Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — IN NEW YORK HARBOR. [ARTICLE]
IN NEW YORK HARBOR.
The Yellow Flag File* From tho Moravlii —Other Ve**aL Under Suspicion. New York, Sopt. I.—The steamship Moravia, which arrived from Hamburg t on Tuesday night, having had twentytwo deaths from cholora among her passengers <luring the trip, was ordered this morning down to tho lower quarantine, two miles south of ywinburuo Island. Bho lay in Gravosend Bay last night, and at daybreak holstod tho yellow (lag. warning all vessels to giya her a wide berth. No now cases of disease have brokon out among her passengers. Dr. Taimago.after working amoug the vessels In tbo upper quarautino this rooming, visited the Moravia. lie was mot by Captain Sblele and the sbip’s doctor, and the three mode a tour of the ship. The two women who wore attacked with the dlseuso on tho voyage hero worn found to be on a fair road to recovery. They are convalescing luan Isolated part of tho alilp. The Mo* ravia's passengers will receive a bath this afternoon. Tho steamor will remain b:low Swluburno Island nntll the health officers are certain that all trace es the plague Is removed from lior. ckoi.era-stßickkn kuig rants detained Liverpool, August 31.—Four Rnsslsn emigrants, who were to sail hence for America, were to day stricken with the pestilence. They were atouce removed to • hoapnai. where they an closely wateh-
ed to determine whother the disease is of the Jnw Asiatic (type. - Washington, Aug. 31.—The following dispatch was received at the State Department from the United States consul at Glasgow: ~ “Cholo!a outbreak here among Russian emigrants for America. There were SOO new cases of cholera and 317 deaths fm~- the disease reported on the 31st, from Hamburg. The British and American consuls at Havre do not regard tho situation as alarming. As a matter of precaution tho American consul appointed a committee of physicians to inspect all outgoing At lan tic steamers. The Minister of the Interior has ordered every possible facility to be extended to the foreign consuls Id tho matter of abode and extent of tho disease and its progress. Tho woather appears to have no effect on the epidemic. Yesterday there was a marked change in tho weather at Havre, it being cold and windy; yet both the cases of the cholera and tho deaths from this disease were more numerous than ever. Sixty fresh cases of cholera have been found thore today end twenty-four cases have ended fatally. _j _• ' - Twenty one fresh casos of cholera were reported In Paris Wednesday. There were ten deaths from tiro disease. It is reported that a gonulne case of obolera has boen discovered in a tenement house in New York. %
