11.   Knowles blamed rotting animal carcasses in a canal near the water plant for the contamination.

12.   Residents walked nonchalantly Monday past the rotting carcass of a horse buried chest deep in mud, its head arching toward the sky.

13.   Rotting animal carcasses lay scattered throughout the village.

14.   The stench of rotting carcasses assailed their noses.

15.   The threat of disease from rotting carcasses led state officials to send portable incinerators into counties with the most extensive livestock deaths.

16.   They smelled the rotting carcasses of their cows and horses strewn across fields.