigTd. No
adequate idea of the situation in this
plague-stricken city is furnished by the
meager and false reports of the ravages of
cholera given out by the authorities. Yes
terday's record, as officially stated, made it
appear that the pestilence had materially
abated. As a matter of fact there were
more than 800 fresh cases yesterday and 300
deaths.
To-night's task for thegrave-diggers num
bers 320 corpses. The people realize now
that they have been deceived, and almost a
panic is the result.
There has been a startling change for the
worse in the last 43 hours. A sudden
blizht has fallen upon the city. Most
places of business were closed to-day.
Shops that tried to do business were open
a few hours only.
Social Htfe at a Standstill.
Most of the hotels are .empty, some of
them are closed. All 'piiulio galhulldgs
have been prohibited by the police.
The excuse of the sanitary officers for
furnishing inadequate reports of the spread
of the plague, is that all medical men are so
overwhelmed with work that they iave no
time to make reports.
It must be admitted that the pestilence is
practically beyond the control of the au
thorities. It is no longer possible to move
the sick to hospitals. Only those stricken
in public places are promptly taken to the
lazaretto. Hundreds are dying ot the pes
tilence in their homes.
Medical aid has at last been summoned
from Berlin, and a corps of physicians from
that city is on the way here this evening.
A heavy rain last evening may have had a
slightly beneficial effect, though the num
ber of new cases to-day can only be
guessed at
The Lower Classes Beady for Blot.
The official report furnishes no guide to
the truth. There is great misery among the
lower classes, who are not only the almost
exclusive victims of the plague, but who
suffer alio lrom many privations entailed
by the coming of the pestilence. Several
breweries are supplying the demand for
filtered water by sending it in their wagons
for free distribution among the poor. The
police have found it necessary to use force
in many cases in their work of disinfecting
houses where the cholera has invaded.
There is a riotous feeling prevalent,
especially among the masses, which the
newspapers and sober-minded people find it
difficult to restrain. There are loud de
mands for the punishment of the Medical
Inspector, who, waiting till four days after
the disease made its appearance, reported
(hat he believed there was cholera in Ham
burg. There Is No Hope Until October.
The papers to-day counsel the people to
wait until the crisis is past before demand
ing the punishment bf the derelicts. The
authorities to-day made an appeal for help
to private physicians and volunteer nurses,
whom it asks to ,aid the exhausted hospital
staffs.
The best medical authorities in the eity
express the opinion that it will hardly be
possible to stamp out the plague before
October. The suburbs are now afflicted in
almost the same proportion as the city
HselC
A canvass of the hotels to-night shows
only 30 strangers in town. No Americans,
so far as known, have fallen victims of the
disease. -r
The mortuaries have proven entirely in
adequate, and new death houses are being
built It has been difficult to obtain grave
diggers enough, and some bodies have re
mained unburied three or four days on this
account It is said, however, that to-day's
dead will all be buried before morning.
The Chamber of Commerce has organized
a relief committee. The cholera victims
now, more frequently than at first, are per
sons of the middle and upper classes. Dr.
Merscb, who was the musical critic on' the
staff of the Nichrichten, is among tDe dead.
Already it is believed that the infection
has been spread by the dead. Bitter im
precations are heaped upon the authorities
for their pig-headedness in letting the
"victims lie unburied, to scatter the con
tagion among the living, while they bunted
for papers to show the ogeoccuDitioDi etc.
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of the deacj. A reign of terror prevails, and
every person who can possibly do so is flee
ing the city. ,
Many Heroes Still in Hambare.
An exception must be made, however, to
this assertion. Those whose duty calls
them to attend the sufferers, physicians and
those who have volunteered their services,
are doing a work that requires the extreme
of heroism. Among the hospitals, every
where where they can help, they take their
lives in their hands without hope of fame or
reward and do their utmost to alleviate the
awful sufferines of the plague-stricken
victims.
Tne ordinary form of burial will soon
have to be- abandoned and trenches filled
with quicklime will have to be resorted to.
In many parts of the city the shops of
grocers, bakers and butchers have been
closed by the police, the owners and their
men being stricken down while attending
to business.
pThe Prussian Ministry of War has or
dered the garrison lazaretto at Altona to
supply the Hamburg hospitals with SOO
beds. The registrars who record the deaths
in the city will keep their offices open until
10 o'clock every night
During the 24 hours ended at midnight
last night the ambulances conveyed to the
hospital 508 patients. Of this number 263
have since died.
