The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-22
ON THE STAMPEDE.
Great Excitement nsar the Chicago
stock Yaris---Two Per-.
sons Killed.


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CHICAGO, June 2l.-One hundred and ten
wild Texan steers, making up a herd just re-
,eisea by Libby, Mcneil q Libby, broke
from tile driving eor4al and created the
greatest stampede and excitement known In
the stock yards region for many years, caus
ing children to shrek and women to faint,
and spreading terror and disfnay in the south
western section The cattle were driving
quietly until Halstead and Fortieth streets
were reached, when giant steer sounded the
alarm below 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 a mo-
ment the people crowding the streets seemed
dazed, hut speedily gained their senses and
added shrieks and yells to the cries and means
of the cattle. After concerted rush for two
blocks the herd broke and scattered in all di-
rections. A lot of sixty took possession of
Wentworth avenue, and cleared the street of
everything living or movable.
At this point George Sweeney, genuine
Texan cowboy, in charge Of the herd put in
an appearance mounted on a herder mustang
and armed with Winchester rifle Waiv-
ing all preliminaries, Sweeney dashed after
the Wentworth avenue section and killed
nine of the animals in rapid succession, He
followed another section down Thirtieth
street, killing fourteen, and when he reached
South Park avenue he put an end to the re-
naming three
Sweeney took another turn making a sort
Of skirnlish detour, followed by hundreds Of
men and boys armed with weapons of every
conceivable sort, ranging from Bridgeport
sandbag and billy to an old army revolver,
and the staghunt was fully and fairly in
augurated. 1t was difficult to locate the
steers, but Sweeney directed his volunteer
army to seour the side streets, and detach-
ments left with a whoop and yell The
Bridgeport citizens considered the steers their
meat and lost no time IN securing it.
Within the Twelfth street police precinct
between twenty and thirty animals were
killed At the corner of Ashland avenue and
Rehecca street a small, creaIn-eolored Texan
ran up against house and was dispatched
by five pistol-balls; at Wood and Nine
teenth streets two were killed by shot
guns and rocks; brief but bloody bat
tie occurred at Morgan and Harrison
streets, where a big steer fell and broke two
| fore legs, and was murdered by saloon
keepers ak; Blue Island avenue was terrified,
| and one steer dashed through the show-win-
dow of 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 Fourtieth street anG
| Stewart avenue was wild with excitement.
| Five maddened animals bore down on Mrs.
Mary Mufholland, of 400 Rebecca street, and
trampled her to death The body was re-
moved to the home of married daughter on
| Fourtieth street. Another dash of the steers
carried them to Maggie. Carney, aged s
years, on her way home from a Stewart ave
nue. store with pail of milk and a loaf OF
bread in her hands. The child stopped trans
fixed with terror, and the steers cruelty
trampled on her, infiicting injuries necessarily
fdsal. The little one was taken up tenderly
still grasping the milk pail, and borne to her
home on Maxwell street. One of the animals
was slain by a street-car driver, but the 9th
ers escaped p
In the vicinity of Morgan and Maxwell
streets another steer was captured and his
head beaten to Jelly with stones and clubs
At the corner of Halstead and Meaghel
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 mad
dened createre jumped into the river at thu
intersection of Fifth street, and was cap
| tured by the crew of the outward bounC
schooner Winnie Wing The boat was hur
ried up stream, and the sailors will hav,
plenty of fresh meat on their voyage.
At the corner of Blue Island and Cente
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killed by laborer with crowbar Scarcel,
had the brute fallen when a remarkable seem
ensued Twenty or thirty men am
women crowded around and be
gan to fight for the carcass.
was skinned in patches and while the bod,
was yet quivering the meat was cut off il
hunks and chunks and carried off amid tri
umphant shouts and laughter. In less thai
fifteen minutes after the crowbar struck tn
animal, nothing but the skeleton and the en-
trails remained, and an old woman returne
and secured the heart and liver. The sigh
was a little less than disgusting, and tn
semi-cannibalS were shocking in their blood
begrimed faces and clothing.
Mrs. German, of s. Brown street, narrowl
escaped terrible death One of the steers en-
tered her garden, and she started to drive
!, out, thinking it was vagrant COW. The an
NAL lowered its horns and was within six fee
of the now terrified woman when Officer L
Plant rushed up and planted bullet in tn
creatures brain. Mrs. German tainted, an
was carried into her house suffering from
; nervous shock.
Out of the 40 steers in the herd when
/. broke, 43 were killed or lost, and the remair
der secured after hunt by the stock var
men. One ingenious fellow was determined |
catch his game alive, and actually succeede
in securing steer with a rope and tying
e fast to the dock at Mason slip, in the sout
J, fork. Libby, Mcneil & Libby lose about 81 OK
r by the stampede Maggie Carney died aft
0 terrible suffering