The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-03-25
A MAD DOG PANIC.
Two Children and a Man Attacked
and Bitten by the Brute.

New OK, marcn ia mao dog
caused panic in the vicinity of
Ninth avenue and For y-ninth street
yesterday morning. He bit two chill
dren and man and was finally killed
in the back yard of the Twenty-sec.
ond Precinct Station Houoe, in West
Forty-seventh stree. .r.... t..
The first victims were Thomas and
John CORDIALLY, aged respectively 9
and 7 years. They had been sent
from their home, at No. 337 West
FOrty-ninth street, to a grocery al the
corner of Ninth avenue and Forty
seventh street, AMI were accomp MED
by their 5-year-oli sister. When
near Ninth avenue, at about l1:30
o'clock, they were frightened by the
sudden appearance of large yellow,
mongrel dog. His mouth was COW
cred with foam and his eyes gIased
with a vicious light. H. snapped
and snarled at everything he passed. S
The children started to run away.
The rabid brute pursued them and in
a few bounds overlook the youn. err
boy. He fss,ened his venom ,us !.
tangs in tie boys thigh and threw
him to the ground. Then he savage Z
ly bit and tore the boys flesh un'Il
the little fellow tainted from fright
and pain.
The older boy, holding his little ]
sisters hand, was running away as ]
fas. as his l-gs would carry him, when
the dog took after him and sprsng up.
on bis back. The boy .ried to fight
The brute off ard, in ioiog so. carried
him some distance from the little girl,
who bad been shocked down in the !
struggle, thus saving her. The deg
fastened his teeth once i'll the boys
eg and then ran throu h Forty ninth
street. o1fe
The p ople on the street saw the
attack on the children an hurried
out Of the way of the i @ The dog
next turned down Eighth avenue,
Swapping as he ran, but he bit no one
until he reached Forty eighth street.
There John Do10v0n, laborer, who
lives at Ten III avenue and. Fifsieth
rect, struck az him with a cane.
The brute sprang at Donovan and
caught the mans right hard in his
teeth, intiic.ing very painful wound.
Donovan took to his heels and the
dog had the avenue to himself uptil
be reached Forty-seventh street. Here
he was turned by truck into Forty
seventh rect, where the warning
shout of Mad dog :" causei the peo1
pie on the street to seek places of
safety.
The brute was exhausted when bid
reached Ninth avenue. A p9liceman
stopped him at this point and man
aged t. throw rope over his head
The animal. painting. bu: Ill snap
ping and snarling, was DR. gged ID
the stalion-house, and furth mis-
chief from him YVES stopped with
pistol ball. He was undoubtedly mad
The boys that had been bitten an
the sons of John CORDIALLY. TheJ
we're taken to Roosevelt Hospitsl .
soon as possible. The injuries of til
younger boy are dangerous, evei
without considering the probability o
hydrophObis. The flesh of his thigI
was terribly mutilated. The othe
boy was painfully hurt, but his wound
would not be alarming but for the fac
they were inflicted by mad dog Tn
wounds of both were refully eauter
lied and treated with antiseptic dress
ing, and the boys were sent home
The parents of the lads are alarme
over the consequences of the dog bite
however, and the boys will be take
TO the Pasteur Institute in this cit
for treatment. Donovan's mutilate]
hand was, cauterized at drug store
but he is apprehen>ive of the cons
quences and will he inOcu 'ated for by
drophobis. .a.s s;ssr OF I'd
The dog was said to be a stray ami
NAL picked up and cared for by O.
firemsns 9and policemen In Fort
Sax nth Ar -. fffst