San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-03

witnesses or a dreanrm Tragedy. IL was
q cloudy day, with occasional snow
squalls, but no wolves came near us. At
about 2 o'clock, while my companions
were lying down, I opened slide to take
look over the highway toward Toblosky.
For four miles the highway was over a
plain, and one could see every moving OBJ
ject. Then the road was lost in a pine
forest, which stretched along for couple
of miles. had scarcely pulled back the
slide when an object came in view in the
road at the edge of the forest, and in half
a minute l had made out horses. A
sledge was coming our way, the first
which had passed since we took up our
station. We had pair Of field glasses in
the car, and 1 had no sooner adjusted the
focus than / uttered a shout which
brought my companions to their feet.
There were three horses abreast, and
they were coming at dead run, while
on both sides of the sledge l could
make out fierce wolves jumping up.
The team was a powerful one and
coming very fast, and in a minute
more l made out that the sledge was
surrounded by a great pack of wolves.
The driver was lashing the horses in a
frenzied way, while the smoke and flame
and faint reports proved that the occu-
pants of the sledge were using firearms to
defend themselves. We had two or three
minutes in which to act. Each of us had
the idea that the sledge would halt at our
car for protection, or that the people in it
would certainly leap out at that point.
We opened one of the doors, got down our
guns, and all were ready to leap out when
a dreadful sound reached our ears. 1t
was the Shrek of horse. / say shrek,
for it was nothing more nor less-a shrek
of terror and despair. The cause was
plain as we looked out. One of the horses
had fallen when the sledge was hardly
twenty rods away, and the other two had
been dragged down with him. We could
not see them, however, for the wolves.
We just caught sight of two or three
human figures in furs, heard the reports
of pistols and shouts of human voices, and
then the terrible din made by the wolves
drowned all other sounds.
We should have sprung out and gone
to the assistance of the beset travellers,
but before we could move a foot our car
was surrounded by wolves, and monster
got his head and shoulders into the door
way and hung there for few seconds
We opened the slides and looked out, but
all was over then. The carcasses of the
horses had been picked to the bone, the
harnesses eaten, and the robes from the
sledge were being torn apart as the wolves
raced around. We saw pieces of bloody
clothing scattered about, and we knew
that the travellers had met a horrible
fate. We learned afterward that there
were four men in the sledge.
The pack of wolves, which seemed to
be much larger than any which had yet
gathered, hung about until we knocked
over at least fifty Of them, and then drew
off to return at midnight. We kept our
position for nine days before the men
would come with the horses, and, al
though we preserved the scalps Of only
three wolves, we estimated the number of
killed at over 500 We intended to put
in week at another place, but with the
horses came that same government Off
cial, who gravely informed us that he
had been instructed by his superior officer
to inform us that our wolf hunt must
end. We We're rendering the highways
dangerous to travellers by attracting the
wolves New York Sun.