The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-23
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y BUFFALO.
The Horse Disease.

BUFFALO, October 22.-The horse dis
ease il still on the increase, and owe,
seven-eighths Of all the horses in the
city are affected. The disease appears
everywhere, breaking out as severely
among private horses as in the car and
omnibus stables, where borses by the
! hundred are crowded together. The
street railroad companies have with.
drawn all their short trip cars, and, in
fact, all the cara on the short branch
railroad, and are making fewer trips and
slower time. Among the twenty-five
horses owned by them, there is not a
single horse free from the disease.
The Express OF this morning pub
fishes table showing the number OF
horses sick in twelve livery stables in
this city, which shows that out of four
hundred and fifteen horses only thirteen
are able to work, and out Of the twelve
stables all but one are closed. OF one
hundred hackmen in the city only ten
appeared yesterday. and there are none
at all visible to-day. The omnibus
companies trips have been suspended
the past three days and the truck horses
are all laid up. Out Of twerty-seven
horses owned by the express companies
only one is being worked.
The disease has also appeared among
the fire department horses, but not to
great extent. Back in the country the
disease has not yet appeared, but the
farmers coming to the city in the morn
ing find their horses affected at night.
The only exception to the disease so
far seems to be among the horses and
mules on the canal. 1t has broken out
here but very little Should it become
general, however, the damage to ship
pers cannot be estimated. In some few
cases where it has appeared the horses
have been taken out of the stables away
from the other teams. In this way the
towing companies hope to prevent the
epidemic from becoming general.
So far not more than half dozen
have died. The disease is not fatal
until it reaches the lungs. Many OF
our veterinary surgeons have visited
Canada to inquire into the nature of the
disease and the method of cure. The
symptoms appear to be harsh cough.
with running at the nose and eyes, and
the horses afflicted with it eat and
drink but little. DR.. Summerville
alone has had charge of nearly nine
hundred horses during the past week.
There is no question among horsemen
here but that this is the Canadian dis
ease, which has swept through Mon
treai and is still existing there. Itseems
to BE- spreading, having already appear.
ed in Rochester, at Niagara Falls aud
Suspension Bridge. Nearly all the
horses are afflicted, including all OF
O'Brien's circus horses. Steam tugs
are moving canal boats in some cases
as far as Tonawsnda, at advanced
freight rates. Reports received here by
the agents of the different towing COM
panies state that the epidemic is break
ing out along the line including Ro-
chester, Syracuse, Utica, and even as
far east as West Troy. From all the
information collected and which is rell-
able, the disease is commencing to
sweep along the entire canal. 1t Is
feared that among those horses the
disease will prove more fatal than else
where.