Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-30

southwestern Kansas; fifteen were
found dead In the cars, aud fifty five
had been thrown out dead on the way
ana great many others were
sick and had been trampled on.
DIR. Pearson, the state veterinarian.
and DIR. Dewolf, the city health COM
missioner, declare the trouble to be
bloody murrain. The entire herd, in.
Guiding those Of yesterday, were
ordered killed making about five hun
dred head In all. The officials declare |
the cattle were evidently diseased be-
lore shipment, and from all that can /
be learned the entire herd was in the |
Kansas City stock yard thirty DAYS |
before shipment to this city.
IT Is not believed the trouble,
whether it is Texas fever or bloody |
murrain, will extend any further.
ANOTHER LOT INFECTED.
ST LOUIS, July "a dispatch from
Roodhouse, Ill, says sixteen carloads
OF cattle from the Indian territory ar
rived at the Chicago & Alton stock
yards there Sunday night; nineteen
head died on the road from this city,
and 1t was believed that the whole lot
were affected with the Texas fever.
All that could stand up of the twelve
carloads were forwarded to Chicago.
The remainder, seventy.two In num-
Der. were dead Monday morning.
Andy Jacobs of Kansas City, in
charge of the cattle, denied they had
the Texas fever and said they were
poisoned by eating "locon weeds on
the trail, but l. {. Tiffany, veteri-
nary surgeon from Jacksonville, pro-
nounces the disease Texas fever.
The stock yards Mt Roodhouse have
| Afofp a 4, al,
for Chicago by this route were un-
loaded at Jacksonville last night in
: stead Of at Roodhouse. The matter
/ has caused great excitement among
: cattle and railroad men.
NO DISEASE IN KANSAS.
r KANSAS CITY. July 20 --Concerning
the report of the Texas cattle fever the
stock-yards officials state that con-
signmept of cattle We're received here
from the Indian territory which were
affected with the Spanish or Texas
fever, though 1t was not known at the
time. y portion of these went t.
J. Manhattan, Kas., and the remainder
to Chicago. The yards here have beer
: thoroughly disinfected. AS far as |,
l. known there are no other cases of tn,
l. disease here.
n THE INDICATOR.
i. KANSAS CITY, July 29.-After .
careful investigation the Live Stool
;, Indicator makes the following state
:. ment: There has not been and is no
4 any Texas fever among cattle at thi
70 point or In this neighborhood. Tn
~ cattle shipped from here in which tn
a. so-called Texas fever has DEVELOPS
y passed through the yards, but Will
>. here did not exhibit any symptoms c
n. the disease. 1t was contracted by cor
tact with thr ugh Texas cattle in tn
indian territory.
HIGH AUTHORITY.
10 KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 2a.-D
W y. III. Paaren, state veterinarian, hs
D, not yet made his official report but In
d, asserts tonight his investigations hay
il developed the fact that these Gait
= are afflicted with splenic or Tex;
6, fever.
OF Health Commissioner DeWolf
d. this city concurs in the opinion al
II, exhibits in his office the spleens al
OF kidneys of some of these cattle whi(
T. died and thev are found to eXhil
strongly marked signs of fever. {
b. the other hand many stockmen al
es some persons familiar with Tex
in fever do not believe it is that diseas
ne They assert in all cases
u Texan fever that the eXcretia a
", very hard and that the same is in
les measure true of sickness from drin
an ing alkali water, and that the deaf
in this instance could not have resu
ed from either of these, as the eScrel
]. are entirely natural. They profess
tn believe deaths are caused by cong
ID. ton of the bowels caused by drinki
too much water after long thirsti
and after being over-heated. The
cattle belong to Frasier d Oberly
W, Kansas City, and are from their rant
~ in the Indian territory. The numb
VI received is ego, of which 100 arriv,
ny this morning or this number
IN have died or have been killed to l
ht lieve them of agony. Nine we
killed by the veterinarian today al
he says that they
showed signs of Texas few,
The living ones are at the guaranti
"e pen. where they are being confint
en- and it will not again be used for Gait
j.. but when empty will be scrubbed,
OO; floored and used for hogs.
> is The health department
Or charge of the entire dro
and the health commissioner I
dertakes that the meat of none
these animals will be allowed to
eri- into the market while the least dant
YES exists. He has given permission
. of the firm the herd was consigned to
sell none of the infected members
En-. ~ the herd unless subject to inspect
IL by the department.
bod
it'll CHICAGO.