The Cholera Epidemic

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 39, 17 September 1892, Page 2

The Cholera Epidemic

♦ , • jv" , LP^B UNITED PBEBB, ASSOCIATION. j ... New Yobk, September 15. Before the rioters yielded, the people on the steamers appeale^d^to. them to receive two hundred; exhausted women and children on Fire. jTslahd^ ' They replied that, they had to , consider , t^eir , own families, and would drown or Bhp6t,ariy who landed. .Five' hundred; troops, accompanied by Gatling guns, were Chen sent to the scene. •- Boatmen offeredthe'quarantined paßs#tigers on Fire Island to land them in New York for 50 dollars each. i .: Sporadic cholera has made ils,anpeAr« ance in New. York. f The ... other States are excited, and are discussing the feasibility of excluding New Yorkers. ; , Three more deaths from ' cholera are recorded in this city. September 16. The Normania's passengers were released to-day. ■ ■;■; ' -'■ •' •- :.•■'; -r-.i ; ; i The Hamburg steamer: Bohemia has arrived . here. Eleven children died of cholera' oh the passage., " '/! <. i '-. London, September 15. A steamer has arrived at Hull from Cronstadt, and reports I ttiatf during the voyage two deaths occurred from cholera. ; _„ ,:-.:. \) September 16,-, The Lord Mayor refuses to open a fund for the relief of fiamburg. ' ' ' Calcutta, September 16. Cholera is decimating the Ameer's troops and preventing ' him from attacking the Hazaras. ; :i Bbbmn, Septemtjer 16. Two hundred and six deaths were reported in Hamburg yesterday. The mill* tary doctors who were despatched to the city are now leaving; as the back oi the epidemic is believed to be broken. : ' : : Theatres are being re-opened. ; ; Ottawa, September 16. Orders have been issued to quarantine passengers by train from New York.