New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-27
CUR IN WILD RUN BITES
SCORE IN JERSEY CITY
Sinks Teeth Into Women and
Children on Their Way
to Church.
CROWD PURSUES IN VAIN
Mongrel, Exhausted After
Three Mile Panic, Shot by
Policeman as 1t Lay
Painting on Ground.

For more than an hour and half yes
tcrday morning IA mongrel dog, frothing at
the mouth and snarling. swapping ana
biting at persons i'm the streets, ran
through Jersey city. followed, at different
times in the chase. by men on bicycles,
mounted patrolmen, automobiles and men
and boys armed with sticks. stones ana
lassos. The hunted beast. after having
run more than three miles. was finally so
exhausted that it dropped from eNhaus-
ton. It was then shot to death by po-
liccmau
Before giving up its life. however. the
yellow mOngrel had bitten at least ten
persons, mostly children OF their way to
Sunday school. Those bitten were at
tended at hospitals and aftcrward went
TO their homes.
The dogs head was removed from the
body. and will be sent to the Pasteur In
stitute. in Manhattan. whore it will be de-
tcrmined whether the animal was suffer
ing from rabies.
\ partial list OF those bitten by the dog
follows:
CALIAGHAN. George. fourteen years old. 80.
- f.aiulaw avenue. bitten on lett arm.
CNRDlNO. John twelve years, No ~ Central
avenue. lcit arm.
FISHER. Harry fourteen years, NO. w wen
-i,r gNcnUH. right hand.
FLEGSCHDI'R. Joseph fourteen years, No. -
Hancock avenue. right arm
LOI'RSKONSKI. Anna. thirty two years NO.
- jefferson avenue, left arm.
PIERCE Florence. six years 40. ioS Pail
sad" avenue. on face.
SCHLElN. David. six years, No. 81 Palsade
avenue. left hand.
SWANSON. John. five years. 40 80 Webster
avenue. right hand.
TAMF. Edna May, six years. No. % N"wNirh
avenue. lcff check
WAGNER. Marian. nine years. No. % Nayer-
Us street, night hand.
David Schleiu was taken 10 the Pasteur
Institute in Manhattan by his parents,
where ne was treated for his wounds and
later taken back to his nome. The Tamp
child was taken to the City Hospital, in
Jersey city. and later sent TO her home.
All the other persons bitten were treated
at Christ Hospital. Jersey city.
The dog was first seen at South street
near Hancock avenue. when il leaped at
Florence Pierce. sinking its teeth in her
check and then running on. pursued by a
crowd OF yelling boys ana men. WIZ
with fear now. the mougrcl dashed
through crowds Of men. women and chill
dr.n ON their way 10 church and SUNDAY
school CONSERVATION spread in all direc-
tious and everybody within range Of tn,
dog teeth ran 10 shelter
with Iu ever increasing crowd at is
heels. the dog ram ziezas course through
the streets, leaping in the air at times to
escape missiles hurled at d. Upon som"
occasions. when IL could make it ESCAPE
iu no other manner. the animal leaped at
those iu its path. siuliins its teeth in
their arms OF legs
The Lourskowski woman was walking
along the Boulevard. when the mad dog
dashed at her gripping hes left arm Ia
its teeth and dragging her 10 the side
walk Before he could Ice driven of the
dog had ripped almost all the upper part
al Miss Lourskowskis clothing from hcr
body.
Dasnius around corners and across
streets. the dog was finally run To- eartn
on Duncan avenue, near the liackensack
River where Mounted Pa.rolman Kelly,
of the Vest MONTGOMERY street station
fred bullet into its brain.