Horrible ConTnilon In the Hospitals.
A dispatch from Vienna says: A physi
cian who has returned from Hamburg re
ports that the ordinary means of disposing
of the dead have been found inadequate.
Furniture vans have been pressed into
service to carry the bodies to the places of
interment His description of the hospital
arrangements almost passes belief, but there
is no reason to doubt that every word he
writes regarding the sitnation in Hamburg
is absolutely true He says the whole sys
tem is confused, and everything goea along
in a hap-hazard fashion. So great has
grown the demand for hospital service that
it is proposed to fit up the schools and gym
nasiums as hospitals.
Describing his visit to the old Hamburg
Hospital, he says he found affairs there In a
far more horrible condition than at the
Eppendorf Hospital. In the dirty, neg
lected passages he saw bundles df clothing
lying on the floors awaiting disinfection.
Among these packages lay a large number
of the bodies of those who had died from
cnolera.
Patients Crowded Promiscuously Tocether.
These bodies showed the carelessness
with which they were handled, for they lay
in every conceivable way, just as they had
been dropped by the hospital attendants.
Even to those inured to hospital scenes the
sight of these bodies men, women and
little children being thrown promiscuously
together is revolting. The doors of the
wards opening on these passages are left
wide open, and the sick can actually Bee the
ever growing number of the dead. To get
into the wards the people have to step over
the corpses and the piles of infected cloth
ing. The overcrowding in the wards is fearful.
In one room, fitted for 30 patients, 60 are
lying in such close proximity that nursing
them is very difficult, if not almost an im
possibility. Mr.ny of the sufferers are
without covering and lie on bare mattresses
which are absolutely filtny from use.
For from 40 to 60 patients there are only
two attendants and one doctor. So abso
lute and widespread is the confusion that
patirntt: rrho ere not suffering from tbs epi
demic are taken into the 'cholera wards,
where they contract the disease.
No Disinfection of Private nouses.
Private dwellings where deaths from
cholera occur are not disinfected. Only
the portable articles in them are taken to
public disinfecting rooms, where anybody
is allowed to freely enter and many contract
the infection there.
The Hamburg'Senate has voted 500,000
marks to enable the authorities to cope
with the epidemic Had this vote been
passed two weeks ago it would have saved
much misery.
The London Standard's Hamburg corre
spondent telegraphs: Thursday evening
During the past 24 hours 395 burials
have taken place. Most of the cholera
victims, it is now claimed, are in
quarters near the hospital and two physi
cians succumbed to-day. Four deaths from
Asiatic cholera are reported from Lubeck.
A smallpox epidemio is raging in Holstcin.
There are 29 cases here and 15 at Kiel. The
temperature of the Elbe wa'er is unusually
higher, 73 Fahrenheit
THE NEWS FROM BERLIN.
The Flacne Spreadlne It Is Not Com
municated Through the Halls.
BEELlir, Aug. 3L Prof. Koch is to re
turn to Hamburg. He will be accompanied
by military and civil surgeons. He intends
to further investigate as to the origin of
the epidemic. A petition that the Bourse
be closed at 2 p.m. daily has been put in
circulation and is being signed.
A choleraic outbreak has occurred in the
village of Budar, near Posen, among a
number of Hamburg refugees, and cases ot
a similar character are reported from Span
dan, Beuthen, Stuttgart and other towns,
while there are three cholera "suspects" at
Charlottenburg. The imperial dispatch
boat Grcif is quarantined at Kiel, having
aboard a case of sickness suspected to be
cholera.
The Korth German Gazette, in an article
relative to the cholera epidemic, justifies
the action of the authorities in not making
an examination of all railway passengers,
on the ground that a cursory inspection is
often misleading, and that' it is better to
trust to the observations ot the officials and
fellow passengers. It says that the author
ities do not intend to disinfect letters going
through the mails, as they have no reason
to believe that cholera germs can be com
municated thereby.
