Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-09-27
THE MAN.EATER,S JAWS.
Six Villages i'm India Devastated by
Tigers in broad Day.

From the London Times
MI tt. u. Turner. acting agent to the gov
ernor OF Fiza-apatam, writes to the chief sec
retary TO the Madras government from LOthu-
gedda. on the Sd of June, 1884. as follows: Il
nave the honor to report that the neighborhood
OF this village, together with the adjoining vii
lagos belonging to Gangaraz Madgole, are in
tested with man-eating tigers to such an extent
as 10 render some special measures being taken
LOT their destruction matter of urgent i'm
rortance. During the last four months upwards
OF forty people have been killed in the vicinity
OF the police stations of Paderu Nandapoor
fa'ia"a ana Sulankota In the neighhOrhoOd
where am now cncamped which is within the
circle OF the LamSinghi police station. upwards
OF thirty-fiye people have been killed in the last
twelve months and in both places there is a
weekly recurrence of deaths from the same
cause The panic that exists here is terrible.
People Will sot 20 ont of their houses after
dark They are obliged to gather in large par
Ties 10 30 TO market; villages are deserted: Gull
tivation is pursued under the greatest difficulty
aud IN constant trepidation. This morning
was shown deserted village abandoned on ac-
count of the tiger terror
'kecentlv man aud his wife were p,OuCfine
a Hello near this abandoned village. when
tiger attacked the man in the middle of the
day. He hit him with a hill-hook and the tiger
t9rhed on the woman and carried her oil before
MS eyes ON the same road | was shown two
spots Where the t. -,eT carried off two men in
one day. Yesterday was shown a place where
Il tl@tf sprGnG upon a constable. knocked him
down, ana naued him so severely that he died
the next day. This constable was one of
guard who were escOrting about one hundred
people nome from market. Three DAYS ago a
Vt2%e munst came to seq me. with the story
that a ti"cr got into his ward, in the middle of
village. and seed his wife, and. although he
peat IL oG. the poor woman died the next day.
II think it likely that this Unprecedented
human slaughter may arise from an unusual
deaFth ot firearms in the country. 1t is clear
To III" that if something is not done to stop these
raEa9eS the country side will be gradually de-
populated | should say that at least six vii
ia-ea have been abandoned quite recently from
thlS cause, and this means that lands have fallen
out OF CULTIVATION that the people try to live on
iunGle produce. and. failing that 90 off to the
piainS as iahOrers. 1t is not only the absolute
danger to life that have to think about, but
hkeWiSe this disastrous stopping of all agrcul-
tural operations. 1t is horrible to contemplate
the feelings OF pOer lahorcr going out Tor his
O. 5 work TO a field Il few hundred Yards from
HIS house. with the knowledge about him that
there Is an even chance of his being carried
away from the SIDE of his plough or that his
VII" iHay be sliced when She IS bringing lin his
midday meal. Yet this is, and must De- the at
titudc OF mind of every man in this country
Who pursues the usually peaceful avocaton of
the husDaudmau."