The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-09-08
A TERRIBLE TIGER STORY.

MT. Cuthbert Fraser, says the Dec can Times, had a most miraculous es- cape from 8 tiger the other day at Amraoti, and it gives the following account of it:
 "The hero of this adventure is a district superintendent of police in Berar. To quote the graphic account of 8 correspondent, the escape was about as narrow as man ever had. MT. Fraser was told by his orderly that a wounded tiger was lying dead with his head on the root of tree. The orderly having called him up, he went to the spot. MT. Fraser then sent the orderly and another man with his sec- ond gun back and knelt down to look. Just then the tiger roared and came at him from about eighteen feet off; he waited till the tiger was within five feet of him and fired. AS the tiger did not drop, he fired his second shot hurriedly. The first shot had hit ex- actly in the center of the face, but just an inch too low. It knocked the tigers right eye out, and smashed all the teeth ot that side of the jaw. The second shot struck the tiger in the chest, but too low. What happened then MT. Fraser does not exactly know, but he next found himself lying in front of the tiger, one claw of the beasts right foot being hooked into his left leg, in this way trying to draw Mir. Fraser towards him the other paw was on his right leg. MT. Fraser's chin and coat were covered with foam from the beasts mouth. He tried hard to draw himself out of the tigers clutches. Fortunately, the beast was not able to see him, as Mir. Fraser was little to one side of the animals blind side, and the tigers head was up. Suddenly, seeing Mir. Fraser's orderly bolting, he jumped up and went for the man, and catching him killed him on the spot.
 "Mr. Fraser had lost his hat, rifle, and all his cartridges, which had tum- bled out of his pocket. He jumped up, however, and ran to the man who had his second gun, and to do SO he had to go within eight paces of the spot where the tiger was crouching over his orderly. He heard, in fact, the crunching of the mans bones, and saw the tiger biting the back of the head. He now took the gun from his man. The latter said he had fired both bar rels into the tiger-one when he was crouching over MT. Fraser, and the other when he was over the prostrate body of the orderly. The man had fired we'll and true, but just too far back in his anxiety not to hit the men he would save instead of the tiger. When afterwards asked if he was not afraid to hit the 'sahib,' T was very much afraid, indeed,' he replied, Out d1 mazbut karke lagaya nerved myself for the occasion.' "A good man and true,' high officer writes,.'who, after firing never moved an inch till MT. Fraser came to him, although close to the tiger all the while. He is one of the Gawilghur Rajputs-a brave race, Ranjit Singh, good name.' The man said he had no more cartridges left, and so they both got little fur ther from the tiger, as the orderly was evidently done for. Afterwards they found one more cartridge for the gun, and tried to recover the body. but it was nc use. The tiger was ly- ing close, most of the buffaloes had bolted, and the Kurkoos would not help. MT. Fraser then sent six miles off for an elephant. But the animal did not arrive till dark, SO Mir. Fraser went home in great grief about the poor orderly and at having to leave the body. His own wound was bleed. ing a great deal, it being 8 deep claw gash. Next day they got the body and the tiger dead lying close to each other. Perhaps no narrower escape than MT. Fraser's has ever been heard of. To the excellent shot which knocked the beasts eye out he un- doubtedly owes lis life. He says that he felt that he had the tiger dead when he fired, but the express bullet unfor- tunately broke up. Probably, he thinks, 12-bore would have reached the brain. His many friends will be glad to hear that MT. Fraser is now doing well, the wound being nearly healed up.