A Dost mortem examination of the body
ot Frau Frohmer, who died in this city un
der circumstances indicating that her dis
ease was caused by the prevailing epidemic,
snowed that death was due to typhoid fe vet
supervening from cholera. A workman be
longing to the lowest class and of exceed
ingly intemperate habits, who died from
the disease to-day, was seized with the mal
ady after drinking a quantity of canal
water.
A Railway Center Attacked.
. Brussels, Aug. 31. Nine cases of cholera
have been reported in Malines,a city 14 miles
from Antwerp. Malines is the central sta
tion for the railways which traverse Belgium"
in all directions. Four deaths from cholera
occurred at Eouen to-day.
. Immigrants B-foned Passage.
Copenhagen. Aug. 31. The Thing
valla refuses to take aboard its vessels
passengers for America coming from cholera
infected countries. It has refused passage
to a number of Hamburgers.
The'Kalser Wilt stay at Home.
Berlin, Aug. 3L Emperor William has
abandoned his intention of visiting Sweden.
He telegtaphed Kine Oscar'to-day that he
did not wish to be absent from home during
the cholera epidemic.
The Day's Becord nt Havre.
' Havbe, Aug. 31. The number of new
cases of cholera reported here yesterday is
65, a decrease of six compared with Mon
day's fijrures. She deaths- yesterday .nom
bered 33, an increase of 16 over those that P II 1 T nTfl 1 1 B f 1
occurred lrom the disease on Monday. U N I L U I 1 1 M Wl L fJ
Passenger trains between Havre and Trou- I j II I 1 1 I U 11 III L 11
ville. the well-known watering place, have "- w ' -
stopped running. . piit.p n t s inn
In a London Suburb The Dls-
ftyfo "Wfttln Liverpool and Dover
ZfrI'fo?Q 7-Ld for America is
London, AuJt"Q 9-ection con
tinues to spread sloVCl Jr.it is feared,
surely. Two deaths from2xsiatio cholera
are reported to-day at Islington, a northern
suburb of London. The clothing of the vic
tims and their bedding have been burned.
At St Pancras, in the northern part ot the
metropolis, a furnace has been erected for
burning the clothing of cholera victims,
and a station has been established for disin
fecting household effects.
The physicians who-have been watching
the cases ot the four Bussian emigrants at
Liverpool, who were attacked yesterday
with a suspicious sickness while waiting to
go on board a steamer for the United States,,
have officially declared that the disease
from which they are suffering is true Asi
atic cholera.
The baggage of all emigrants destined for
America was fumigated to-day in the
presence of the American Consul dud the
sanitary officers of Liverpool. The Consul
having" expressed himself satisfied with the
disinfection, the consular seal was affixed to
the baggage thus treated, and this was made
a necessary preliminary before taking the
baggage on board. The emigrants were
also inspected cud those who appeared to
be in anything like poor health were re
jected. The -disease has now appeared at Dover,
'one of the chief ports of communication be
tween England and the Continent and
which bos continual intercourse by steam
boats with Calais and Boulogne, France.
Three persons have been attacked with
a choleraic disorder at Dover and one of
them has died. It is not positively asserted
that the disease is Asiatic cholera, but the
presumption is that it is.
One of the cholera patients at Liverpool
is dead and two others' are in a critical con
dition. No further cases of cholera have
been reported at Gravesend. The persons
suffering from the disease are progressing
toward recovery. Two seamen belonging
to the steamship Harrington were removed
to the Swansea Hospital to-day suffering
from what is suspected to be an attack of
cholera.
150,000 DEATHS IN RUSSIA.
The Plague Growing 1 orso In St. Peters
bnrfr Notwithstandlns Official Figures.
St. Petersburg, Aug.'31. The official
cholera returns show that since the last
report there have been 6,144 new cases and
2,741 deaths in Kussia. In St. Petersburg
yesterday 155 new cases were reported.
There were 51 deaths from the disease.
These figures show a decrease of one case
and an increase of 10 deaths compared with
the returns for Monday.
Cholera is subsiding at Nijni-Novgorod,
and has quite ceased at Kozloffi The dis
ease seems to be steadily on the increase.
however, in St Petersburg, notwithstand
ing official reports. The official statistics
show that the mortality from the cholera
has been greatest in the Caucasus and the
country of the Don Cossacks. Up to the
22d of August the total number who died
throughout the Bussian Empire is given at
107,647, but owing to the known incomplete
ness of the official statistics, the real num
ber may safely be reckoned as high as 150,
000. 'r
h In a Scottish Harbor.
