Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-04-09

Perence among the grizzlies and
Pa1tners OF the Rocky Mountains,
ana Is man to whom fear of wild
beasts is unknown. He complied,
and went to the gardens.
Perched on the TOP of the embank-
ment, and watching for favorable
moment to spring, was the queen of
beasts. With both barrels of his
gun loaded with no heavier metal
than ordinary No. 6 bird-shot, Mr..
McAvoy advanced. Ten feet in the
rear of McAvoy was John Nord-
helm, the night-watchman, also with
double barreled shotgun; and ten
feet In the rear of NOrdheim was
Mr.. Haupt, armed with a revolver.
To the right of this line was Mr..
kearney, the Superintendent, also
with a double barreled gun. The
line advanced until within fifty feet
of the liOness, when she suddenly
crouehed and gave one spring, which
took her fully thirty feet down the
embankment toward Mr.. McAvov.
He was ready to fire, but the lioness
as soon as she struck the earth, SEEM
ed to rebound like an India-rubber
ball directly for Mr.. McAvoy's head.
While she was in the air, her mouth
was opened to the extreme of disten-
ton, her ears we're thrown back level
with her head, her huge paws were
spread to the utmost limit, and her
terrible claws, each like the beak of
an eagle, were curled downward rea-
dy to strike into the flesh of hervic-
tim. Mr.. MeAvoy dropped, and the
lioness went over his PROSTATE body
and struck Mr.. Nordheim, knocking
him down, and fastening her merci-
less teeth in his thigh.
In an instant Mr.. McAvoy was on
his feet, ard his trusty gun to his
shoulder. Unfortunately the pros
trate Nordheim was between him and
the ioness, and he was obliged to
ehage his position before he could
shoot without danger to Nordheim,
Stepping to the other side, he deliv-
cred one charge, which struck the IL
Oness about the middle of the back,
tearing away a portion of the back
bone, but not disabling her.
After one or two more vicious
bites, the lioness left the PROSTATE
form of Nordheim, and with a terri
bic roar,sprang upon Mr.. Haupt and
crushed him together as though he
had been paper, and it was thought
that every bone in his body was
broken. She fastened her fangs in
his thigh, and her claws in her abdo=
men, and in half second more the
unfortunate man would undoubtedly
have been disemboweled had not Nj,
McAvoy, this time with a more sure
aim, not more than four feet from
the ferociOus beast, sent a load of
biTd-shot through its heart.
The lioness fell over and died i'm
mediately. Yesterday morning the
body was brought to the city and
given in charge of taxidermist to
prepare for preservation in the rooms
of the Society of Natural History, to
which it was offered by the Direc-
tors of the Geological Society. From
the tip of the nose to the end of the
tail the carcass measured y feet. 1t
is said to have been the largest IL
oness in this section OF the country,
She was bought, together with a
lion, at sheriff's sale, and cost the
Society about $500.
Nordheim and Haupt, although
painfully wounded, are not danger
Ously so. Their wounds are entirely
in the flesh, no bones or important
blood vessels being involved.
In justice to the boy who was
leading the donkey when the attack
was made, We will state that he has
stopped running, and was yesterday
at his post of duty in the gardens.