The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-07
Aerciiui Methods of killing Cat.
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Aerctiul Mel1ouS Of KILLING Cat.
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FroEl the Lapdan Times, oet2
Experiments were yesterday made al
the Ellington cattle market to illustrate
tho uSs Of dynamite IA a means ior
sIIushlering cattle humsnely. Mr..
Thomas johnson, OF Dndley, killed three
buIlocks in this way. To show the safety
with which this explosive can be EN-,
ployed, small quantities were first burnt
without any explosion. The charge with
which the cattle were afterWard killed
consisted Of about an ounce Of pinki.h,
pasiy substance, into which had been
plunged detonator in fuse.
The bull0cks, bought that morning 10
the market, were led into Mr.. Thomaa
Cross slaughIsr-house, and tied up to
posts there in the ordinary way. Al
though other animals had recently been
dispatched with the pole-aIe close BY,
the bullocks selected betrayed no con-
'ciousnes' OF their approaching fate.
There wa' no tremor or sweat upon them.
The operator, fondling them, passed
across the forehead filles OF string se-
cured around the horns, and 40 arranged
that midway between horns and eyes, and
thus ia The centre Of the forehead, the
charge OF dynamite vas placed, which
formed the central and only ornament Of
the flat, Then the fuse wss fred, and
in two cases the bullock was killed st
once by the explosion OF the ounce OF
dynamite.
A hole Nai maaa in the skull By the
force of tho explosion, but the conclusion
vas entirely local, sad people standing
close by felt nothing. They heard loud
report. The animals we're Immediately
ptthed By passing = cane down their
spinal marrows 10 remove all sensibility,
and in quarter Of an hour their carcass.
esr atripped oil the hide and divided into
two, were hanging up ss sides Of beef,
ready to be transported to the metropoli.
tao dead.meas market. The brain was
found to be entirely broken up. With
the 6rst bullock tried the experiment was
less succesIful. The charge had been
placed too low. The animal WA tslled,
but struggled on the ground. A man was,
however ready with the pols.axe. he
Inots once, and no more, and the poor
beast was out Of its agony.
AfterWard bullock waI killed with
one bloE OF the pole.aIe, and another BY
the French method, the vertebra being
seyared With knife at the back OF the
neck. In each case the cane was used
Immediately Giterward. Allthrse modes
Of slaughter, properly carried into effect,
seemed as little cruel az is consistent
with tho necessity OF inaicting death; but
the pole axe and knife, both used with
conIummste skill yesterday, require con.
siderable practice to be employed with
de-tsrity. In country slaughter houies,
where the men have leas experience, a
thick. browed bull Ia sometimes struck
again and again before he dies.
Tho dynamite may be applied At leis.
urs to the proper place, and the operator
ought 10 be able to count on keeping II
there. An objection to its use is the re-
port which 1t makes. The second bullock
was obviously frightened by the noise oil
the explosion Of the frat charge. The
three animals .were killed in three min
utes at the expense Of about 81. In the
Black Country, where dynamite Is CON.
mon as blasting material for mines, 1t il
said to be already 10 practical use in the
alaughter.house.