Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-08
SAVED FROM AN ALLIGATOR. Thrilling Experience of Life i'm Cali
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From the Los Angels Evening Express.]
 A family named Lambert, living on Lake Charlie Apopks, or Tsala Lake, as it is called. report a very thrilling experience. The fam fly is composed of MT. and Mrs. Lambert and three children, two boys and girl baby, the boys being and 15 respectively, and the girl just able to toddle about. They moved there. some two years ago and prompted home s.ead on the south side of the lake.
 The honse is built about 200 feet from the lake and on slight elevation, the land in front sloping down gradually to the waters edge At the left, of some little distance, is an immense saw grass pond. Near this Mir. Lambert built an enclosure for his pigs, one side facing the lake, and up to month ago he had magnificent lot of pokers. One night several weeks ago he heard tremen- dous uproar in his hog pen, and hurrying out with his shotgun and lantern, he was just iu time to see one of his fine hogs disappear ing in the lake in the mouth of huge alliga- tor, while the scores of balls of fire seen gilt tering in the darkeness on the lake showed the presence of others.
 From that beginning their inroads were kept up with great regularity, and though he killed dozen or more, yet the pork was too nice for them to relinquish their feeding ground. Lately they have grown so bold as to crawl into his yard in. daytime, and the pre-
  and fowls have rendered MT. Lambert's life burden.
 A recent adventure, however, of two mem bers of his family with one of these dread- ! ful creatures has so terrified the farmer and has so alarmed his entire household that he | is seriously contemplating abandoning his place. One Saturday afternoon & short time ago Mrs. Lambert, who was in the back part of the house, was attracted by the | screams of her little girl aud frantic cries | of Mammal Mammal" Hurrying to the l front of the house, she could not at first locate the little one's whereabouts, but her | piercing screams continued, and the almost | frantic mother soon discovered the futter | of her child's dress near the lake shore, the palmetto bushes nearly hiding her from view. Snatehing up an axe from the wood pile, she flew to the water's edge, and as
 she rounded the palmetto patch a sight ! burst upon her that nearly drove her crazy. | On the edge of the bank, with it's body l half in the water, was huge alligator,
 its forepaws outstretched, raising it from the ground, while it's tail lashed the water I into foam. Just in front of it, and cling.
 ing to palmetto root with her hands for dear life, was the little girl, her dress being held in the jaws of the alligator, who was l slowly dragging the ohild. The alligator's
 dull eyes gleamed with anger, like red coals l of fire, and when Mrs. Lambert appeared
 the monster uttered 8 hoarse bellew and
 started backward, tearing loose the chiid's l slight hold.
 The latter's infantile features were drawn into an agonized appeal, and as the animal dragged her down she was too completely paralyzed with fear to even cry out. The peril of her baby banished all fear from | Mrs. Lambert, and she rushed up'and struck the saurian over the head with the axe,
 and, seizing the child with both hands,
 tried to pull her away. The sharp blade cut into the alligator's eye, and sprang at l the woman. This left the child free, and
 they both fell backward. Mrs. Lambert
 said afterward that at this moment she
 never expected to save her life As she fell the alligator swung around his tail with 8
 terrible sounding whisk, but the fortunate fall
 of the two just placed them outside it's deadly sweep.
 The alligator advanced as far as it could
 with unwieldy waddle, and Mrs. Lambert attempted to rise and escape. Her dress
 caught on a root, and before she could get up and free herself the alligator made snap
 at her and missed, catching hold of her dress
 instead. Finding that it had secured soRe-
 thing it. commenced backing toward the
 water, dragging along the prostrate woman,
 who now fully realized her peril and flled
 the air with her cries for help. She franti
 cal1y clutched at the roots as she was drag ged over them, but her dress was of stout