The evening world., 1894-09-25
POLICE HUNT A WILD STEER.
Patrol Wagons Chase 1t Through
Suburban Chicago Streets.
Bulldog Joins the Pursuit and
Finally Goes Mad.

CHICAGO, Sept. PA Texas steer
ave Chicago policemen wild chase
40, night and caused intense excite
Int in the Stock Yards, Englewood,
crand Crossing, Woodlawn, Hyde Park,
Hy,dsor Park and South Shore, through
rn,cn II passed in its wild career. The
.,oer was one among a dozen carloads
:, the widest animals that ever came
,r,o the stock Yards, and escaped while
,slng unloaded at the pens.
Several mounted cowboys started In
,nrsuIt. and chased 1t south until 1t
,as lost in Englewood Then the police
rere notified and requested to aid in the
aarch. The message was sent to all
south Side stations with an order to
moot the animal on sight. Officers In
.sveral patrol wagons took up the chase,
md frequent shots and calls in the di-
action of Stony Island avenue showed
there the bovine terror was heading,
md the wagons dashed along in hot
pursuit u.,. -,
tered the precincts of Hyde Park, and
the Gathering hoofs and the rafting
wagons woke up the sleepy patrolmen,
and another call Tor heip was uaso made de
sponded. Day began to dawn, and,
bred and worn out, the police finally
saw the animal going at a gallop along
seventy-iifth street and turn down
Bond avenue. :,
They started in pursuit, and as they
turned down Bond avenue they saw a
little child in the street and the animal
blew their whistles and attracted the
attention of the child, which, seeing
IFS danger, ran screaming into yard.
The steer. then kept on Bond avenue
stood the South Chicago patrol-wagon
directly in its path. Not hesitating a
moment, the steer lowered its head and
made a charge.
and began firing, while the driver turned
the horses and drove into the woods; In
the melee Sergt. .Cooney lost his helmet
and several OF the policemen lost their
nerve. When the wagon reached the
shelter. of the woods the policemen got
Policemen McCauley. Beilfuss and Trad
ley into the animal, but the latter had
caught sight OF Policeman O'Keefe' s
red head sticking out from behind
tree and Immediately made charge
distracted the minds Of the other men
90 they could not, shoe IA,
O'Keefe played hide and seek with
rum run when he lodged Behind another
tree. Then all the men opened fire and
at close range fired one hundred shots
before they laid the enemy low. Here
came in a curious part of the chase.
Residents of Windsor Park and South
Shore had witnessed the chase and they
turned out on foot and In carriages to
assist. A butcher had set his bull dog
on the trail early In the game. and 1t
had hung on. When. the steer was
killed the bull dog suddenly went stark
mad and, frothing at the mouth, seized
horse by the throat and held on with
deathlike grip. half dozen bullets
in its head made IT release its hold and
the horse, terribly lacerated, was led
away to be killed.
Lieut.. Wagner had once been a
butcher, and thinking he ought to have
some thing for his palms he took out his
knife and neatly dressed the animal
and hung II up on a tree. He went
the beef to a meat market la I-andala
In will be distribuueaL ie day among the
men who assisted in the capture.