The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-14
IT rs HYDR0PH0BIA
COUNCIL OF PHYSICIANS DECIDE
THAT THE DOG WAS MAD.

Rev. Beach VIII Leave This Morning for
Chicago to Take the Pasteur Treatment
Two Others Will Go AIso-The Horse
of Captain AppIing Became Mad and
was KiIIed-LIoyd Prior Is Bitten
Through the Lower Jaw by the Dog
His Tra1-GenerSI Alarm and Much
Uneasiness is Felt as to the Outcome.
Rev. Mr. Beach viii leave this morn
ing for Chicago where he viii take the
Pasteur treatment for the dog bite On
Sunday evening
This was decided upon at 2 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon after a consulta-
ton had with the physicians. and it is
probable that Mr.. Rankin's son and
also the son Of r. L Prior OF HOP South
Topeka avenue, and it is thought that
others will Also go If possible with the
minister.
A reporter for the Eagle called last
evening at the residence OF Mr.. Beach.
near the corner of Lawrence avenue and
Thirteenth street, and asked him with
reference 70 l4S plOpOSCA UP III
Beach said:
Il have never felt uneasy about the
bite. and can't say that 1 suffer any
particular pain and UP to noon today I
was lead 10 believe that nothing SER
ious would happen, but after dinner DR..
WilliamMinnick called TO see my wound
and when he had examined II he asked
me IL I felt able to ride down town with
him. told him 1 never felt better and
would go with him gladly. When We
had arrived at the office he called in
a number OF physicians and asked them
to examine my toe. which they did ana
without single exception they advises.
me to start Immediately for Chicago
and put myself under treatment.
"I told them that the wound was not
painful and that did not feel the least
uneasy, as 1 lieve the dog was crazy
end not afflicted with hydrOphobia and
that If the dog was really mad that the
tooth passing through my shoe and
sock q wear socks on Sunday at leasO
would clean all the saliva from the same
and that there could not possibly be any
Of the poison inoculated into my blood,
and that I did not feel able 10 incur this
expense at this time, unless they were
absolutely certain that such course
was necessary.
'"They examined the wound again and
said that if the case was theirs or any
of their relatives they would not lose a
moment in going and il was duty
owed not only to myself but TO my
family TO start at once, and one or the
men laid so bill on the table 10 show
that he was in earnest.
"Soon the result of the physicians
consultation was spread throughout the
city and my friends began coming in
and had nothing to stand by me but
stubbornness if did not go and yield
ed.
Il expected to start tonight but found
that I would be able to reach the
physician a the institute as soon by
waiting until morning as I should
provided I would start tonight and
tomorrow morning I Will start for CHI
cago by the Rock Island. and shall be
glad to meet all my friends at the depot
1 don't want them to feel uneasy about
me, for Notwithstanding the opinion
OF the physicians. which respect, I feel
fully confidant that when I reach the
institute and lay all the facts before
the physicians that they will decide
that l am in no danger and viii dis
charge me, and 1 will return to Wich-
tia, or rather run down TO Columbus,
Ohio. where my wife is visiting.
1.-The only thing that has bothered me
all the time is the fear that my wife
will hear of the affair and will worry
about il.
Il don't know much about the dog
before his arrival here Sunday evening
but have followed his trail pretty
thoroughly after he set his fang
through my toe. The dog did not be-
long to Mr.. Dold but 10 one of the men
working at the stock yards. When he
left the house and attacked the little
girls Of Mr.. Stewards just north Of
the church he jumped on the poarch Of
Mr.. SpriDgate. who ordered him away
when he sprans at him through a sceen
door, Mr.. SprinSate got his revolver
and followed the dog 10 the stable
where he told the owner, whose name
can not recall that his dog was mad.
BY this time quite a number OF men
had congregated and with the owner
they approached the stable where they
saw the dog standing in the door and
the owner calling him by name spoke
to him when he sprung at him Ike a
tiger and tore the sleeve Of his Goa.
He kicked him off when the beast
sprung at his throat and Mr.. Springate
shot him through the heart
Rev. Barnes Of the South Emporia
Methodist church tells me that the -
attacked his children during the after
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