Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-09-26
HORRIBLE FATE.
RAvENOUS WILD BEASTS ARE
TURNED LOOSE.
A Little Child Torn to Pieces and
Devoured.
A Scene OF Horror That Beggars
Description.

LONDON, September 30. = Mail ad-
vices from Kimberly, South Africa,
tell OF an awful occurrence there
at midnight on June last. Some vicious
person or persons opened the doors OF tho
cages in Fills menagGie containing the
wild animals and set them all free. The
most terrible scenes followed. Four at
tendants sleeping on the promises were
mangled beyond recognition, being actually
torn limb from limb, bitten and gashed in
the most sickening manner, while the en-
tire population within radius of a mile
was aroused by the roar Of the lions, the
trumpeting of the elephants, the growls
and shrieks of the leOpards, chetahs, jack
ais and frightened horses
Four enormous male lions, Pasha, Abb
dull, Caliph. and Mustapha, sprang from
their cages and made for the stables, where
Pasha jumped upon the back of Murat, the
great jumping stallion, and buried his
teeth in the animals neck. The screams Of
the horses attracted the attention of a
Scotchman named Patterson and three
Kaffir boys, who, armed with stable forks,
rushed TO the relief of Murat. From the
dying words of one Kaffir, who was tho
only one able 10 speak when found it was
learned that they had rushed to uhspeaka-
BILE torture and met fearful death. He
and his mates endeavored to beat Pasha
back, when they were attacked in the rear
by three lions and one chetah. They were
thrown TO the ground, their arms and legs
bitten and torn off, their bodies mangled
and torn open, their bones smashed into
bits, and, with the exception of the single
Kaffly, their heads crushed into pulp.
The one man who lived just long enough TO
tell the story was without arms or legs and
his body was a mass of decorations.
Having tasted blood. the lions. chetahs,
wolves and leopard seemed to regain all
their natural ferocity and sprang at every
thing that came in their way. -Four per-
forming Hungarian horses, of which the
equine beauty, Black Bess, was one of the
number, were killed almost instantly, and
a number of ponies were devoured An
enormous elephant known as Blood burst
through the heavy iron gate in his fright
and rushed into Curray street, followed by
nearly every animal that was in the me-
nagerie. A cabman named Nelson was
sitting on his cab before the building, ap-
palled by the uproar within, but not sup
posing the beasts could escape beyond the
walls. Suddenly, as he describes il. he
saw the animals come forth in perfect
volume of ferocity, first the elephant loud
ly trumpeting, closely followed by a writh-
ing, snarling mass Of lions, hyenas, jaclals,
balloons and every other quality of brute.
Nelson sprang for post that supports
an awning around Glover's athletic bar and
climbed into safety, while his horse dashed
down the Dustoitspan road, snorting with
fear, and closely pursued by two lions and
four wolves. The remainder of the wild
animals distributed themselves in every di-
rection.
A little child OF James Grindley, happen
ing TO be in rear room opening on the
garden, was bounced upon by a chctah and
dragged into the open air, where the agon-
lied mother saw it torn to pieces and de-
voured without any power to help it,
Others and equally narrowing incidents
are reported, among which is the killing of
five women, who were fearfully manglcd.
When the mails left there were at large
four lions, two lionesses, two tigers, three
bears. four wolves, one hyena, two chetahs,
one elephant, one camel, and IL balloons.
The police had been organized into hunting
parties, and the town was in condition Of
siege.