The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-06-28
A STAMPEDE OF TEXAS STEERS.
Herd of One Hundred and Ten Texas
Steers Stampede in Chicago and Gauss
Death and Destruction.


Herd of One Hundred and Ten Texas
Steers Stampede in Chicago and Gauss
Death and Destruction.
CHICAGO. June 21-
One hundred and ten wild Texan steers,
making up herd just received by Libby,
Mcneil & Libby, broke from the driving
corral early Wednesday evening, and Gre
ated the greatest stampede and excitement
known in the stoclk-yards region for many
years, causing children to shrek and women
to faint, and spreading terror and dismay in
the southwestern section. The cattle were
driving quietly until Halsted and 4Oth
streets were reached, when a giant
steer sounded the alarm, and the
herd at once took it up. In an instant
horns went down and tails went up, and
with terrifying snorts and bellows the mad
creatures broke. For moment the people
crowding the streets seemed dazed, but
speedily gained their senses and added
shrieks and yells to the cries and moans OF
the cattle After a concerted rush for two
blocks the herd broke and scattered in all
directions A lot of sixty took possession
of Wentworth avenue, and cleared tho
street of everything living or movable.
Al lillS pOiilb ONUi ~ D0NNnDgf ~ bhAANlitAo
Texan cowboy, i'm charge of the herd, put in
an appearance mounted on a herder mustang
and armed with q Winchester rifle. Waving
all preliminaries, Sweeney dashed after the
Wentworth avenue section and killed nine
of the animals in rapid succession. He fol-
lowed another section down Thirtieth street,
killing fourteen, and when he reached South
Park avenue he put an end to three more.
Sweeney took another turn, making a sort
of skirmish detour, followed by hundreds
of men and boys armed with weapons Of
every conceivable sort, ranging from
Bridgeport sand bag and billy TO an old army
revolver, and the stag-hunt was fully and
fairly inaugurated 1t was difficult 10 lO-
cate the steers, but Sweeney directed his
volunteer army to scour the side streets, and
detachments left with whOop and yell.
The Bridgeport citizens considered the
steers their meat, and lost no time in secur-
ing it.
Within the Twelfth Street Police Precinct
between twenty and thirty animals were
killed. At the corner Of Ashland avenue
and Rebecca street small, cream-colOTed
Texan ran up against house and was dls-
! patched by five pistol-balls; at Wood and
/ Nineteenth streets two were killed by shot
guns and rocks; brief but bloody battle
occurred at Morgan and Harrison streets,
! where big steer fell and broke his fore
! legs, and was murdered by salOon-keepers
/ ak; Blue Island avenue was terrified, and
| one steer dashed through the show-wlndow
| of a small dry goods store, causing general
havoc. The proprietor got even by killing
! the steer, and the neighbOrs helped dress
the carcass and carry it away.
The neighborhood of Fourteenth street
and Stewart avenue was wild with excite
ment. Five maddened animals bore down
on Mrs. Mary NIulhOlland, of 420 Rebecca
] street, and trampled her to death. The
body was removed to the home Of a married
daughter on Fourteenth street. Another
| dash of the steers carried them to Maggie
! Carney aged eight years, OH her way home
| from a Stewart avenue store with a pail of
! milk and loaf of bread in her hands. The
| child stopped, transfXed with terror, and
the steers cruelty trampled on her, inhicting
injuries necessarily fatal. The little ono
| was taken up tenderly, still gTasping the
] milk-pail, and borne to her home OFT Max
| well street. She has since died. One Of
! the animals was slain by street-car driver,
| but the others escaped.
In the vicinity of Morgan and Maxwell
streets another steer was captured and his
| head beaten to Jelly wiRl stones and clubs.
| At the corner Of Halsted and Meagher
streets Signal-Sergeant Fox met four Of the
stays, and after a desperate fight killed
! them, escaping with nothing more serious
than bruised hand One maddeued Great
uIE jumper illlO AilC IiNEE db Ail6 hbcISttAABl
/ of Fifteenth street, and was captured by the
crew of the outward-bOund schooner Win
/ ME Wing. The boat was hurried upstream,
and the sailors will have plenty Of fresh
meat on their voyage. At the corner Of
Blue Island and Center avenues q steer
weighing 200 pounds was killed by
\ labOTer with a crOWbar Scarcely
had the brute fallen when a remarkable
scene ensued. Twenty or thirty men and
/ women crowded around and began TO fight
for the carcass. II was skinned in patches,
| and while the body was yet quivering the
/ meat was cut off in hunks and chunks aud
/ carried off amid. triumphant shouts and
/ laughter y In less than fifteen minutes after
/ the crowbar struck the animal, nothing but
! the skeleton and the entrails remained, and
an old woman returned and secured the
/ heart and liver. The sight was little less
| than disgusting, and the semi-cannibals were
shocking in their bloOd-begrimed faces and
clothing.
Mrs. German, Of SO Brown street, mar
rowly escaped a terrible death. One Of The
steers entered her garden. and she started
to drive it out, thinking it was a vagrant
COW. The animal lowered its horns sEd
was within six feet Of the now terrified
woman when Officer La Plant rushed up
and planted bullet in the creatures brain.
| Mrs. German tainted, and was carried
into her house suffering from a nervous
/ shock.
OF the one hundred and ten steers in the
herd when it broke, forty-three we're killed
or lost, and the remainder secured after
night of hunting by the stOckyard men.
One ingenious fellow was determined TO
catch his game alive, aud actually succeeded
| in securing a steer with rope and tying IL
fast to the dock at Mason slip, in the south
fork. Libby, Mcneil q Libby lose about
one thousand dollars by the stampede.
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