The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1883-07-06


Steers sfampo6s u Chiesge "a carss
Death 90 Dostrue<ion-
Cnlcxoo. June =.
one hundred end Ten Wild Texan Steers
making ID ! herd Just received By Libby
Mcneil 4 Libby. broke from the driving
corral early wednesday evening. and c'e-
stsd ne greatouf stampede end excItcmenf
known N TIE sfock-yards region for many
years. causing children % shrek and women
u faint, and spreading terror and dismayn
the southwestern section. Inc cattle were
driving quietly until IIalsicd end con
streets wcre reached. when giant
steer sounded The alarm, and ne
herd q once took q up. p - instant
horns went down and tails went ~. ano
with terrifying morts and bellows Ne mad
creatures broke. For moment the people
crovdng TIE streets seemed dazcd, bus
speedily gained their senses md added
shriels md yells b he cries and means q
| he cattle. After concerted rush Tor two
| blocks he herd broke and scattered y ~
1 directions. "A lot q sixty took possession
| Of Wentworth avenue, and cleared a.
street Of everything living Or movable
At this point George Sweeney, genuine
| Texan cowboy, 10 charEe d The herd, PIT y
An Appearance mountedon herder mustang
and armed with Winchester ride. Waving
III prclIminarics, Sweeney dashed after The
Wentworth avenue section and killed nlno
az The animals II rapid succession. He fol-
lowed another section down ThirtIeth street,
killing fourteen, and when he reached South
Park avenue be put an end % three more
Sweeney took another turn, making soFt
Of skinnlsh detour, followed b. hundreds
81 men and boys armed with weapons e
every conceivable sort, ranging from >
Bridgeport ssnd bag and billy 70 a. old army
revolver, and The stag-hunt was fully ena
fairly inaugurated. 4 was dincnlt g ~
cate tbe steers, but Sweeney onec1<c ~
defachmenfs left with Z whoop and yell
The Bridgeport citizens considered ne
| steers their meat, and lost no time y secur-
within ne Twelfth Street Police Precinct
between twenty and thirty animals were
. Killed. At the corner Of Ashland avenue
and Rebecca street small, crcam-coIored
Texan ran up against honse and weS dls-
patched BY i've pistol-balls; e Wood sne
Nineteenth streets two were kilIeo ~ snos-
/, | guns and rocks; brief but bloody battle
! occsrred AZ Moran and Harrison streets.
! where bic steer fell and broke his fore
lcxs. and was murdered BY saloon keeper
, AZ: 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 neIghbors helped dresl
, the carcass and carry Il AWAY.
e The neighborhood Of Fourteenth sReee
and Stewart avenue was wild with excite
mcnt. Five ma<ldened animals bore down
On Ms Mary NuIholland, Of 40 kebecc1
], body was removed to the home Of . mazrie<
!. daughter on Fourteenth street. Anothe'
! dash Of the steers carried them 70 Maggie
y Carney. AGED eight years on her way home
= from Stewart avenue store with pail o
milk and : loaf Of bread IN her hands. Tn
child stopped. transfixcd with terror, an<
h The steers cruelty trampIed on her. in1llcfin|
s injuries necessarily fatal The little o.
\ was taken up tendcrly, still pasping ~
y mIlk-pail, and borne % her home On ~
!. well street She has since died. One
y the animals was slain BY streetcax driver
y but the others escaped.
e In the vicinity Of Morgan and Maxwell
y streets another steer was captured and a
head beaten 70 Jelly with stones and clubs
N At the corner Of Halstcd and Mcoghe
u streets Sicnal-Sergeant Fox met four Of 4,
"a stays, and after : desperate fight ki!le'
"A them, escaping with nothing moro ser1ou
q than bruised hand One makdened crea'
ure jumped into the river = The intcrsectlo
Of Flftccnth street. and WAS captured ~ q
~ crew n Re outward-bound schooner VIII
ME Wing. The boat Was hurried upstream
cr and the saIlon will have plenty o. fres
"a meat On their VOYAGE. At The corner I