Dunkirk, Scotland, Aug. 31 A ship
from Havre and another from Hamburg,
which arrived in this port to-day, were
found to have choleraic cases on board.
Both vessels have been placed in quaran
tine. Sporadic Cag In Ita'y.
Home, Aug. 31. Sporadic cases ot
cholera have occurred in Naples, Venice
and Genoa. The patients have been iso
lated. TO KILL PITTSBURGERS.
An Anonymous nestern. iltinnln Said
to Be Heading This Way.
Denver, Aug. 3L The Evening Timet re
ceived an anonymous letter this morning in
which the writer says that he is going to
Pittsburg for the purpose of killing Messrs.
Frick, Lovejoy and Carnegie when the
latter returns from Scotland.
A LAKE DISASTER,
The Schooner City or To!edoGoes Down
With Bleht Bonis on Board A F.'sJ ot
Distress Seen The Lost Vessel Owned In
Hanlatee.
Chicago, Aug. 3L The schooner City
of Toledo left this port yesterday noon
loaded with lumber and bound for Michigan
City, Ind. A heavy wind was blowing at
the time, which soon became a gale. The
vessel was laboring heavily in the sea and
-finally hoisted a Hag of distress, but before
assistance could be rendered the vessel put
about, apparently making for the Manitous.
Early this morning the report reached
this city that the vessel had been found
bottom up, one-half mile from the beach at
Hopkins pier near Pierport It is be
lieved that all on board were drowned. The
master was James McMillen, of Manistee,
who was accompanied by his daughter, aged
18 years, and a crew of six men. The names
ot the latter are not known, as it appears
that the captain kept the only record in his
books on the boat The vessel is owned by
the Manistee Lumber Company, and was
valued at 55,000.
The schooner's yawl was found on the
Iwach this morning. The wires are down
between this port and Pier Port, and no'in
formation'was received until late. A resi
dent of Pier Port states that the vessel
capsized when abent two miles from the
shore. No bodies have been discovered up
to 4 p. M., and it is supposed they are still
in the boat. The life-saving crews of
Manistee and Frankfort are now patroiing
the beach and bringing in all wreckage.
A HUMAN HEAD IN THE WATEB.
McKoriort Police Investigating a Orew
roinn Ditcovery In the Tonslilogheny.
McKeespoet, Aug. 3L .Special.' At
an early hour this morning Frank Marks,
residing in a boathouse oa the Youghio
gneny river, found a human head in the
water. From appearances the head had
been in the water some time, and could not
be identified. "
The find is evidence of some foul crime
which has probably been committed, and
the police will make an investigation.
HUH TIH ODOR'S FIBSI FE0S1
Great Damage Done to the Corn Crop
Throughout the County.
Huntingdon, Aug. 3L A heavy frost,
the first of the season, fell last night
throughout the whole length of the fertile
Trough creek valley, in this county, and
covered the ground until a late hour this
morning.
Considerable damage was done to the
growing corn, the heaviest loser being
Major Italph Crotsley, whose entire crop
was. destroyed.
Members of the Amalgamated
Association Proye to Be
Sly Detectives.
SUBPRISE FOE STBIIEBS.
Sensational Testimony at the Hear
ing of Dnqnesne Rioters.
Two Detectives Join a Lodge to Get
Early Information They Are) As
signed to Assist In Guarding the Mill
Against Non-Unlonlsts They State
the Official Order Given Thorn
Carry Cards Showing Them to Be in
Good Standing In the Association
Connecting Vice President Carney
With the Trouble at Dnquesne The
Defense Taken by Surprise.
The Carnegie attorneys and the Pinkerton
detectives sprung a sensational but disa
greeable surprise on the officials of the
Amalgamated Association, their attorneys
and the Dnquesne strikers yesterday.
There was a hearing before Alderman
McMasters in the cases of John Nelson,
John Wippel and T. F. Gibson, three Dn
quesne strikers charged with aggravated
riot When the defendants, accompanied
by their attorney, John F. Cox, entered the
Alderman's office they were surprised that
no witnesses were present Sitting by
themselves in one corner of the room were
two good-natured looking workingmen who
have been employed at the Dnquesne works
for nearly two months, but as they were
Amalgamated men the defendants simply
nodded pleasantly to them and took seats
nearby.
