Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-12
MAD DOGS RAMPANT
The Plague That Has Come
 Upon Phillipsburg, N. J.
PEOPLE FLEEING THE PLACE.
Four Children Bitten and Sent to New
 York for Treatment.

tic Animals in Phillipsburg and Vi- cinity--Horses and Cattle Go Mad in the Fields-Hundreds of DOgs Killed Com. mittees of Safety Organized--Trained Nurses to be Sent to the Scene.
 PH1LL1PsBURG, N. J., Oct. 12.-Mad dogs have so terrorizsd people in and about this place, that many families have sought safety in other places.
 Before the people became aware of their danger two dogs with the most virulsnt form of hydrophobia bit dozen others, and they in turn inoculated cattle, horses, swine, sheep and cats.
 This plague began about ten days ago, and there is scarcely farm or home in Warren County that has not ono or more domestic animals suffering from rabies.
 Henry T. Snyder, of Phialipshurg, went to New York Saturday with four pa tients for Dr.. Paul Gibier's Pasteur Hospital.
 The patients are William Snyder, 12 years old; James V. Macey. g years old; Lena Volkmar, 12 years old, and Alice, Lena's sister, aged eight.
 MT. Snyder's son William was bitten by cat, and the others had their arms | and legs lacerated by dogs. The four little ones were bitten on Friday and their wounds were not dis covered until that night, when Mr. Shy der volunteered to take the quartet to New York for treatment. Ten or twelve days ago strange cur dog made it's appearance in the village and took refuge in the barn of Jonathan Buckwalter, who owned a pointer, kept in kennel in the barnyard. The vagrant cur developed hydropho- bia week or so ago and bit the pointer. | Then the pair, raving mad, roamed about the country three days, biting all kinds of domestic animals, from pigs to horses In all, this pair of brutes bit 12 or IA other dogs, and people in town and coun- | try have been in state or terror ever since. In fact, people won't go out of doors if they can avoid so doing. Twenty or thirty families have lefA Phillipsburg and gone for safety to o4her towns. Dr. Horace Ditmus is reported as saying that Jacob Jacobus, a furrier, of Coopersburg, five miles from here, died two days ago from cat bite, and | that his son John Is in convulsions from the bite of horse that went mad in his stall between uight and morning, and tore piece out of the young mans shoulder.
 Dr. Ditmus has IT patients in whom rabies are apparent. He has no hopes of their recovery.
 There are seven doctors in and about Phillipsburg, and they are all worked stricken by the awful disorder.
 From three to five attendants are re- quired to control . patient in convul- sions, and gloom is settled over the en- tire county. Horses and cattle by the dozen have gone mad in field and st able, and the roars and shrieks of the crazy animals continue night and day. Thirty ] | of cattle, made mad by rabies, have bean shot, and scores upon scores of swine and sheep have been slaughtered for the same reason.
 Hundreds of dogs in the county have been killed, whether afflicted by hydro phobia or not. In Sancon, where the first domestic animals were killed, tho carcasses were at once buried. A day o, so later it was discovered that the graves fed upon the bodie&
 Watch was kept on the ensuing night, and dogs came from nnilss.away and Iaorosi the Lehigh line te feed on the cArriop. Now armed men guard every pit in which the bodies of mad hrut3 are buried, as it was feared that dogs who are of thG inoculated flesh would, in turn, go mad and carry the dread distsmper into other l counties.
 A number of people in Warren County who have relatives suffering from tho first symptoms of hydrophobia have written to Dr. sGibisr, the hydrophohis expert of Now York. The doctor, iz response to all such applications, said i would be useless to sond him patients .,i1 which rabies had developed, for he could do them no good.
 Committees of safety were last week organized in Phillipsburg. DinbY, Cen treville, Bleekertown, Coopersburg anG Lower and Upper Sancon. They have taken charge of all the people hltten by mad dogs, no matter whether tho symp toms of hydrophobia have appeared O, not.
 Armed mon patrol the roads and streetl l night and day on the lookout for rabie animals.
 When Mr Snyder raturns to Phillips burg he will bring 12 trained nurses witt him from New York. This was author i1ad Inv tho coro Nittao nf