Show S They Were Hungry NEW Your March 2SFive hundred and nineteen of the passengers of the wrecked Scotia arrived on the sea barge Haggerty at Castle Garden late yesterday afternoon The scene that followed beggared descrip tion They rushed into the rotunda pellmell shrieking and howling for food like ravenous raven-ous wolves They crowded around the lunch tables climbing over each other and tramp ling on helpless women and children and pandemonium reigned supreme for fully an hour It is customary to register all immigrants im-migrants before they enter the rotunda but red tape was broken on this occasion by Superintendent Jackson The force of the mass of people was so great that the officers who were stationed to keep order were swept aside like straws The seething mass could not be restrained Superintendent Jackson gave orders to give them all the food they needed and charge it to the Commissioner of Emigration Then the destruction of food began It was impossible to regulate the distribution Strong men crowded to the front with uplifted arms and eyes starting from their sockets crying in Italian Bread Bread The surging mob was utterly uncontrollable The officers of the garden aided the distribution distri-bution by throwing loaves over the heads of the nearest to others of the crowd Every time loaf was fired into the crowd twenty or more scrambled and in some cases fought to get it Dry bread was a luxury In a short time all of the food was gone The women and children were then cared for and milk and beer added to their portion The complaints of the unfortunate immigrants immi-grants were most unfavorable to the company com-pany and particularly to the captain of the Scotia Seventy additional passengers who came by rail from Patohogue arrived about 9 oclock last night They were transferred from Long Island City on the steamboat John F Moore They were even more ravenous rav-enous than the others They were fed at the garden a fresh supply of provisions having been obtained Mahy Italians were sick from eating after their long fast and several writhed in agony on the floor of the rotunda Some of their countrymen who met them here andthe women who composed com-posed with their children the largest portion por-tion of their number complained loudly of bad treatment and said they could not get food or water enough during the voyage |