Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1872 — The Horse Disease. [ARTICLE]

The Horse Disease.

A little over a week ago a terrible epidemic broke out among horses at Buffalo, Rochester and New York city and since that time has spread with fearful rapidity to all the cities of the East and up to this date, October 30th, as far west as Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio. So fatal and widespread is the disease that m all the places where it prevails the carrying business has been almost wholly suspended from inability to fyid well horses enough to do the work. In New York on the 28th inst. about 800 horses were reported to have died, and a number of those fell dead in the harness on street cars or drays.— Prominent physicians of the New York Board of Health say that the disease will attack men and already a few cases are reported from Brooklyn of men being attacked with the malady who have been working with diseased horses. The disease seems to attack all horses, from the hard worked dray or car horse, to the pampered horse of the /port, and the well fed work or carriage horse of the farmer, with about the same fatality. Unless something is done to abate the disease it is probable that it will spread over Indiana in the course of a week or two at farthest!