The Cholera Epidemic

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 15 September 1892, Page 2

The Cholera Epidemic

LPSB UNITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION.. 1 New Tobk, September 12. One thousand armed fishermen belonging to Long Island landed on Fire Island which fronts their towns. A judge granted an injunction to prevent them landing, but withont avail. An attempt to burn the hotel failed. A battalion of the Naval reserve had been summoned to disperse the rioters. A mob lined the Island docks armed with guns and other weapons, and resisted the landing of the Normania's passengers from the tug Cephinus, and also refused to permit food and blankets to be despatched for the woman and children on board, and tried to drown Dr Vough in charge of the Sanitation Department. Altogether three thousand passengers are now quarantined in New York Harbor. The tug Cephinus has landed the Normania's passengers on Fire Island. The rioters dispersed on learning that the injunction " had been cancelled, and that 1200 troops had been summoned to support the authority of the Government. Women and children occupy the Wawayanda Club House on Fire Island. September 14. , Up to date there have been 27 deaths at the Quarantine station, besides 63 on the steamers during the voyage across | the Atlantic. Bkblin, September 12. Two hundred deaths occurred in Ham- \ burg yesterday. 28,000 people have fled from the city. September 14. There were 227 deaths at Hamburg yesterday. There are three thousand patients in the hospital, three-fourths of whom are women and children. Business is still suspended. Btida Pesth, September 14. The Hungarian Government has ordered all soft goods and provisions imported from infected countries to be burnt.