The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-01-07
EXCITING CHASE
Ola Big Mad Dog Through New
York Streets.
AN HEROIC POLICEMANS WORK
shuts Himself ln an ArsawAy with che
RusinE Creature and Kiis 1.-THE Dog
IIaa Bitten Three PsrDonI-RsvOiTsr
Doc, II. Work at ths Right Instant.

Wild and general alarm was caused In
a large section OF the East Side last even
ing, says Tuesdays Advertiser, when a
mad dog of great size ran through the
streets. Two children and man we're
bitten, and a crowd numbering hundreds
pursued the animal before he was killed.
a few minutes after o'clock Patrol
man John ]. Reilly was standing at Ave-
nue. G and Eighth street, when number
OF children ran screaming up to him and
told him that Avenue d, on the same
street, there was mad dog. When the
policeman had hurried TO the scene he
found q, number of excited people. who
told him that the dog had run down to
Sixth street and turned toward the river.
The mad animal. which was not only
huge but coal black. wound In and out
thestreets, spreading terror wherever he
appeared by his cleaning eyes and foam
fiecked mouth, and It was not until the
policeman had been on the chase for NJ
teen minutes that he caught sight OF
him. This was az Avenue c and Seventh
street. He was lhen running through
that street in the direction Of Avenue d.
The Policeman, with his revolver drawn,
and followed by crowd of 200 people
made directly for the mad beast
Before Avenue d had been reached
the dog had turned suddenly and snap.
ped at Clara LIchtenstein, thirteen years
old. of No. 254 Fast Twenty-seventh
street, as she stood screaming on q door
step. She was bitten twice On the right
hand and her flesh badly torn.
Almost nj the point where this child
was bitten Patrolman Reilly found two
men In q light wagon. and, taking ms
seat, the rest OF the chase w1s continued
by the aid OF the vehicle. The dog kept
on, turned Into Avenue D, went 20
Eighth street. turned again and ran 10
Avenue a, AZ that point the policeman
In his vehicle, got close enough to chance
a shot. He fired, but the dog was not
struck. Just after this shot was fired
the savage dog sprang at an unknown
man who carried q large bundle IN his
arms. This man held the bundle In
front OF him, so that the dog fastened his
teeth in one side nf 1t before he rushed
ON, He covered his former tracks, and
got 10 Seventh street, and there bit Her
man Miller, OF No. 335 East EiEhty-tirst
street, in the right wrist. Two minutes
later the dog, now seemingly exhausted,
crept into an areaway at No. 81 Seventh
street. Patrplman Reilly was close up
AZ this time.
He Jumped from the wagon, dashed
into the areaway after the dog, slammed
an iron gate shut, and was In a four foot
enclosure, at one end OF which the big
dog glared and CRASHED his teeth. The
frightened and screaming mob az people
who Joined In the chase blocked the
street, but kept at safe distance.
Patrolman Reilly took aim at the dog
with his revolver. Just as the shot rang
out the brute made spring. He was
still in the air when the bullet struck
him in the LEFT eve, and he fell in a heap
at the polic4tnan's feet,
The big crowd cheered and rushed for
ward. The policeman fired two more
ehots into the dogs body and then n
dozen men clarnbered over the iron rail-
Ing and trampled every sign OF life out
OF the dying beast,
In the meantime an ambulance had
been called from Bellevue Hospital and
surgeon looked after the injuries 10 the
I,,ehenstein child and to Herman Miller,
Half an hour after the dog had been Kill.
cd Samuel Goetz, fourteen years old, OF
No. 81 GOerch street. was takeR TO the
Union Market station by his father. The
boy was suffering from a severe wound
NJ the right arm. The father told that
the boy mad been bitten by the big black
dog in Lewis street.
The police learned that the dog had
been the property ot a bottilns Arm az
Avenue ID and Ninth street