The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1875-03-04
WAR AMONG BEASTS.

EVANSVILLE, Wis, Feb. Of. novel
battle occurred last night at a menagerie
now exhibiting here. About II o'clock
the zebu, or sacred OK, got loose, and
ran out of his stall, and when near the
cage which holds the tiger the latter
sprang for the zebu, clinching his claws
into his nose, and fastening his teeth in
his neck near the horns. The grip was
one OF tremendous power. This threw
the zebu into intense rage, and he start
ed across the room, taking the tiger
with him. and pulling the strong iron
bars apart which imprisoned the tiger.
Then a scene followed which totally
battles description. The man who at
tended as night-watch in the room be-
came terrified, and climbed a post to
the ceiling to protect his life. The tu-
multi brought downstairs Richard
Brooks and Samuel D1ckey, who were
sleeping in the room above. With a
courage and seIf-possession rarely if
ever witnessed, they set to work
TO CAPTURE THE TIGER.
In this they ran nineteen chances out of
twenty Of losing their lives. By this
time the tiger and the Infatuated zebu
were in the heat of desperate battle,
the former holding his powerful grasp
on the latter, and bespattering the walls
and door, against which they were
fighting, with blood. The conflict en-
ragged the mammoth lion and elephant
which sent up laundering roar. Then
followed the maddened silver lion and
the laughing hyena with their terrific
and hideous screaming, which made the
scene too demonlike to be described.
It was perfect bedlam, Acknowledging
and terrifying. Brooks and Dickey,
feeling the Importance of quench1ng the
fury of the animals as soon as possible.
MADE A LEAP FOR THE TIGER.
Throwing themselves seemingly in the
grasp of that enraged animal, they
caught HIM by the neck, and attempted
to strangle him, to relieve his grasp on
the zebu. They succeeded in taking
him off, but by his tremendous power,
made more desperate by his rage and
the taste of blood, he wrenohed himself
from their heroic grasp and plunged on
the zebu the second time. A rope was
then procured, and moose made, and
in an instant it was brought tightly
around the tigers neck, when he was
brought to the ground and placed in his
cage.
In the affair Mr. Brooks received
wounds which will confne him to his
bed for several weeks, His left arm
was badly cut, and his left thigh bears
a wound nearly an inch deep and three
and-a-half inches long. He also re-
ceived several other wounds, but of a
light character. Mr.. Dickey, also, had
one of his hands badly wounded. Had
not the tiger been captured Id season
there is no telling what would have fol-
lowed.
THE LION GALE NEAR BREAKING OUT
Of his cage, twisting the stout iron bars
as if they were but wire. The silver
lion and the hyena made desperate at
tempts to free themselves, anxious to
join in the struggle for blood.
The bravery of Brooks and Dickey is
worthy of all praise. 10 avoid gen
eral slaughter of the animals, they
risked their own lives, exercising I'M
paralleled courage and cool augment.
1t was probably twenty minutes from
the time the tiger made its attack on the
zebu before he was captured and re-
turned to the cage. The zebu came out
of the fight badly wounded in the head,
but the injuries will not prove fatal.
day the blood of the men and ami
mails is spread over the walls and the
cages, which gives one some idea of the
extent of the conflict.