River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-01-13
THE Foe IN LONDON.

Loss az Life i'm the streets aud ON tn,
San"is - extraordinary MOrtalitl
Among the Beasts at the SmithGCld
Cattle show.
Correspondence Of the New York World.
LONDON, December 11.-This is the
third day of the extraordinary fog
which has almost paralyzed all life in
London since Tuesday morning. On
Tuesday the fog caused the loss of four
lives and injuries by the score yester-
day four other persons were known TO
have been drowned in the canals, and,
from the large number Of missing
persons reported to the police, il is
feared that many others have met with
the same fate. But the most extraor
binary disaster caused by the fog, has
been the effect produced by il upon the
cattle on exhibition at the annual show
Oh the Smithtield club in Agricultural
nan. On Monday, when the show was
opened, there was not a single case of
indlsposltlon among the large number
OF cattle that paraded beforetheiu Judges.
ana at the present writing at least a
third OF the number have disappeared
from their stalls. The simple explapa-
tlon that Is given is that it is the long
continuance OF fog vitiating the air of
the hall that has occasioned such
wholesale destruction of beasts. ANY
way, the dismal fact is that siuce early
yesterday morning AZ least twenty OF
the exhibited animals, many of them
the chief prize holders, have either
died or been slaughtered for the sake
OF saving the value of their carcasses.
while at o'clock last evening q care
full enumeration of the empty stalls
disclosed the startling truth that il had
been thought prudent to remove 90 of
the unfortunate creatures. Barford
street, on which are the gates of the
cattle yard, all yesterday afternoon
and evening presented a strange APP
pearance. In the fog and by link-light
there was ranged in a long line that ex-
tended even beyond the Liverpool road
q large number OF those peculiarly
shaped vehicles used for the convey
ance of sick and disabled animals
great numbering, Gathering boxes on
wheels, but known among the fsater-
nifty that affect them as "floats and
each in its turn drew up to the yard
gates to receive its sorry freightage
and hurry of to make room for the
next, and the next, of line that seemed
to be endless. Within the building the
spectacle was strange and striking.
The attendance Of visitors was as great
as is usual on second shilling day.
possibly greater, on account of the ru-
NOR that had got abroad of the start.
ling mortality that had seized on the
large animals; but the stalls were not
more than a third filed. Sight
seers naturally made for that point
where the beast of beasts, Mr.. Walters
light gray heifer, was to be seen; but,
like many more, that renowned animal
had vanished, though whether to the
slaughter house or TO more salubrious
quarters could not be ascertained. The
fog plague had stricken the poor crea-
lures in the most cratic manner. Here
in whole long row no more than half
a dozen vacant stalls might be counted,
while in that Immediately adjoining as
many as five and-twenty description
boards hung idle, many of them gaily
decorated with the rosettes and RIB
bons that denote animals that are
specially distinguished. Big and little
oxen have alike fallen victims, the
giant of four-and-twenty hundred
weight, and the compact steer of barely
seventeen. Even the tough and wlry
natives OF the Highlands, with their
enormous breadth and depth of chest
and healthfulness of lungs, had, in at
least two cases, been unable to hold
out against the deadly gray mist that
seems to be almost as inimical TO brute
life as fumes of charcoal are to human.
1t is not easy to conjecture what will
be the result supposing that, az on
Tuesday, the fog increases aud grows
blacker and denser toward midnight.
IL is quite evident that there are scores
of the unfortunate creatures who are
but ill-prepared for a prolongation of
the attack of the wondrous enemy.
Within an hour of closing time last night
there was not a single beast on his legs /:
all We're lying or kneeling down, and
many of them gasping, md with froth
on their mouth and nostrils, denoting
their pItiable condition. IL was a
sight that the great majority of the
visitors had not reckoned on, and in
stead of, as on ordinary occasions,
passing on with convenient speed along
the various avenues, taking note as
they went, now were TO be seen in fifty
different places groups of a hundred or
so of men and women crowding around
luckless beast, aud unintentionally
diminishing his scanty chances OF exis-
tence. Strangely enough, neither the
sheep nor the pigs are to any alarm
ing extent affected by the fog. The
latter snore AID gasp and make apo
pletic gurgling noises in their throats
no less and no more than usual, and
the sheep, though far from lively, ex.
hibit no grave symptoms.
COlOring the Eye.
Prof. Lewis is credited with deyising
a very ingenious means OF cOloring
opacities IN the corner of the eye. The
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