Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-08-28
A DESOLATE SCENE.
AN INDIAN VILLAGE oEpoPULATEo BY
A MAN EATING TIGER.

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The Inhabitants of a Native village Driven
From Their Homes by tho rcrocious par
Ing Of Hold and Bioodthirsty ruler Of
the Jungiea
As the party Of q sahib one Indian even
ing came down tho hillside by tho widen.
ing path TO tho Jungle village. no sound
whatever arose from its few and humble
habitntions. Nobody came out to mako
palutntiou or 10 oiTcr supplies. No cat.
tie were perceived wandering about, no
children, no birds. except indeed many
MIXTURES upon tho tree In the square aud
upon the tcmple roof Tho pots In tho
grain dealers shop were empty and over
turncd piece Of cloth just begun was
left with broken threads upon tho loom
IN the next hut On the other side OF tho
way tho chnttlea nt pottor'B were tuin.
bed and broken. and sheet Of copper
lay at tho blacismith's forge half bent to
mako some vessel, but prccipitatcly aban
doned. Wherever one gazod thcru were
signs Of hasty flight on tho part Of tho
inhabitants. who did not Bccm TO have
left anybody TO represent them.
Yes. there was one silent and melan-
choly representative. and the sudden APP
penranao Of hcr would have startled tho
party very much moro than II did but
for discovery made by the sahib's
ghorawallah-tho groom CLOSE by tho
silent und empty tomplc There was q
muddy patch there In the square from
which the last OF tho rainwator had but
recently dried up. and In the blackslimo
so left wcro deeply imprinted tho "puds'
OF an evidently immense tiger II was
Of course evident now to tho English
man and those with him that tho striped
terror which loft those fuoimarl,s had
given tho villagers notice to quit and
was somewhere or other near at hand
In practical possession Of tho fee simple
of the village
Desolato Lcyond expression was tho
little unpcoplcd place Of tho hamlet,
and tho look OF the helpless red god
staring from his pJrtico upon the huts
that he could not protect, and the ex.
citemont OF horrible yultures peTchod
on the cotton trees, aware. no doubt, Of
the deadly secret Of the place. for round
the corner. by tho dyors shop, whore
two or three newly stained turban cloths
still hung upon walls 10 dry, they came
upon that secret. Across the threshold
Of mud hut. evidently dragged OH
from tho brokOn charpoy on tho oarthen
floor. lay the body of woman. torn on
the delicate brown neck aud along the
shoulders and breast with long red claw
marks. A dead infant, also mangled by
n savage bite. lay half concealed under
tho corpse. the appearance Of the bodies
showing that they had only been lately
killed.. No ono could doubt what had
killed Thorn. Tho sign manual upon
their bodies was surely that Of tho royal
beast who often In this way disputes tho
right of hishuman rival in India and roars
10 scorn tho illusion that man Is master
OF created things.
The sahib's party was badly equipped
for tiger shooting and passed not with
out anxiety and tho closing up OF tho
three or -four servants and coolies through
tho outslSirts Of tho evicted village. p,
any moment her ladyship the tipess OF
his loriship tho tiger, who had taken
possession VI the place. might emery,
from grain store or COW pen, or even
from some milk bush or jowari patch, C
ask tho travolors what business they had
upon the royal property. Tho English
man hastily put bullets into both barreli
OF his shotgun aud walked his horse a.
quickly ~ his men could follow out Of
the III faiod gaum.
At its outskirts they were astonished
10 hear voice high above their head'
which came, as thoy aftorward found
from young Hindoo low caste man sit
ting concealed In the branches OF largi
mango tros from which could be- seer
both entrances Of tho village. He had
mado a rude platform In fork Of III,
tree and watched on II with the Ions
barrel OF n matchbox protruding and by
his sido an oarthen jar Of water, The!
invited him 10 como down and to tel
them tho meaning Of the extraordinary
spectacle they had witnessed. lie de
seer dod and informed thom that 70
mo u past his village had been infesteD
and rseCutsd by "A tigress which, afto
killir cattle and goats, had slain an
partl eaten three or four children out
side tho hamlet and had taken durin
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tho village at night and carrying oi
somebody or other sleeping, as the Hin
docs do. outside their huts under th
yornndas. The woman slain that morn
ing with hor baby was tho wife OF III
poor matchbox man, and he had pcrchc
himself in tho tree hoping 20 nyengo he
death when the sahib's party passed.
II was too serious a case not TO DO r
ported in the proper quarters, and q
expedition OF practicod tiger shooter
was equipped among the officers ut Il
nearest station, The beast was trackt
and was killed after receiving II bu
Iets, and then 1t turned ont that Il
had half grown cub which had lost
limb, and thus the maternal affection
tho forocious parent had driven it
these desperate ways Indeed the spe
taole Of that village was full Of phil