The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-12
A Texas Steer at Large in New York
City.

A few minutes before ten O'Clock
Yesterday afternoon large black Tex
an steer that had escaped from its
quarters at some point on the East
River came galloping through East
Thirty-second Street, evidently much
frightened by the usual surroundings
and by the hallooing of crowd Of
street gamins who followed it. When
he reached Third Avenue the animal
halted moment and then started down
the avenue at a lively gait. A few men
attempted, principally by shouts and
waving of hands and hats, to turn the
frightened animal from the avenue into
one of the side streets, but these efforts
were of no use, and the authors, in two
instances at least, had narrow escapes
from being tossed or gored by the ami
NAL. Women and children who were
in the streets rushed excitedly into the
nearest stores, and woman in one of
the upward bound Third Avenue cars
tainted as the enraged steer passed by
the car. Several women tainted after
reaching places of safety, and the great
est excitement prevailed, for the ave-
nue. was thronged with both people and
teams, and drivers had hard work to
control their horses. The animal ran
down as far as Twenty-fo Street,
where Officer Stewart, of the anth
Precinct, managed to head I
turn him up the avenue
officer could not use his rev
ever. as the street was
thronged and the steer wo
main still long enough to ms I'd "
self target. Turning up afee
the beast ran up to Twenty-ni sif. o.
where it was brought to bs pE>
GERS Finnelly and Quigleg Ie
Twentieth Precinct, in fronto meat
market. Ropes were extended from
the building to the pillars OF the eleva-
ted railroad. and an officer who had
secured place on a wooden awning
over the sidewalk opened the battle
against the steer by firing the contents
of his revolver at him. Other officers
and citizens also opened fire on the ami
NAL. For five minutes the firing was
kept up, and the steer hung in his po-
sition on the sidewalk, leaving for The
street but once, and then finding in his
way an obstruction in the shape of
street car. In trying to go round the
car the animal fell. Philip A. Roth, of
No. IS Lewis street, was one of the
crowd that surged forward in hopes of
seeing an officer fire the fatal shot into
the animals carcass. The steer sudden
ly rose and at once charged on the
crowd, one of the horns catching in
Roth's clothing and lifting him from his
feet. Failing to toss Roth, the animal
started again for the sidewalk. carrying
the man on his horns, and finally get
ting rid of him by throwing him vio-
lently under wagon, where he lay as
one dead. The steer then took up his
old position on the sidewalk and firing
at him was renewed, blood flowing
freely from twenty bullet wounds as the
frenzied animal jumped about trying to
dodge the shower of missiles. Finally,
John f. Corr, of No. 345 West Twenty.
third street, came out of the crowd and
managed to lodge seven bullets in the
animal. None of these proved fatal.
Another revolver was handed him, but
it could not be exploded, and Just as
the steer made rush for him fortu-
nate shot by one in the crowd struck
and broke one of the steers legs and
brought it to the ground. In an instant
Corr was at its side, and, before the an
imal could regain its feet, had with his
jackknife, cut its throat and so relieved
the bullet-riddled animal of it's suffer-
ings and the crowd of its unusual and
exciting entertainment. When it was
certain that life was extinct, Roth, who
was bleeding copiously from several Sc
we're scalp wounds, was pulled out from
under the cart and taken to Belleville
Hospital, where his wounds were
dressed, and his friends were allowed to
remove him to his home.-N. Y. Times.