San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-07-05
STEERS on A STAMPEDE.
,..,h and Destruction In the Streets Of Chicago
Caused bya Herd Of Texas Cattle.
Chicago Press, June 81.

One hundred ana ten Wild Texan
streers, making up herd just received
nv Libby, Mcneil & Libby, broke
from the driving corral early Wed.
nesday evening, and created the
greatest stampede and excitement
Known in the stock-yard region for
many years, causing children to shrek
and women to faint, and spreading
terror and dismay in the southwestern
sestion. The cattle were driving
ouietly until Halsted and 10th streets
we're 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 a moment
The people crowding the streets seemed
dazed, but speedily gained their SEN
SEES 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 direc-
lions. A lot of sixty took possession
of Wentworth avenue, and cleared the
street of everything living or movea-
BILE.
At this point George Sweeney,
genuine Texan cowboy, in charge of
the herd, but in an appearance mount
ed on a herder mustang and armed
with Winchester rifle, Waving all
preliminaries, Sweeney dashed after
the Wentworth avenue section and
killed nine of the animals in rapid
succession. He followed another sec
ton 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 a Bridgeport sand
bag and billy to an old army revolver,
and the stag-hunt was fully and fairly
inaugurated. 1t was difficult to locate
the steers, but Sweeney directed his
volunteerarmy to 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 securing it.
Within the Twelfth Street Police
Precinct between twenty and thirty
animals were killed. At the cornor
of Ashland avenue and Rebecca street
asmall, cream -colored Texan ran up
against house and was dispatched
by five pistol balls. At Wood and
Nineteenth streets two were killed by
shot-guns and rocks; a brief but
bloody battle occurred at Morgan and
Harrison streets, where big steer
fell and broke his fore-legs, and was
murdered by a saloon-keeper's ak;
Blue Island avenue was terrified, and
one steer dashed through the show
window of a small d1y-goods store,
causing general havoc. The proprie-
tor got even by killing the steer, and
the neighbors helped dress the carcass
and carried it away.
The neighborhood of Fourteenth
street and Stewart avenue was wild
with excitement. Five maddened
animals bore down on Mary Mulhol-
land, of 400 Rebecca street, and tram
pied her to death. The body was re.
moved to the home of a married
daughter on Fourteenth street.
Another dash of the steers carried
them to Maggie Carney, aged eight
years, on her way home from Stew
art 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, inficting injuries necessarily
fatal. The little one was taken up
still grasping the milk-pail,
and borne to her home on Maxwell
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 Max.
well streets another steer was captured
and his head beaten to jelly with
stones and clubs. At the corner OF
HalSted and Meagher streets Signal
Sergeant Fox met four of the stays,
and after adesperate fight killed them,
escaping with nothing more serous
than a bruised hand. One maddened
Creature jumped into the river at the
intersection of Fifteenth street, and
was captured by the crew of the out
ard-bound schooner Winnie Wing:
The boat was hurried upstream, and