The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-19
BIT BY MAD DOG.
w. G. McCune and J. w.
BrOkaW Victims.
Animal Creates a Panic on East
Sixth Avenue.
RAN AFTER CHILDREN.
One Boy Escaped by Climbing
Telegraph POles
w. Y. Peel and 7. S. Williams
Kill the Brute.
Both Injured Men Are to Be
Treated.

W. G. McCune a sewing machine
agent, and J. w. Brokaw. of 1715 East
Sixth avenue, were bitten by a New
. foundland dog supposed to have hydro
phobia, this morning shortly after
o'clock. Half a dozen other people were
attacked by the dog. and had their
clothes torn by its teeth. The animal
was shot to death shortly after biting
Mr. Brokaw by V. W. Peel. driver of q
coal wagon, and T. S. Williams COM
missioner of elections.
-Four bullets were shot into the ami
mals body and two into its head. and it
/ is claimed that not drop of blood
flowed from the wounds. This is said
to be proof that the dog was mad.
/ The dog next made his presence
Santa Fe depot on East Fourth street.
1t bit Mr.. McCune on the arm as he was
crossing the Santa Fe tracks. 1t also
chased a boy for about 100 feet. but
the boy escaped by climbing telephone
pole. 1t attempted to bite NUMBER
of other persons, and then went south
through the Santa Fe yards.
BY this time the police had been noti-
fed that a big black Newfoundland dog
was mad and biting people. and Officers
/ Feltner and Rosander were started out
]
The dog next made his appearance
known at the Sixth street bridge across
the Shunganunga- Here he met and bit
! j. w. BrokaW, infiicting a serious wound
on the wrist. It went east on Sixth, and
Mr. BrOkaW shouted to a number of
4 people ahead of the animal to look out
for him. There was general scatter
ing but among those who failed to get
out of the way was Sherm Williams, the
election commissioner The dog made
eift "a 4 friG n
Jams, but only succeeded in getting hold
I of the sleeve Of his oVercoat. Then the
! dog chased two little boys around
/ building, and tried to bite ore Of thell4s
but failed to do more than tear the
boys garments
w v. Peel was coming along on his
coal wagon and saw the excitement. He
lives at 1409 North Harrison street. lie
got off his wagon, and was going to
wade right in and fight the dog empty
handed Sherm Williams warned him
that the dog was mad
L don't care if it is. said Peel. 4 m
not afraid of it
Let's get a gun and then go after it, =
said Williams, who has had some eA~
perience with mad dogs before.
So Williams and Peel went to the res
idence of DR.. Mcfarland, 615 Brannel
street, and succeeded in borrowing a 50
canber revolver.
There was so much excitement in the
neighborhood by this time it was not
difficult to follow the dog Women were
standing in the doorways of the houses,
screaming to each other to look out for
the mad dog. Children who should have
been starting off for school were called
back and told to stay in the house
Men who had not taken to the jungle
were hunting around for clubs, pitcn-
forks and firearms.
Williams and Peel found the dog at
Seventh and Lake streets Peel had the
gun At distance of 40 feet he demon
strated that he knows how to shoot py
putting a bullet through the animals
heart Then he and Williams took
turns shooting at the brute until y
was thoroughly dead. The police did
not arrive till the dog was dead
Il guess Peel killed the dog with the
first shot" said Williams this morning.
He is a good marksman. But we put
two or three bullets through its heart.
and two or three more through its head
just to make it sure"
Mr.. McCune went to a doctor this
morning and had his wound Cauterized.
Mr.. Brokaw says he will go to Kansas
City to have a maidstone applied. AS far
as known there IS no maidstone in To
peka A maidstone. some people claim,
is about as effective as a Blarney stone
or q common paving brick, but there
are others who insist that they are OF
real value. A maidstone is foreign
growth obtained from the stomach of a
deer They are scarce something like
ambeTgris, the costly substance OBJ
tanned from the stOmachs Of deceased
whales
This is not generally supposed to be the
proper time of year for dogs to go mad.
Nest people associate mad dogs with the
hot, sultry days of midsummer.
''5ydrophobia'' means fear of water and
the popular impression is that dogs go
mad when they can not get water to drink
IN hot weather But there are other theo-
ries
one man said today that cold weather
is just the kind Of weather to make dogs
go mad. 1T freezes their brains" he said
and sharp cold snap almost always viii
start few dogs TO 60 mad
weather dogs md it hard to get enough
to eat, and that starvation frequently
drives a dog mad
Still, another theory is that an animal
bitten by a mad creature frequently does
not develop hydrophobia for some months
IF the first fifteen days go by without
hydrophobia.' said this man. the chances
are that it Will not develop at all for about
three months. Cold weather tends to re-
tard of development of the malady And
so this dog may have contracted his mad
ness some time last fall