Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-22
TOUGH AND FEARLESS.
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Remarkable Yarns About the Wild
Hogs Of Texas.
A Drove Tackles Railroad Train and Dies
on the Track to the Last Hog
Battle Between Dtoysof
Hogs and a Tor
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periences.
"a drove Of peccariesp said the reporter,
and bis tone must have grated on the engi-
neer, for he replied, testify:
"Yes, drove of peccaries! You'll admit,
l s'pose, that there are peccaries3 Didn't
you ever hear that they ran in drovesT
"Oh, certainly said the reporter. "But
they're down in South America, Mexico, or
Central Ameriea. somewhere"
Are they? Thank you'll! said the engi-
neer. did you s.pose thought they were
roofing round in this railroad yard2 Had
you an idea that meant they we're chasing
the beechnut and the c)rn up along the
Erie liner know where 'ccaries are, and
1 think ought to. And it wal in South
America, Mexico, nor Centr4! America that
| met EN-, neither. 1t was in Texas, and,
as SAID before, I'll never forget the first
time ran into drove Of en-.
Il had gone down to take job on
Texas railroad, Ike good many Other sap.
headed railroa6crs from the North. ! didn t
know any more about Texas than-well.
than you DO, but / went down there to run
a train, and thought ! could do it. got
a passenger train, ard had fireman who
was from the North. | had got the hang Of
the road fairly, and was bling along one
dav through piece of woods when all of
sudden my fireman hollers:
"Jewhillikins! yonder's a drove Of hogs
on the track"
"SUre enough about three train lengths
ahead was big drove of the ugliest-looking
hogs ever saw. They were taking their
lime in walking across the Gack. At first
[ thought ia sock on the brakes and try TO
stop, but on second thought | made up my
mind that it would be safer TO cat through
The drove with full head on pulled her
vide open and let the whistle sing. OF
course, / though the sound O. the whistle
would scare the hogs and likely cause 'em
10 scatter and make an opening fer me
But the minnie they heard the sound they all
stopped dead, and the ones that had 60; of
of the track came crowding back to get on
again. Every hog bristled ~ and showed
fight, and when struck EN- they we're stand
ing there like a wall to re :ieye me. OF
course, the engine knocked EN- right and
left, ard cut swarth through the drove like
\ red hot iron through piece of butter
the ones that were left few tiercely at the
wheels of the cars as they passed, and were
crushed to death by the dozen. When we
=. OF through them | looked back, and there
stood the remnant Of the drove, as defiant
rs ever.
"Wen' says to my fireman, is that
rritF
"'ls it? says he. is No. I sandpaper
grit
% funny looking hogs, amt they? says l..
mo Berkshire in EN-, you bet says he.
$50 when we got to the next station says
to the agent:
al ran into drove O somebody's hogs
back yonder, and killed couple o dozen
of EN-. s'pose we'll find out whose they
are when the suit for damages comes into
the COMPANY sa I, as l pulled:out. The
agent Just laid down and howled, and |
wondered what allied him. When we got
10 the end Of the run was telling native
railrosder about the drove Of I. " hogs
and he says:
"Oh! that's nawthin'. Them's pec'ries.
LUCKY We didn't stwap yer train.
"WhyY says |.
"'Whyr SAYS he. WAL eff ye had
stawped them pee ries d bou iced inter
yer cab uuickern t'rsntu y kin kill
mouse, an thud a chawed ye up thrum yer
cow-lick down to yer last buuion. Then
thud q rounded them cars, al the fus
gsloot that opened door thul a chawed
him I'D. AFTER day or 80 the compny d
a missed the train an d sent another IN.
zine ont to look it up an when the ingiaeer
ound it an stawPed his ingin. TO hook on
it. them pee ries d bounced on his IN.
zine an chawed him up, an so it'd gone
On. an the business o the road d q suffered
According to that, says !, the Peccsry
must be pusher.
"'Got more vim in him" SAYS the native,
than any other citizen o Texas 'cept the
centipede He'll make We laugh. The
oec'ry's got mem'ry longer'n thrum h'yer
to New Orleans too an the chances is that
You'll meet them fellers sgin that ye see to
lay. Mind ye, now! Don't stawp yer in'
line.
Sure as guns when we went back next
Law, there in the very same spot was the
emuaut OF that drove Of pecaries.
"V ATTN fur us, by gravy" Eaid my fire.
man.
IS they were. Aswe tore down on EN-
he5 brsced up and met US face to face
the sprang at the wheels grabbed at the
,ide rods, and fought ever truck in the train
"a the cars passed them. A dozen or more
IF them were killed. The peccaries didn't
follow US, but when We went back on the
next trip there, at the same spot, was
posted all that was left OF the drove, evil
ieIiiv waiting to reveng e the death Of their
comranious. The drove was red iced TO
Twelve. The twelve planted the nselves
square on the track, facing US, aud never
moved sn inch as we dashed upon EN- aud
scattered EN- right aAd left along thu rails
Looking back after the train had passed
tie SPOT. we saw one solitary pe2carY letI
sIiye out OF the drove. told the native, AT
the end of the run, about the persistent
pluck Of the peccaries and abolt killing
hem all but one.
az don't s'pose we'd see him again,
ooh, he'll be thar said the native. 'le
kin bet a bucket o Ticker hel be thar!
Pee ries don't know setch thing as 5sckin
out OF a fight. He'll be thar!
And he was there. We could see him
for mile ahead of us when We vent back
The next day, standing plumb in the middle
of the track, or rather squatnng. on bis
launches waiting for us. 1t seemed pity
to run him down. He rose to his feet as We
drew near him and rushed forward to meet
us. The engine struck him and hurled him
ffty feet out into the woods. We had hn.
ished the drove.
81 found out good many things about
the peccary before left Texas. There was
a time when nothing would kill peccary
but,the poisoned arrows Of the Contra
American Indians. but that was before the
DAYS of Winchester rifles. 4 bullet from
3 Winchester is Just searching enough to
end q peccary's vitals. but the range dout
want to be TOO long. When man goes out
hunting peccaries he doesn't trip lightly
through the forest, and, stealing upon the
unscspet ting game, bring it down With his
unerring rife. No, not when he hunts pee
CARES. the did, nineteen seconds after he