Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-14
CHASING A MAD BULL
A Lively Scene in the Streets
 of New York.
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
The Animal Shot Full of Lead by Polioe-
 men and Oi1ig.ns.

Mad Chase Through Fifth Avenue and f Other Thoroughfares-Peopl Brighten ed as They Left Church-Womcn Faint
 inE-The Bull Finally Killed. After For ty-four Shots Had Been Fired at Him. NEW YORK, Oct. 14-There was l nearly as much shooting and excite
 ment yesterday in the vicinity of Hud-
 son street and Eighth avenue, as there
 was In that spot during the famous Orange riot of 1871. The shooting was
 not this time by the military, but by the police, and the ub crt of the bullets was not mob. but Texas stuer.
 The animal was one Of two that escaped from drove which were being ] received at Stern Brothers slaughter house in West 10th street. torty-tive shots were fired at it by the police and dozens more by outsiders, before it bit the dust. Two of the shots wounded spectator in the hand and thigh. About twenty persons were knocked down by the bull during it's rushes into the crowd.
 The steer travelled il long way from
 the eslaughter-house bef.re it brought up
 in the locality named. 1t went down
 Huh avenue to 3sth street and through
 S9th street to Broadway, striking terror
 to the hearts of the residents of that
 tenement house district, and causing
 men, women and children to fec in all
 directions. Tho animal then started
 down Broadway, and the panic was con-
 t1nued among the. strollers of that
 thoroughfare down to 3lst street. It
 seemed to be peaceable beast. it's
 out of the way of the crowd of excited
 citizens and policemen which was fol-
 lowing and hooting at 1t. Al 31st
 street policeman headed 1t off and it
 ran into Fifth avenue. A man stand
 ing in the door of Fifth avenue man. sion fired the first shot at the steer,
 and missed. The animal kept on down to Madison Square,
 terrorizing the fashionable promenaders and causing drivers of carriages to hurry their vehicles out of range. The avenue was invaded by bowling mob, and the guests of the various hotels tlled the windows, gazing with surprise at the spectacle. The steer dashed through the Madison square park, nurses, children and other loungers in the park escaping from its path as best they could. At Broadway and Twenty third street man who tried to stop the animal by spreading an umbrella in front of 1t was knocked down, and the bull proceeded on it's way. It turned up Broadway again, and in front of the l Hoffman House a policeman shot at it Wltnout eHccI At IWenty-hfth street ] the animal turned off toward Eighth 1 avenue, and on reaching the avenue it stopped, apparently exhausted. It had | paused along the route wherever it | could find pool of water, and tried to quench its thirst. It was a hornless 1 animal, and except for it's great size not | at all formidable in appearance.
 In sth avenue the crowd completely | hemmed the tired animal in. Shots were fired at it from windows as we'll as by ] policemen. Attempts were also made 1 to lasso it with clothes lines. The 1 animal, goaded by these attacks, would occasionally dash into the crowd knock ing people down and causing stam- pede. Finally the poor beast sided up against street car that had been stopped by the crowd, and as it stood panting and bleeding, an officer stepped up and gave 1t the coup de grace.
 Whom the excitement was over 1t was found that during the promiscuous shooting Emil Bachman, baker, had been wounded in the thigh and hand. He was taken to 8 hospital, where his Injuries wore pronounced dangerous.