A Surprise for tin Defense.
Promptly at 1 o'clock, the hour set for
tjie hearing, Attorney Cox demanded that
the hearing proceed. Secretary Lovejoy
was there with Attorney E. Y. Breck and a
couple of stenograpners, but there seemed
to be no witnesses for the prosecution and
Mr. Cox probably thought there was a
chance for the discharge of his clients. But
to his surprise, Captain Breck quickly as
sented to the proposition to proceed. The
informations being read the first witness
called was K. H. Tyler, one of the good
natured appearing workmen previously re
ferred to.
When he held up his hand to be sworn
the fairs of ti defendant strikers were a
study." Surp se was plainly marked on
each countenance. Thev evidently won
dered what this move meant Had these
men been bought over by the enemy? Were
there traitors in camp? What coup had
the Carnegie people prepared?
The Vi ltnesses 1V r F!nkrton.
They were not long kept in snspense.
From the time the testimony began until it
ended the faces of the drfenlants and that
of their attorney began to lengthen. When
it was ended they seemed to bs in a state of
mental collapse.
Only two witnesses were examined, Tyler
and his companion. Joeph Kaipe. When
first placed on the stand they each produced
working cards issued to them by Dnquesne
Lodge of the Amalgamated Association on
July 22, giving them official and unques
tioned admission to the. meetings of any
lodge in the association.. They had used
these card3 for that purpose, and, as the
testimony subsequently showed, with great
effect Their testimony was very much
against the defendants and the association.
Before they concluded they startled every
one present but the Carnegie representa
tives by declaring they were Pinkerton de
tectives, and had joined the association in
the prosecution of their business to secure
evidence against the strikers.
Three Strlkrrs Held for Conrt.
The hearing resulted in the three strikers
being held for court in $2,000 bail. Gibson
was the only one to secure a bondsman and
the other two were sent to jail.
The first witness called was E. H. Tyler.
He was examined by Captain Breck as fol
lows: "
Q. Are you a member of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel workers!
A. Yes. sir:
Q. What lodjre? A. Volunteer Dnquesne
Lodge.
Q. II avo yon cot a card with yout A. Yes,
sir. (Here the witness produced a card.
Q. Volunteer Lodge No. 109, State of Penn
sylvania, located at Duquesne. Is that it?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. I see your occupation is put down as
carpenter's helper. Is that the occupation
y o li i ea veT A. Tes, sir, that hi the occupation
I nave.
Q What do tueso words here, "clear for
July and August" meant A. That is clear,
they are supposed to be on a strllte.
Q. Is that clear or duest A. Yes, sir.
li bo you are a member in good standing?
Q. When" did you Join the lodget A.
About July 23. ,.,..
Q. state if that is the time the lodge was
organized. A. That Is about the time.
One of the Charter Members.
Q. Were yon present at the first meetingT
A. Yes. sir.
q. Who organized the lodget A. William
Carney.
Q. Do you know who he 1st A Vice. Presi
aeut of the Confederation of Labor.
Q. Does no belong to the Amalgamated
Association! A. Yes, sir.
Q. He organized the lodget A. Tes, sir.
Q. Is ha the party who took you In t A.
lie assisted, of course.
Q. btate whether you attended the meet
ings of the lodge regularly after that. A.
Yes, sir.
Q. State whether there was a meeting of
the lodge on the night of the 3th of August.
A. On the 3d.
Q. Just tell what was done at that meeting
and whether any of these defendants were
present. A. Well, the subjeot of stopping
the mill was brought np by Mr. Carney and
Harty Adams.
Q. Who was Harry AdsmsT A. He was
President of the Duquesne Lodge. And after
Harry Adams mads a speeoh he made a mo
tion, which was carried Into effeot, and
squads were made up.
Q. What was that motion! A. That they
make up four squads and have four captains
and go on guard that night, surround the
mill and prevent people from entering.
Q. That was the motion, that they divide
into four squads and appoint captains to
guard the mill! A. Yes, sir.
Q. Was that dono! A Yes, sir.
Detailed to Watch the Milt
Q. Who were In the squads of these de
fendants! A. Wiper and Gibson.
, Q. Who had command of those lanadiT
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