Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-21
THE CATTLE EPIDEMIC.
Two Thousand Head Of Cattle Iniec'ep
with Pieuro-Pneumeuia are guar
antIned in Chicago
rbe plsease Supposed TO hnVe ,.,,.
from STOP Fed the Da,iy
from The Distiiieriss'
Ar yAnnAour, IOWA.

cpvsroN. Iowa, Sept. Galveston,
butcher AZ Farragut, purchased car
load az beef cattle at the stock yards In
Kansas city. Nine days after unloading
them at Farragut fifteen head were taken
sick and died Of Texas fever. The dis
ease has been communicated to another
herd. and stock owners are alarmed and
will resort to rigid measures TO prevent
further spread of the disease.
THE DISEASE IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Ill Sent. 2b.-New and
startling discoveries were made yesterday
by the state veterinarian in connection
with the pleuro-pneumonia cases in this
vicinity, and II is believed that the live
stock commissioners, who meet this
week, will find the problem OF stamping
out the disease a serious one. As stated
IN these dispatches yesterday, the COW
which took the disease 70 Carne's place
and caused the slaughter OF four other
head Of cattle there, came from the Harvey
farm, aud quarantine notice was served
there after five cases we're found and two
killed.
Or. Caswell, state veterinarian, In
the course Of his investigations there,
came TO the conclusion that the disease
was brought 10 the farm In herd Of cows
belonging to a mllkman named Quint,
who kept them before that at the Phoenix
dIstiilery, corner OF Clayburne place and
North branch. That place was the scene
OF his work yesterday, and the 100 head
OF cattle were all inspected. OF this num-
Der about three hundred we're steers fat
tenipg Tor market, and the remainder
were mich cows. Three cases OF pleurQ
were found and isolated, and the yards
and cattle were then quarantined. IL
now appears that the milkmen
who feed the COWS the distil-
lery swirl slop, ere in the habit
OF changing them from one distlllery TO
another quite frequently, and, OF course,
there Is no telling how far the disease
may have spread In this manner. All
COWS and cattle of all kinds at each dis
tIllery are fed in stalls, under shed roofs,
and one case in the sheds would contaml-
nate every creature at the place AZ well
as the buildings The three isolated cases
ut Phoenix viii be watched, and slaugb-
tered and the remainder Of the3ll00 Will
be kept inf quarantine until the commits
sioners take up the case.
IL was found that the same custom pre-
vailed among milkmen boarding their
cattle at the distillerles as on the Harvey
farm. As soon as the COW grew too III
10 give milk she was ~ once disposed OF
without any investigation being made as
TO her condition. The men In charge ad.
mitted that they knew there had been
some sickness about the sheds, but said
that no veterinarian had been called In a:
they thought 1t was plain lung dlsea 'e
From the testimony of these persons Il
was evident that the disease had been
hanging about the Phoenix sheds all last
winter and summer, and It was further
evident that the Quinn herd came Their,
from the Empire dlstillery ut the corne
OF West Klnzie and Seymour streets, an,
that cattle had gone from phmnix durini
the last few months to the Chicago dis
tillery, at corner OF Black Hawk stree
and Elston avenue. Under che rule o
constant changes by these milk herd
there Is absolutely no telling where tn
contagion may have reached.
DR.. Ceswell made visit to both tn
Chicago and Empire dlstillerles, but di,
not have time to make anything NOR
than a hasty examination; but, with tn,
testimony In sight In regard TO tn
changes OF the Quinn cattle and othe
herds, he could do nothing else tina
quarantine both places. Five hundre
head are under the ban IN the Chicag
distillery yards, and 206 at the En-
pire. Taking In the lis hea
at the Harvey farm, the commlssio
win lind, when IL meets, that II has zoe
head OF cattle on It's hands which hay
been fully exposed to pleuro-pneumoni
and IT rests with the commission as
what shall be done, The commissions
have power to quarantine and slaught,
animals In the infected districts, and a.
praise the animals slaughtered, (exce
those already attacked by disease), an
value from the state.