The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-06-07

Two DEATHS FROM HYDRoPHoBIA. Anton Auer,
German gardener in the employ of Mr.. Friebe,
who lives on the Hookstown road a short distance
from the city, was bitten by dog about three
weeks since. The animal had been recently
brought to Mr.. Friebes premises and kept tied
to prevent him from running away. He became
entangled in his chain one morning, and Mr..
Auer was in the act of releasing him when he
snapped his hand. A small cud of tobacco
sprinkled with salt was applied to the wound,
and it speedily healed. The dog bit Mr.. Friebe s
son, and another man employed in the garden,
on the same day. Two or three days afterwards,
he languished and died. The people about the
garden said the poor beast was seized with an iu-
siderable "home-sickness, and died of broken
heart.
Mr.. Auer is in the habit of paying weekly visits
to his brother who lives at Skulltown, a small
village on the Gainesville turnpike, near to Mount
Olivet Cemetery. He went, as usual, on last
Saturday, but complained Of feeling unwell. On
Sunday he was taken with commissions, and
could not endure the sight of water. Physicians
were summoned, and from the symptoms they
were of the opinion that the unfortunate man
was suffering from hydrophobia. He had some
mental hallucinations and was occasionally so
violent that he had TO be tied, but at lucid inter-
walls be conversed nationally, and did not seem to
suffer much, except that there was painful full
out saliva. He imagined that there was thick
smoke in the room, and he kept his attendants
constantly brushing it away. This was about
the only delusion that affected him. He contin-
ued to grow worse and died on Tuesday morning
in great suffering.
On Monday morning young Mr.. Friebe went
in company with one Of the physicians to see Mr..
Auer, and while there was so greatly shocked by
Mr.. Auer's condition and behavior, that he left
H.. l.oA Ill
of the matter, exhibiting much emotion. Early
on Tuesday morning he went to Lexington Mar
ket as usual to attend to his fathers business,
and after remaining there two or three hours was
suddenly taken ill. He went home at once, al
though he did not think his illness was serious.
On getting to his home he grew worse, and med
ical aid was summoned, when he was pronounced
to be suffering from hydrophobia. He gradually
grew worse until one O'Clock on Wednesday,
when he died in horrible spasms. Mr. Friebe's
sufferings are represented to have been terrible.
His spasms were frequent, and just before having
them he would whine and howl in frightful
manner. His rawlings were plainly heard quar-
ter of mile from where he lay sick. Large
quantities of saliva from his mouth and the
distortions of his face and body are said TO have
been dreadful The friends OF Mr.. Frebe on his
death Immediately telegraphed TO his father, who
is at present in Bremen notifying him of the sad
end of his son. Mr. Frebe, the father of the de-
ceased, left Baltimore on the 10th OF May by the
German steamship Berlin, for the purpose of at
tending the Vienna Exposition. Mr.. Charles
Friebe, the deceased had just completed his edu-
cation in Heidelberg and returned to Baltimore.
He was an only son.
When Herman Drusel, the third man that was
bitten, learned OF the death of Auer and the hope
less condition of Mr.. Friebe, he was advised by
his friends to consult an old German woman,
who lives somewhere on the York road, and who
is said to possess certain cure for hydrophobia.
He started to find her at once, and nothing has
since been heard of him.