FOUR PERSONS BITTEN BY MAD DOG AT SEYMOUR
FOUR PERSONS BITTEN BY MAD DOG AT SEYMOUR
Wild Canine Chases Through Crowd at Fair.
Post-Crescent August 26,1926
Micheal Trauffler, 226 N. Morrison St., and three other persons were bitten by a mad dog which ran through the streets of Seymour and the fairgrounds early Wednesday evening during the fair. Others bitten were Earl Fenn, Navarino, a child named Rose from Rose Lawn, a Treml boy of Isaar and a man named Armitage of Nichols. All of the sufferers are receiving a modification of the Pasteur treatment for the prevention of hydrophobia which is being administered by a Seymour physician. All of Seymour was distressed by the rabid animal. As the word spread, attendance at the fair rapidly declined.
The dog roamed about the fairgrounds and streets from 7 o’clock until it was shot about 9:30 in the evening. Other persons in the crowd had their clothing torn by the canine and some were thought to have received slight wounds. The dog raced through the crowd from the Standard Oil Co. station to the Fairgrounds and made a circle of the grounds returning to the station and repeating the route several times before the danger was discovered.
Motorcycle officers gave chase on their machines and when this plan failed volunteers with shotguns were placed along the walks. The chase and the armed men almost caused a riot in the crowd which did not understand what was going on. William Jansen, Seymour, shot the dog.
Although a few cases of rabies have been discovered among dogs of towns of Freedom, Osborn, and Oneida, there was not certainty that the Seymour dog was infected until a positive report was received from State Hygienic Laboratory, Madison.