The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-03
ALL THE HORSES
HAVE INFLUENZA
Serious Epidemic Has Struck
Salt Lake.
SEVERAL ANIMALS HAVE DIED
NINETY PER CENT OF SALT
LAKE HORSES SICK.

An epidemic is going about among
the horses Of Salt Lake that threatens
to carry off many valuable animals;
already several have died and many
more are seriously i'll. It is estimated
that 80 per cent Of the horses in this
city have been attacked. The disease
in its worst stages resembles pneu-
monia or lung disease; in its lighter
form il paTtakes of the nature of in
fiuenza. The first symptoms are a
cough and a running at the nose.
Among the valuable animals that have
fallen victims to the disease is one of
the fine driving horses owned by A. H.
Tarbet that died during the weez. He
was valued at $500. A number of other
imported driving horses of the city
have been attacked, including the fine
team recently purchased by Lindsay
r. Rogers. but thus far most of the
valuable animals have escaped serious
results.
The epidemic has been running for
four months, but until quite recently
very little attention was paid to it, and
it was not considered serious; but with
the approach Of cold weather the dis
ease seems TO. grow more malignant,
and there are apprehensiOns in many
quarters. It is contagious and lasts
from ten days to two weeks, and some
times il returns to the attack the sec
Ond or third time.
Dr.. J. Carson, the veterinary surgeon
who looks after the health of the
horses at the stables Of the Salt Lake
Livery & Transfer company, said when
questioned on the subject last evening:
I have lost none Of my patients yet
from this disease. 7 don't consider it
necessarily fatal if treated in time. [
returned two weeks ago from Okla
hOma and I found the disease there
Just the same as it is here. I under
stand that il is running throughout the
entire country. It is in the nature of
an epizOOtic and is more troublesome
than dangerous. The bad cases par
take of the nature of pneumonia.
Disease Not Dangerous.
Tom Mccoy does not take a serious
view of the troEble. ct don't amount
to much" he said. ct seems to be
quite general and is in all the stables
in the city, as well as mine, but if it is
treated properly and il time Il amounts
TO but very little. Two good horses
have died at our place recently, and I
an awfully sorry for it, but their
OOcA tlAo were not unE 70 LHlS disease.
They died quite suddenly and from
something in the nature of bloat One
OF them was DR.. Beatty's and the other
was Mrs. p. J. Donahue's. None Of our
horses is seriously sick with the cpl
dennis and I don't look for any bad re-
suits"
DR.. Charles W. Mum, one of the vel.
known veterinary surgeons of Salt
Lake said.
This disease is in the nature of sub
acute bronchitis in its first stages. It
is not fatal If cared for in time. l
have treated 200 horses in the city and
have lost but two. Ny treatment Is
black oil on the tongue and mustard
given in mush. Fully 90 per cent of
the horses OF the city have been at
tackled by the epidemic, including such
line horses as Keith's and Kearns'. All
the horses Of the Troy laundry are suf-
fering from the disease. The epidemic
IS travelling west and came to Salt
Lake from the east. 1t was quite fatal
IN such cities as Omaha, Kansas City
and Denver"