Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-05-17
A MAD ELECTRIC EEL.
The Creature Got Frantic and Caused Ter
 in the Market.

The Creature Got Frantic and Caused Ter.
 TOT in the Market.
 A ferocious eel attacked a crowd of people in Center Market the other day. The furious fish created panic, but fortunately no lives were lost. The police were called out, and responded promptly, but fortunately the intense excitement subsided.
 At one of the large fish booths in Center Market the other afternoon speekled trout were swimming in the aquarium, large-eyed codfish were yawning on the counter, catfish were winking and blink 1ng. and delicate perfume of maelzerel pervaded the air. Bon yivants were buying salmon and black bass, boarding house keepers were purchasing halibut and sturgeon, while porgies and herring were selling like hot cakes,
 A large box of fish, which just ar rived from Savannah, was brought to the booth and opened. It was full of rare southern fish packed in ice
 "What fine fish said lady, with market basket on her arm
 At this moment an eel raised his head from the box and calmly looked around at the spectators. He was an electric eel, and the crowd thought that his eyes glittered like two incandescent lights Every one stepped back in as tonishment.
 Then the eel began to get angry. The spectators declared that his eyes snapped and some said that they blazed. 1a Inc, aI 4la angrier he got. At last he wriggled out of the box, jumped to the floor and charged on the crowd of spectators The cells blood was up Every one turned and ran Ladies screamed and sought refuge on chairs and boxes A red-faced man weighing two hundred pounds stood on fish counter with one foot on a ma.kerel and the other on halibut, and shouted for help.
 The electric eel got fairly frantic with rage. He ran hither and thither. like wild bull at a bull fight glaring at the frightened spectators with his incandescent eyes. Two or three bold clerks made a desperate charge and one of them grabbed hold of the eel He received a violent electric shock and fell over against fish barrel. He estimated that the eel was charged with about eighteen hundred volts of electricity. The eel seemed to have continuous current of electricity strong enough to light small city like Ho- bollen.
 The eel felt that he owned the mar ket, and he charged right and left like a bull in china,shop. He was almost as destructive as trolley street car.
 ''l have it. said red-faced man, who was standing on the mael1erel and halibut .'Fhe reason that we can't catch the eel is that we are not insu- lated The electricity in that eel is about four times as strong as that sup piled to the electric chair at Sing Sing. Let some one put on pair of rubber gloves. "
 That's wisdom" said every body. ''If that eel keeps tearing about here much longer none of us will ever leave the market alive"
 A courageous clerk put on pair of rubber gloves and attacked the eel It made the spectators think of the com bat between St George and the dragon. The struggle was thrilling. At last the clerk grasped the eel firmly with both hands In vain the electric eel tried both the continuous and the in. termittent current The brave clerk lifted the rampant, living dynamo from the floor. dropped him into gold fish jar, and placed a wire net over the top of it. The eel was four and one-hah feet long. Then the spectators re- gained their presence of mind and went awav.-N. Y. Journal
 
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