The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-25
RESET BY WOLVES.
VOTING EXPERIENCE OF A
NEBRASKA RANCHMAN.
\. Door of the Lambs House
was Open and the Wolves
: Entered A Terrific En-
counter Ensued.
ANCE BUTTERFIELD.

richer to-day than he was
last week by the possession of
ome dozen wolf.skins and an exciting
xperience with the animals they
r,oipally covered, with about twenty
,ore thrown in to make good measure,
ri,es the Gordon (Neb.) CORE.
pondent of the Galveston News.
Situated about 800 yards from his
nsin dwelling house is roofed.in
lola. where are placed at night the
kbeep having little ones. and this fold
Is Intrusted to the care Of a boy named
Ezekiel. But it happened that Zehiel's
oung affections are placed on n
{,ciahbor's buXom daughter, aud it
WAS whlc thinking deeply of the
fascinating damsel, enjoying in antici
bation the evening with her, that
Kekiel forgot 10 secure the door of
his place. tie was still absent when
Hlr. Butterield was awakened by his
lie. who declared there was some
Dnp in the ''iambs' house" as It is
ll,cd.
The ranchman was prepared to dis
br.c this with the lady, when series
l., suspicious sounds ceusci him to
|rring quickly from his bed. These
rouuds were of several sheep. and the
Young being caught by the throat, the
sstiicl and choked as If cruel
Em,ch killed i! before it was well given
biith to. Mr.. Buttertield threw open
the window and called for Ezekiel. and
fece,vng no answer, dressed himself
Wrricdly, and sei2ing his revolver
iaedc for the s?ot.
There was moon Just going down,
| but 1t gave sufficient light TO show him
that the door was partly open, and on
approaching still nearer, that the
fheep were huddled together in terror
of score of dark objects almost Ar
large as montb-old calves which were
running about the fold, pulling down
mother sheep here or devouring
some tender lambling there.
At first Mr.. Butterfield could not
distinguish what these creatures were,
but took them for dogs Convinced,
however, that whatever they were, he
was justified in preventing the
slaughter of his poor sheep, he drew
his pistol and discharged it at the
nearest, when his shrll yelp told him
that these marauders were wolves, and
wolves of the large, ferocious, gray
variety. He fired again and again, ,
wolf falling at every shot.
The robbers then tried to run out o.
the door, but the ranchman determined
on revenge and closed the only exit
and continued firing But finding
th3mselves trapped. Il animals
w Httarh ~ wha'
was about to happen, flew at him will
such force rs to cause him to staggel
back against the wall. His pistol wa,
now empty and he was only able Il
defend himself from his bloodthirst,
foes 10y knocking about him with the
butt end of the weapon. They tor,
Mt his limbs, but poorly covered by ,
pair of light boots that he had drawn
on IN coming out, and his feet ant
lower legs were soon bleeding freely
while the sharp fangs of the animals
found the bone itself often under tn,
lacerated flesh.
Mr.. Buttertield shouted loudly (,
his wife to bring him help, but sucl
was the yelping, snarling and howlinI
in the fold that he doubted that hi
voice would reach her But she hear,
the pistol shots and the noise of tin
struggle and screamed airesh fo
Ezekiel, who by this time was approach
ing the house, whistling merrily.
Mrs. Butteriield flew out 90 NEE
him and informed him of what ha,
happened and gave him his master
gun to go to the rescue. Nearing tn
fold then Zekiel heard his employer
cries for assistance and reached hin
Just in time to see an enormous NAL
wolf leap upon the exhausted man an
seize him by the throat. Mr.. Butter
field fell, with this monster clingin
to him, aud gave himself up for lost
but the boy, placing the muzzle of tn
gun to the VOLTS head, blew out hi
brains.
The door being left open by tn
newcomer, most OF the Gagged creature
escaped by it, but Ezekiel continued t
pursue them with u running fire, man
aging to kill half dozen himself. Bu
one old fellow, engaged in eating
lamb he had slain, declared war to til
knife and refused to be routed, bu
turned on Ezekiel with determinatio
to kill or be killed right there. Tn
boy fred upon him, tearing open hi
side and sending the blood all abou
the fold, but the big wolf gave Il
token of fright and rushed at his enem
with a furious yell. Ezekiel fired agair
but the ball went far over the ere,
ture's head, and before he could ali
again the wolf had pinned him dowr
In falling the boy struck his hea
against the door-sill, and for sewers
minutes was too dazed to take an
further part in the combat. The wo
bent his head to worry the remains, {
he thought, but Mr.. Butterfeld, craw
ing toward the two, secured Ezekiel
gun and put couple of shots in I'll
animals body, but did not kill him, 1