Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-11
VICTIM OF \ DOG BITE.
Fearful Struggles of a Little Boy
 With Hydrophobia.
STRONG MEN COULD NOT HOLD HIM.

He snarled and Snapped at His Parents
 and Tore a Hole In the Wall With His
 Teeth-wRs Attacked by n Vicious DuIl-
 dog, Which Cannot Be Found.
 NEW YORK, July 11.-StrugGling in the frightful throes of hydrophobia 1O-year-old Joseph Rhein lay in small front room of his parents in the third story of a tenement house at 264 Belmont avenue, Newark, N. J. He raved and gnawed the bedclothing and the united efforts of five strong men were required to restrain him, and even then he threw them from him repeatedly as Dr. Charles Lehlebach stood beside his bed.
 His strength was marvellous and seemed to increase with each recurring convul- sion in spite of quiet injections of nor phine. His heartbroken mother and fa- ther, Mrs. and Mir. Tobias Rheiu, were there, with their four other small children, clinging about them with fright as the az onizing shrieks of the little sufferer rang through the house, followed by low, gut tural sounds resembling the snarling of an angry dog.
 The boy was bitten by bulldog owned by Netschert Brothers, grocers at Rose and Barclay streets, The animal is said to have had bad reputation for ugliness. Attacked by a Bulldog.
 Joseph was carrying two bundles of wood and some groceries, and as he passed | Netschert's store the bulldog sprang from si de door, and with growl fastened his teeth in the fleshy part of little Joseph's right thigh. His mother had the ugly look L, | to play with the children of the neighbor- hood and went on visit to Mrs. Stiner, his grandmother, some distance away. He spent yesterday afternoon playing in | the street near her house, and about 6 o'clock, when he was starting for home, told her for the first time that he had been | bitten by dog. She gave him about a | thim bleful of homemade wine and bot | tleful to carry home to his mother When he entered his home about o'clock his mother wanted to wash him, but he protested and would not go near the wa | ter He complained of a fever and pains in the head, body and legs, and said he | wanted to go to bed.
 He struggled against his mothers at | tempts to wash him until she desisted, and | after calling in Mrs. Heiulein and another neighbor ran for Dr. Lehlbach, whose of | flee is n mile away. but who is the family physician. While she was gone the little sufferer became spasmodic and frothed at | the mouth. He tried to bite the two wom- en who were watching over and trying to control him.
 He finally became so violent that they had to call for assistance. William Hein- lein, a six foot, broad shouldered man, re sponded, but even with his efforts the boy | could not be firmly held. At this juncture the boys father entered. He was surprised and unnerved but was forced to aid the neighbors in holding his child. | Dr. LehlbaCh arrived few minutes later and gave the boy morphine injections, causing temporary calmness. during which the boys father went to the fourth pre- cinct police station and reported the case, | requesting that Netschert Brothers be com pelled to kill the dog. This was at o'clock last night.
 | He grew uneasy a few minutes later and gradually became violent. While his father | and several others. who were called in by Dr. Lehlbach, held him he made desperate | efforts to bite them. He seemed to gain strength every instant and finally gave a great struggle, gasped and then lay eX- hausted.
 Threw the Men Aside.
 The spasms returned at regular intervals | of from three to five minutes and each one seemed worse than tGc other until five men were required 10 hold the boy as he strug- gled and shrieked in agony. With n sud den movement he threw them all aside as if they were straws and SprinGing erect in the center of the bed st ood EIariuS at them. | When they attempted to take hold of him again he suarltd and hit at them so Iviciously that Dr. 1.rhlhach warned them
 to keep away from him.
 The next instant he dropped in exhaus ltion, but again the awful convulsiCn came Iupon him and the same struggle was re ipeated several times until the men, too, be lcame exhausted. Then, to alleviate the
 sufferings of the boy, Dr. Lehlbach admin Iistered chloroform, under which his Strug gles soon subsided.
 The boy in his convulsons tore hole ir
 the plaster wall against which the bed
 stood, and tore the paper from the wall by seizing it between his teeth. He also tor
 open a cornhusk pillow, Lifting at it in eacf
 of his spasms.