The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-29
WILD BREAK OF STEERS.
Terrible Stampede ut the Chicago
Stock Yards.
Death and Destruction Caused by q
Herd of Texas Cattle.
From the Chicago Daily News.l

One hundred and ten wild Texan steers
making up herd just received by Libby,
Mcneil 4 Libby, broke from the driving cor
raj, early on the evening Of the 10th, and
created the greatest stampede and excite
ment known in the Stock Yards regon 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 Fortieth streets were reached, when q
giant bull sounded the alarm below, and
the herd at once took 1t 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
on the streets seemed dazed, but speedily
gained their senses and added shrieks
and wells to the cries and means OF the cattle.
After q concerted rush for two blocks the
herd broke and scattered in all directions
A lot of sixty took possession OF Wentworth
avenue and cleared the street or everything
living or movable
At this point George Sweeney, q genuine
Texan cowboy, in charge or the herd, put in
an appearance mounted on aherder 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 10th street,
killing fourteen, and when he reached South
Park avenue he put All end to the remaining
three.
Sweeney took another turn. making sort
of a skirmish detour followed by hundreds
of men and boys armed with weapons OF ev-
cry conceivable sort ranging from Bridge
port sandbag and billy to an old army re-
voiyer and the stag hunt was fully and fair
ly inaugurated IL was difhcult TO locate
tn e steers but Sweeney directed his volun-
teer army to scour the side streets, and de-
tachmcnts left with whoop and ayell The
Bridgeport citizens considered the steers
their meat and lo st time in securing It.
Within the Twelfth street police precinct
between twenty and thirty animals were
killed At the corner Of Ashland avenue
and Rebecca street, a small, cream colored
Texan ran up against house and was dis
patched by five pistol-balls; at Wood and
Nineteenth streets two were killed by shot
guns and rocks; a brief hut bloody battle
occurred at Morgan and Harrison streets,
where big steer fell and broke two fore
legs, and was murdered by asaloon-keeper's
ak; Blue Island avenue was terrified and
and one steer dashed through the show
window 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 MIS- MARY Ol ~ ItcDcCC6
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 s ears on her way home from
Stewart avenue store with pail of milk
and loaf of bread in her hands The child
stopped, transfixed with terror, and the
steers cruelty trampled on her. infiicting
fatal injuries. The little one was taken up
tenderly, still grasping the milk-pail, and
borne to her home on Maxwell street, where
she died shortly afterward One of the ami
mails was slain by street-car driver, but
the others escaped
In the vicinity of Morgan and Maxwell
streets another steet was captured and his
head beaten to q Jelly with stones and clubs
AT the corner of Halsted and Meager streets
Signal Sergeant Fox met four of the stays,
and, after desperate fight, killed them, es-
Gaping with nothing more serious than q
bruised hand. One maddened creature
jumped into the river at the intersection 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 a
by a laborer 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. 1t was skinned in patches,
and while the body was Yet quivering the
meat was cut off in hunks and chunks and
carried off amid triumphant shouts and
laughter In less than fifteen minutes after
the crowbar struck the animal, nothing but
the skeleton and entrails remained, and an
old woman returned and secured the heart
and liver The sight was little less than dis
gushing, and the semi -cannibals were shock
ing in their blood begrimmed faces and
clothing.
Mrs German of SO Brown street, narrowly
escaped a terrible death. One of the steers
entered her garden and she started to drive
ii out thinking it was vagrlnt cow. The
animal lowered its horns and was within six
feet of the terrified woman when Officer La
Plant rushed up and planted bullet in the
creatures brain Mrs. German tainted and
was carried into her honse suffering from a
nervous shock.
OF the 10 steers in the herd when it
broke. forty three were killed or lost and
the remainder secured after night of hunt
ing by the stock yard men One ingenious
fellow was determined to catch his game
alive, and actually succeeded in securing a
steer with a rope and tying it fast to the
dock at Mason slip, in the south fork. Lib
by, Mcneil & Libby lose about 81 COO by the
stampede
Personal AND OTHERWISE.