Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-24
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
Associated Press Reports.
THE HORSE PESTILENCE.
The Talady Rapidly Spreading.
Prom Thirty TO Forty Fer Cent. OF
the Horses i'm New York EIl-Se-
riOrs interruption Of Traffic
feaTed-ErOm = coo 60 900
Animals Affected.

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-The increase in the
number Of cases OF horses suffering from tue
preva,en: malady i calculated AZ froTG thirty 70
forty Ter cent OF the hurSes IN the ctty or from
eight 10 ten thOusaUG horses la all the various
stages OF the maisdv. The subject Is seriously
discussed. and fears that
CENEsAL INTERRUPTION OF TRAFFIC
nay tahe place in few DAYS are SpTea ling
Yesterday hundreds OF injected horses gere on
the streets, and thus TAR there seems 70 be a DO
termination by the car conn aGies AMI stage
prcprietCTs TO run their vehicles az all hazards
About ore hundred and fifty cars in an have
been taken OF the different lines. giving little
longer time 10 wait het~een trips, but a. yet i
has not interfered with the comfort OF the tray
ellng public. Some forty stages were withdrawn
yesterday, and those in use were consequently
greatly oyercrOwded.
ALARMING STORIES
have been circulated 20 the effect that the infec-
ueus nature of the disease Is transmitted ~ hu-
man beings, but beyond reports no cases have
as yet appeared wherein the m aster has taken
the disease from his horses. The Broadway
street car company last night had one hundred
horses sick out Of about eleven hundred. The
50 avenue line has more than half its number
Two thousand horses) suffering. Throughout
the lines the disease IL gaining.
THE BROOKLYN AND JERSEY CITY
horses have been similarly visited. A number
OF stablemen think the disease will spread TOR
rev Gays, then decline and fall away entirely.
No cases were reported as terminating fatally
up TO yesterday afternoon.
THE PLAGUE IN ROCHESTER,.
frost last night, but reports this morning show
that the horse disease has taken a ssyerer form
than ever. Last evening there were no horses
10 be seen on the streets. The shopkeepers are
delivering goods 10 their city customers by
means OF hsnd-car:s. Persons who have con-
tracts Tor building hoTses haye suspended work
20 great extent and discharged their laborers.
IL Is now evident that the animals attacked
took the disease from twelve to thirty dtvs
before II was discovered. 4 few fatal cases are
reported this morning. and the disease has
appeared among the canal horses here and
along The line of the canal. The suspension OF
the street cars is great Inconvenience. There
Is great difficulty IN procuring conveyance for
funerals.
AN ALLEGED SPECIFIC.
Brooklyn gentleman has Scrt c0mu1uj-
cation 10 the agent OF the New York Associated
Press, stating that a sub-cutaneous injection OF
picnic acId is rapid cure for the horse disease.
The quantity TO be administered is small.
THE sCoURGB IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2.-The horse disease has
made its appearance here. Fifty cases were
reported in the stables OF the West Side street
company yesterday.
THREE FATAL CASES Is NEWDURGH.
NEwBURGH, y. y, Oct 2L-The horse disease
mas made its appearance in this vicinity, and
three deaths have occurred.
THE EPIDEMIC IN PROVIDENCE.
Providence, r. L., Oct. 2i.-The horse epi-
Of mic has appeared here.