Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-06
RhInoOerOs 1n the Mississippi River.

RhInooerOs IN the NIIssIssippI River.
On the 10th ultimo collision occurred
between the steamer Key City and Luzerne,
on the Mississippi. in the vicinity of La
Crosse. The Luzerno had on board the
circus-trained animals, &c, belonging to
Dan Rice. The cage containing the train
ed rhinoceros, weighing over four thousand
pounds, was knocked into the river. The
door of the cage was open, and the animal
fastened with II chain and ring in his nose
Some of the men in the employ of MIR.
Rice watched u day or two, in hopes the
monster would make his appearance but,
supposing him to be drowned, they left
Subsequently be was discovered frOlickiug
in the Mississippi, but sank on being APP
nroached. At the last accounts he hsd
taken to a slough, and the La Crosse Dem
ocrdt of the 9th ultimo thus records one
of his land pranks.
Sunday afternoon Chas. Wrightson, T.
w. Brown, and Robert Egglesou, while
roasting corn on the bank of slough, five
miles below here, were half scared to death
by hearing heavy tramp, and in q few
moments the rhinoceroS, as he appeared
here on the occasion of his first visit in
July last, minus the blanket and the chain
in his nose, rushed upon them with a ter
rible below, Catching Eggleson on his
snout. and throwing him, as he says, at
least fifty feet over and back of him,
breaking an arm and two ribs in the fall
The monster plunged into the river, and
the other two persons, badly scared but
not hurt procured Il buggy took the seat
out, filled the box with grass and blank
ct, and brought Eggleson to his home in
this city, where he is now under the care
of DR.. Cameron. The ribs were evidently
broken by the snout of the animal, as the
flesh was badly torn"
The slough in which the animal had
established himself is about five miles be-
low La Crosse, and is very deep, with mud
dy bottom. The Democrat says.
Though it is just such Il place as he
was captured from in the East, there is no
telling now long he may remain quiet,
without taking a notion to prOwl around
the country in search Of better fare. This
forenoon several of our sPortsmen went
down to the spot to make arrangements for
his capture, when successful they can start
show OF their own. He was seized this
forenoon swimming in the waters of the
slough, but sank after sporting, if we may
so call it, "a few moments with back and
nose above water. About hundred per-
sons have gone down there to help in his
capture"
An exchange adds the following:
The monster has made several excur-
sious into the adjacent country since, and
has so terrified the inhabitants that serious
notions are entertained of bringing down
n piece of riticd cannon, or what would be
better stlll guubOat, with which for ever
to stop the roamings of this Bchemoth OF
the Antcdeluvian age. Dan Rice objects to
this mode of procedure, and has sent an
agent to the ground, who offers 1000 to
any one who will capture the brute alive.
On Friday last, Mcssrs. Munger and
| WrightsOn, who were 50 badly scared by
the monster last week, assisted by several
sportsmen from La Crosse, fixed n platform
in the branches of the trees under which
the animal passes coming in and out of the
water, from which they suspended ropes,
so that when it came out to feed, they could
get slipping moose over its head. Three
large ropes were attached to the limbs of
the trees, and five men were stationed on
the platform to manage them. After wait
ing three hours, the monster waddied out
OF the slough, snutfed the air shook the
water from his eyes, and with heavy
| tread clambered up the bank toward the
cornfeld. As he passed under where the
men were stationed, they succeeded in get
ting one of the nooses over his head, but
could not tighten it till the rope was
around his body. When with sudden
cry of SURPRISE followed by sort of bel
low, he wheeled and made for the water.
The single rope was useless as ii broke the
large limb of the tree to which it was at
tached, causing the men to come tumbllng
to the ground while the monster rushed
for the water, with sixty odd feet of inch
rope fast to his body, and has not since
been heard of.