The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-24
A RAID OF MAD DOGS.

THEY RUSH THROUGH THE OF CHI
CAGO AND BITE PERSONS AND
sIXTY DOGS.
The Chicago Inter Ocean of yesterday
gives the particulars of a terrible occurrence
in that city on Friday last. 1t says: The
first that was known of danger in hypropho-
bic form was about seven o'clock in the
morning, when a large yellow dog was seen
running franticaily along Starr street, froth-
ing at the mouth, and swapping at every
person or animal that came in its way
There were but few pedestrians on the street
and the most of these were children. who were
out at play, or going on errands- The
grown people who saw the mad animal
seemed paralyzed with fear, and, instead OF
e~ndeavoring TO stay the animals deadly ca
reer, sought safety in flight. The brute
rushed upon numbers Of little children
whom it metin it's rabid career, and bit them
with more or less severity. Every dog that
it met received its peculiar attentions, and
State street ~resounded with the yelping of
the poor bitten brutes. The "yaller dog
was having things its own way,
and made a triumphal progress down
the street, driving everything before
it, and inspiring terror far and wide.
The news finally reached the precinct sta
ton. The officers were pretty thoroughly
exhausted before they overhauled the dog
at last. They were nearing the city limits,
and were pressing hard upon him, when the
animal suddenly jumped over a fence. ran
into the house of j. Mats. No. 10 Hinche
street, bringing CONSERVATION to the women
folks, and sought refuge under a bed, where
he glowered and growled at its prosecutors
as they surrounded it. A well -aimed bullet
gave it its quietus. 1t had crowded into two
hours a big days work, even for a mad dog
Ii had planted its fangs in the flesh of twelve
persons, had bitten nearly forty dogs, and
had led the officers who pursued him a chase
of several miles and an hour and a half in
duration.
A SECOND CASE.
About the same time in the morning SINH.
lar trouble was brewing in the tenth pre-.
cinct, a little further south. A large dog
frenzied with hydrophobia, attacked a little
boy named VIM. A. Schneider, who was de-
livering morning papers on Clybourne ave
nue., and bit him severely on the hand. Pc
lcemen were soon on his track, and he was
killed before he had wrought such appalling
mischief as did the animal whose exploits
have lust been narrated. It's ravages were
fearful enough, to be sure, for it succeeded in
biting five persons, all children, and about
fifteen dogs. Both animals seemed, as a gen
eral thing, to avoid adults, though the list o.
sufferers includes several grown people, anG
passed many children unnoticed, but they
bit every cur they CHANGED to meet, and ours
are legion on the north side. Medical as
sistance was promptly summoned for the
suffering children, and the best remedies fol
alleviating their pains and killing the seeds
OF the horrible infection were at once ap'
piled. Policemen were engaged during 8
good share of the day in hunting down and
killing the animals which were bitten, and
which, if unmolested, would probably be or
the war path themselves in two or three
days. Citizens also lent a helping hand, and
their pet "Fidos" and "Rovers'' for the pub
lie salty. Appearances indicate that the ter
rible occurrence OF yesterday will be fol
lowed, as it ought to be, by a wholesale
slaughtering of the worthless CANNES thai
invest the streets, and which at al
times are a plague and nuisance, and
constant menace of the direst evil