Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-04-22
Hydrophobis.

A MAD DOG IN THE SIXTH wARD-TlfREE chill
DREN BITrEN-sEvERAL DOGS AND OTHER
ANIMALS BITTEN.
| Yesterday afternoon large black, dog belong
Ing TO John Moore, who resides TN fcfm NEAR
the Concord toll-gatc, displayed symptoms Of
rabies, and suddenly rushed at aud bit COW be-
longing to Mr.. Moore he next sprang at an OK,
but that animal raised Its head In time to avoid
the spring, and assuming threatening attitude
| deferred the dog from further attack. The
dog then started towards Mr.. Moore, who
got out of lis way thinking something had
Infatuated the animal but not at first suspecting
hydrophobla. Immediately nfter this the dog
started towards the city. On his why towards
the Brandywine he bit dog belonging to man
named Trusty. Reaching Jessup's road he turn
ed towards that part of the city formerly known
as Brandywine Village and turned up the Phila-
delphia road At the corner of this road and Mill
road he caught dog belonging to q butcher and
shook It,. Some men were working there putting
up gas lamp, and one of them picked up a
heavy stone and struck the mad dog on the head
1t caused him to loosen his hold and he ran on up
the Philadelphia road. At Vandever avenue he
bit one or two other dogs, and shortly afterwards
met a COW and two young heifers. He attacked
them and they tried to avoid him but he chased
them back and forth across the road until he sue
ceeded In biting each of them. He next turned
up Lammot street, and here GENES the most hor-
rible part of the affair.
Some little children were playing in front of
row of tenement houses there and the dog made
for them. He first caught little boy, six or
raf,11 .xfI 10
dragged the child off of porch, to which he
had fed for protection, and dragged him ont in
the road, terribly tearing and laccrating his arm.
lie noxt bit littls girl, about six yesrs o,d,o
of couple of twins, daughters of William Carter.
He also bit another little girl, the daughter of
Dennis Donovan. The dog now turncd back to
the Philadelphia road and ran rapidly Norhward,
biting one or two other dogs. He was pursued
by crowd of twenty or thirty with guns, etc.,
and was chased from the time he left the city
limits, shortly after o'clock until about 6,P.M.,
when he was killed on the farm of Eli Wilson, a
short distance above the city limits. All the dogs
known to have been bitten have been killed
The excitement in the Sixth Ward Formerly
Brandywine Village was intense, and has not
yet abatcd, while feeling Of the most profound
sympathy. with terrible grief of the parents of
the unfortunate children is deeply felt. DR. Mil
Ter Is attending the children. But little, il any,
hopes are entertained of the possibility Of hu-
man aid saving them from the frightful death to
which they seem doomed, while the suspense and
horror OF their parents for the next few weeks
must be intense.
RUMoRs OF 9TH ERR DOGS.
At about quarter bfore o'clock this IN ,rning
a dog with tongue lolling out of his mouth and
othei signs supposed TO indicate byjrophoba,
crossed the bridge from this side to thu Sixth
Ward, and ran out the Philadelphia Pike. A
rumor prevailed in Brandywine that he had
bitten a child in The First Ward but we have
been unable to traceit TO any trustworthy source.
No one seems to have seen the animal this side
OF the Brandywlne.
At Fifth and Monroe streets, yesterday, dog
bcionging to the Misses Wier bit a little child.
Some person near struck the dog, wounding but
not killing him, and the owners took the animal
home to nurse. If they are able to nurse hiGi
back to health the parents of the bitten child
may rest easy. There Is, unfortunately, no room
70 doubt tho reality of the madness in the Sixth
Ward horror Wednesdays Commercial.