The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-10-29
Gbe Ginres, Mem BLOOMFIELD, 1)a.
Fatality Among Horses.

~ mysterious anu laJdi ulSeaSe mas DrOk-
en- out among the horses in many parts of
the state of New York. Accounts from
Buffalo say: 'The horse disease here has
become a public calamity. Many branches
of business is entirely suspended from want
of animals to do ordinary transportation
The street railroads are running with half
their usual force and expect to stop in u
day or two. Omnibus lines have suspend
ed business, all their horses being sick.
The canal horses have, until to-day escaped,
but now the disease has broken out among
them" Commercial men are alarmed
From Rochester the report is still more
alarming, a dispatch from there on the 23d
inst says ay. s!0. rlT
"The horse disease is on the increase, and
there are few. .horses in the city that arc
not affected. The street railway company
have suspended operations, all the horses
being SICK The livery stables and express
companies have also suspended. There is
hardly horse to be seen on the streets,
and not farmers team in sight here
abouts.
All the horses owned by the street rail-
way companies arc afflicted. 0'Brien's cir
Gus company have 200 horses under treat
ment. 1t is safe to estimate that over three
fourths of the horses in this city are affected
with it, both in the public and private sta
'bles. To-day it was impossible to hire
horse of any kind, and the prospects for
the morrow does not seem to brighten"
The source of the disease, was in Canada,
where it has ragged with peculiar virulence,
and it's ravages have by no means abated.
In Toronto, while the epidemic was at its
height, it was almost impossible to secure
a horse for any purpose; the street railroads
were obliged to suspend operations car
riages, both public and private; horses,
trucks, and in fact, all vehicles moved by
horse power were in the same predica-
ment. The disease first made its appear
ance on this side of the river on Friday,
October II, at Niagara Falls.
A letter from New York city written on
the 23d, says: Thousands of horses al
ready are stricken with the disease, and at
every moment newly affected animals may
be seen in each and every avenue, being
conducted to their stable. Since yesterday
the sickness has brok9n out in every rail-
road stable, while the occupants of the
stalls of private gentlemen have not been
exempt. Most of the railroads have been
compelled to lessen the number of their
rolling stock in active use, in order to give
rest to horses that show any disposition of
contracting the disease. To-day several
funerals have been postponed for several
hours, by reason of the undertaker's hors-
es being strilSen down while undergoing.
the, operation of Harvesting. Although
the horses in the Fourth avenue stable were
free from the sickness yesterday, no less
than four hundred are in the surgeons
hands to-day. The Sixth avenue line has
Jared better, but the superintendent is ap-
prehensive that the cases that had broken
out will terminate fatally. The Seventh
and Eighth avenue stables are also being
ravished by the disease. A perfect volley OF
coughs greet one on entering. Over one
hundred horses are laid low in the Ninth
avenue stable, and the cross town lines are
similarly affected. Broadway has been
deserted today there being noticeable
absence of coupes and other carriages, both
in that thoroughfare and Fifth avenue.
This afternoon the drive in Central Park
was quite empty, everybody whose horses
have hitherto escaped the malignant dis
ease being fearful to exercise their beasts,
Business men begin to feel the calamity,
and the stop and hindrance that is thereby
imposed on commerce is incalculable. iali