Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1883-06-29
uiID CATTLE ON THE RAMPAGE.
Herd ~ One Hundred and Ton rexas
Steers stampede "a Chicago aud Cause
Death aud Destruction.

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Steers stampede "a Chicago aud caus
Death aud Destruction.
CHICAGO, June "a.
One hundred and ten wild Texan steer
making up herd just received BY Libby
Mcneil a Libby broke ium the drlyin
corral early "Wednesday evening, and cfe
ated the greatest stampede and excllemcn
known IN the sloek-yards region for man
years, causing children to shrek AMI wome
10 faint, and spreading terror and dlsmay Il
the southwestern section, The cattle Wen
driving quietly until llalslol and i0tl
streets were reached, when CLAN
steer sounded the alarm, and th
herd al once took Il up In an lnsian
horns went down and tails went up, an'
with terrifying molls aud bellows the ma'
creatures broke for moment the peoplI
crowdlng the streets seemed daxod, hu
speedily gained thclr senses and addc,
shriel,s and yells to the cries and moans o
the cattle After a concerted rush for iw'
blocks The herd broke and scattered In al
directions. A lot OF sixty toos IossessIoT
OF Wentworth avenue, and cleared the
street Of everything living OF moyeable
AT this point George Sweeney, a genuine
Texan cowboy In charge OF the herd, put In
nm appearance mountedon henler mustang
and armed with Wlnehesterrlile. Waving
all prellmlnafles, Sweeney dashed after the
Wentworth avenue section and Killed nine
Of the animals IN rapid succession. lie fol-
lowed another section down Thrtleth gtreet,
killing fourteen, and when he reached South
Park avenue he put an end to three mon.
Sweeney took another turn, making a sort
OF sklmlsh detour, followed by hundreds
OF men and boys armed with weapons OF
every conceivable sort, ranging from a
Bridgeport sand bag and billy to an old army
revolver, and the slag-hmt WAS fully aud
fairly inaugumted. II was difficult to 10.
cate the stecTs, but Sweeney directed his
volunteer army 10 scour the side streets, and
detachments left with a whoop and yell.
The Bridgeport citizens considered the
steers their meat, and lost no time In secur'
Ing II.
Within the Twelfth Street Police Precinct
between twenty and thirty animals were
killed. At the corner Of Ashland avenue
and Rebecca street small, cream-colored
Texan ran up against house and was dis
patched by five pistol-balls; at Wood and
Nineteenth st9ets two were killed by shot
pns aud rocks; brief but bloody battle
oeSsned at Morgan and Harrison streets,
where a big steer fell and broke his fore
legs, and was murdered by a saloon keepers
AK; Blue Island avenue was terrified, and
one steer dashed through the show window
OF small dry-goods store, causing general
havoc. The proprietor got even by killing
the steer, and the nelghbors helped dresr
the carcass and carry II away.
The nelghborhood of Fourteenth street
and Stewart avenue was wild with excite
ment Five maddencd animals bore down
on Mrs. Mary Mulholland of 420 Rebecca
street, and tlampled her to DEATH Tho
body was removed 10 the home OF q married
daughter on Fourteenth street. Another
dash of the steers carried them 10 Maggia
Carney, aged eight years, on her way homo
from a Stewart avenue store with pail OF
milk and loaf OF bread In her hands. The
'hild stopped, transiixed with terror, and
ihe steers cruelty trampled on her, inhcting
injuries necessarily fatal. The little ono
was iaken up tenderly, still gTasping the
nilk-pail, and borne to her home on Max
well street. She has since died One OF
he animals was slain. by a street-car driver
but the Others escaped.
In the vicinity Of Morgan and Maxwell
streets another steer was captured and his
read beaten to jelly with stones and clubs.
At the corner of Iialsted and MeaghcI
treets Signal-Sergeant Fox met four Of the
tags, and after desperate fight killed
hem, escaping with nothing more serious
han bruised hand. One maddencd Great
ire jumped into the river at the intersection
# Fifteenth street, and was captured by the
rev Of the outward-b bound schooner Win.
lie Wing. The boat was hurried upstream
nd the sailors will have plenty of fresh
neat on their voyage. At the corner OF
Blue Island ard Center avenues steer
aborer with a erowbar Scarcely |
ad the brute fallen when a remarkable
Gene ensued. Twenty or thirty men sad |
iomen crowded around and began 10 fight |
Or the carcass 1t was skinned In patches,
nd while the body was yet quiyering the |
ieat was cut OF in hunks and chunks and
auled off amid triumphant shouts and |
lughter In less than fifteen minutes after
le crowbar struck the ANIMAL nothing but /
he skeleton and the entrals remained, and
Il old woman returned and secured the
cart and liver The sight was little less
ran disgusting, and the semi-cannibals were
lockng in their blO0d-tegrimed faces and
othing
Mrs. German, of IS Brown street, mar
)wly escaped terrible death. One Of the
GERS entered her garden, and she started
} drive It out, thinking it was yagran,
wv. The animal lowered its horns and
as within six feet of the now terrified
oman when Officer La Plant rushed up
nd planted bullet in the creatures brain.
rs. German tainted, and was carried
TO her house suffering from a nervous
lock.
OF the one hundred and ten steers in Tire
'rd when 1t broke, forty-three were killed
lost, and the remainder secured after a
ght Of hunting by the stock-yard men,
ne ingenious fellow was determined to
tch his game alive, aud actually succeeded
securing a steer with rope and tying il
ST to the dock at Mason slip, in the south
rk. Libby, Mcneil q Libby lose about
10 thousand dollars by the stampede.