Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-07-16
HYDROPHOBIA DEATH
Abran Valencia Died Yesterday at
the County Jail After Suffering
Terrible Agony.
The RESULT OF A DOG BITE
A Number of Other Persons Suffered Dog
Bites Recently-An Order by the
Mayor to Shoot Every Canine
at Sight.

Abran Valencia died in terrible agony
at the county Jail at 2:l5 yesterday
morning from the effects of a dog bite.
He was discovered in a deplorable state
of mind On Galisteo street near the cap
itol on Saturday morning, clasping a
crucitiX in his wounded hand and his
little son reading to him from a prayer
book. The passers-by concluded the
man was demented. notified the county
authorities and he was taken to Jail.
where it was soon found that he was
subject to violent paroxysms, enough
resembling the symptoms of h%ydropho-
biaL to make it dangerous for persons to
be about him. He was placed in irons,
one leg was shackled to the floor, and
his arms were %pinioned. A physician
was called and administered a nerve
quieting potion, but the paroxysms m
tinued at more frequent intervals. Is
NJ. Read and others called to see Va
lencia in the forenoon, and again about
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon Mr.. Read
called. He found the patient laborine
under an intense ervou strain. trem.
bling in every part of his body, palt
and verging on delirium to that extent
that he could not give rational reptile:
to his questions. In this state Nalencif
continued till 100 yesterday morning
when he went into a dreadful spasm
more violent than any previous attack
According to the Jail officers, his agon!
was terrible. indeed. Earlier in tn
evening he had complained of a con
stant burning thirst, but could take NJ
water, the sight of it making hin
deathly sick. In this last paroXysm n
enashed his teeth and froth ran from
his mouth. He raved madly and moanet
and ragged so that no one dared go nea
his couch. At 2:15 he died, and at tina
moment Deputy Sheriff Huber says tn
white froth stood out over his moutl
half an inch thick. Doctors disagree a
to there ever having been a case of ny
d%rophobia, strictly speaking, but call !
blood poison, or "a disease of the i'm
agination," or what not. the fact re
mains that here was a terrible, an ag
onizing death, brought about by tn
patient having been bitten by a dog
The physicians, in their wisdom. ma,
bubble at scientific technicalities, blu
the people who saw this poor fellow
prior to his death and during his las
agonizing moments will not be readil.
convinced that it wasn't a sure case o
what is commonly called hydrophobia
his friends at A o'clock yesterday morn
ing, a woman named Librada Valenci'
being the person actively in charge, an
the burial took place this morning.
b. NJ. Read knew the deceased yer,
well, having been employed as his at
torney in securing a divorce for him
He was a farmer, residing near Pecos
town. "It was about the 9Th of June,
Think said Mr.. Read, 'soon after
had secured the decree of divorce, tha
Valencia came to Santa Fe, and wa
bitten by a TRANCE dog. He showed mi
the index finger on his right hand, ant
there was a triangular shaped f1esl
wound just above the knuckle. 1t dit
not look like a very sore wound. an
seemed to be healing, but / said t.
him: Man alive, you should attend t,
that: you may be either very sick o
dying in thirty days OF so if you do not,
and / advised him to go to a physician
and have the finger amputated. He dit
go to DR.. Diaz. but concluded that eau
terization would serve to cure it. l di'
not see or hear of the man again unit
Saturday, when I found him in sucl
sad plight at the county jail"
Mr.. Read said for such wounds tn
native people have an infallible RENE
dy, sure to cure when promptly taken
and this is to stuff the victim with al
the garlic he can eat for several day:
and apply a poultice of garlic to the
wound.
Within thirty days seven people have
been attacked by vicious dogs in Santt
Fe, and the situation has aroused sucl
widespread fear that to-day the mayo
issued an order authorizing all peace
officers in the city to shoot on sigh
every dog found running at large OF
the streets. Four or five CANNES bit tn
dust this forenoon on the strength O.
this order.