Hi Are you certain of the year?
In 1915, the Italian steamer Verona reached Cape Henlopen with several hundred immigrants and a suspected case of smallpox aboard. The immigrants were duly landed at the quarantine station for an extended stay; but after a short delay, 200 of the immigrants forced their way through the wire fence that enclosed the station, brushed past the guards, and headed for the railroad station.
At the station, the clerk barricaded the office and flourished a pistol. The impasse at the railroad station ended when a detachment of 50 marines with rifles and fixed bayonets from the revenue cutter Onondaga arrived, and the immigrants retreated to the Quarantine Station. The next day, a steamer arrived to take the immigrants to Philadelphia
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http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/09...