The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-10-12
MAD DOGS RAMPANT
The Plague That Has Come
Upon Phillipsburg, N. },
PEOPLE FLEEING TIE PLACE
-Four Children Bitten and Sent to New
York for Treatment

Two RaBid Dogs Inoculatsd Many Douaes.
tic Animals In PhillipsburE and vi
sinity--Horses and Cattle Go Mad in tho
Flelds--Hundrcds Of Dogs killed Com.
mittess of Safety orEanized--T Trained
Nurses to be Sent to the Scene.
PHILLpsBURG, N. j., Oct 19-Mad
dogs have SO terrorized 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 virulent
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 one or more
domestic animals suffering from rabies
Henry H. Snyder, of Phillipsburg went
to New York Saturday with four pa
tionts for DR.. Paul Gibier's Pasteur
Hospital
The patients are William Snyder
II years old; James V. Macy, 9 years
old; Lena Nolkmar, u years old and
Alice, Leua.s sister aged eight
Mr. Snyder's son William was bitten
by a cat, and the others had their arms
and legs la a.crated by dogs
The four little ones were bitten on
Friday and their wounds were not dis
covered until that night when Mr. Sny-
der volunteered to take the quartet to
New York for treatment.
Ten or twelve days ago strange cur
dog made its appearance in the village
and took refuge In the barn of Jonathan
Buckwalter, who owned pointer, kept
In q kennel iu the barnyarl.
The vagraut cur developed hvdropbo-
bia week or so ago and Bit the pointer
linen the pair rayiug mad, roamei about
the country three days, biting all kinds
OF domestic animals, from pigs to horses
Ia all, this pair Of brutus bit , or "a
other dogs and people ia town and couu-
JIy nave been in @ state or terror ever
since. In fact, people WON'T 60 out of
doors If they can avoid SO doing.
Twenty or thirty families have left
Philhpsburg and gone orsaletv to other
towns. dr. Horace Ditmus is rsported
as saying that Jacob Jacoyu5, q furrigr.
@t Cooper-burg, five miles from here.
died two days ago from cat bite, aud
chat his son John is in convulsions from
the bite of q horse that went mad In his
stall between uight and morning, and
tore a piece out OF the young mana
shoulder.
DIR. Dltmus has II 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
night and day attending to people
stricken by the awful disorder.
From three to five attendants are re-
uuired to control patient in convul-
sions, and gloom IS settled over the en-
tire county Horses and cattle by tho
dozen have gone NAL in held and stable,
and the roars and shrieks of the crazy
animals continue night and day. Thirty
odd horses and more than that number
of cattle made mad by rabies, have been
shot, and scores upon scores Of swine and
sheep have been slaughtered for tho
same reason.
Hundreds of dogs in the county have
been killed. whether afflicted by hydro
phoba or not In Sancon, where the
first domestic animals were killed, the
carcasses were at once buried. A day or
so later it was discovered that the graves
had been torn open and some animal had
fed upon the bodies.
Watch was kept on the ensuing night,
and dogs came from milesaway and.across
the Lehigh line 60 feed on the C .rrion.
Now armed men guard every pit in which
the bodies Of mad brute5 are buried,
as it was feared that dogs who are of the
inoculated flesh would, in turn, go mad
and carry the dread distemper into other
counties.
A number Of people in Warren County
who have relatives suffering from the
first symptoms Of hydrophobia have
written TO Dr. .Gibier, the hydrophobia
expert of New York. The doctor, in
response to all such applications said it
would be useless to send him patients In
which rabies had developed, for he could
do them no good.
Committees Of safety were last week
organized in Phillipsburg, Dinby, Cen
treyille, BleeSertown, Coopersburg and
Lower and Upper Sancon. They have
taken charge Of all the people bitten by
mad dogs, no matter whether the symp-
toms Of hydrophobia have appeared or
not.
Armed men patrol the roads and streets
night and day on the lookout for rabiC
animals.
When Mr.. Snyder returns to Phillips
burg he will bring ~ trained nurses Will
him from New York. This was author
lied by the committee of safety.