Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-28
THE GAZETTE.
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY IS, 1892.
Terrible Fight With a Dog.

TcrriDle Elgnt w ltn Dog.
A large Newfoundland dog belonging
to Engineer Reiss, suddenly attacked
his owner Tuesday night, and q terrific
twenty minutes fight between the man
and brute followed, during which Mr..
Reiss was terribly bitten.
The dog was given to Mr.. Reiss's
eighteen-year-old son about two weeks
ago, and has been keptin the back yard
of Mr.. Reiss's home most of the time,
where he was fed and cared for by his
young master.
The dog seemed to suffer greatly
from heat Tuesday and in the after
noon was allowed to go into the base
ment of the house, where it laid at tlill
length on the floor and did not move
for several hours. II seemed to be very
i'll.
The family went upstairs immediate
" after supper without disturbing the
animal, which was left alone in the
basement. They thought no more
about the dog and were sitting on the
front steps, when suddenly they heard
O crash down stairs.
Mr.. Reiss went down to see what the
trouble was, and as he entered the
dining room he saw the great New
foundland rushing frantically around
the kitchen.
He saw that the noise he had heard
had been caused by the overtuning OF
table which the dog had run against.
AS Mr.. Reiss stepped into the room
the dog saw him, rushed at him and
sprang directly at his throat.
Mr.. Reiss threw up his left arm to
beat back the furious beast and the ami
mails teeth sank deep into the flesh just
below the elbow.
The man tried to shake the animal
of, but it kept its hold. He seized
chair and struck madly at it, but it did
not let so until they had reached the
kitchen.
Around aud around the kitchen the
man and brute fought out the battle.
Again and again Mr.. Reiss freed him
self but only to be attacked another
time, each time being bitten on the arm
below the elbow as he raised his fist to
guard his throat.
Mrs. Reiss had gone up stairs to at
tend to some household affair when her
husband left and she did not hear the
uproar until she returned. expecting to
find him awaiting her upon the front
steps.
AS the sound of the struggle reached
her she ran down stairs, and as she en-
tered the dining room Mr.. Reiss and
the dog were fighting there, having
L. H. frA,,, ba 1-itnban
The dog was about to make another
spring as she appeared in the hallway,
but seeing her he leaped at the woman
instead of the man and bit her on the
right hand.
This gave Mr.. Reiss his opportunity
and he jumped on the Newfoundland's
broad shoulders and seized him by the
neck.
Slowly he forced the brute back into
the middle of the dining room, while
Mrs. Reiss ran screaming to the stairs.
Then he suddenly let go of the dog
and jumped through the door, and
slammed it behind him as the animal
hurled himself against the other side.
Mr. Reiss had seven wounds on his
arm. His injuries and his wife's bitten
hand were dressed by DR.. Irving Haynes
at his Office, and while they were there
the younger Reiss returned home and,
not knowing what had happened, en-
tered the room where the dog was.
The animal seemed glad to see him
and was perfectly quiet and docile.
When his parents returned the young
man chained the dog.
Policeman Moore was sent to shoot
the dog, but Mr.. Reiss would not hear
of it, saying he wanted him to live so he
could tell whether he had hydrophobia
or not, and so know the actual danger
to his wife and himself from their
wounds.
Mr.. Reiss will in any event consult
DR.. Gibier, of the Pasteur Institute
~ Y. Herald.