The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-25
POLICE HUNT A WILD STEER.
Patrol Wagons Chase 1t Through
Suburban Chicago Streets.
A Bulldog Joins tho Pursuit and
Finally Goes Mad.
my Associated Press.l

CHICAGO, Sept. PA Texas steer
gave Chicago policemen wild chase
last night and caused intense excite
mont in the Stock Yards, Englewood.
Grand Crossing, Woodlawn, Hyde Park,
windsor Park and South Shore, through
r,bich IL passed in its wild career The
steer was one among a dozen carloads
NJ the widest animals that ever came
into the Stock Yards, and escaped while
baing unloaded at the pens.
Several mounted cowboys started in
pursuit, and chased 1t south until it
was lost in Englewood. Then the police
we're notified and requested to aid in the
search. The message was sent to all
South Side stations with an order to
shoot the animal on sight. officers in
several patrol wagons took up the chase,
and frequent shots and calls in the di
rection of Stony Island avenue showed
where the bovine terror was heading,
and the wagons dashed along in hot
pursuit. -
tered the precincts of Hyde Park, and
the Gathering hoofs and the rafting
wagons woke up the sleepy patrolmen,
and another call for help was made.
This time the Hyde Park wagon re-
sponded. Day began to d dawn and,
saw the animal going at gallop along
Seventy-fifth 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
making a direct line for 1t. The men
blew their whistles and attracted the
attention of the child which, seeing
its danger, ran screaming into a yard.
The steer then kept on Bond avenue
and turned into South Shore, Here
Il
directly in it's path. Not hesitating a
moment, the steer lowered its head and
made charge.
The policemen drew their revolvers
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
out and prepared to ambush the enemy.
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 a
tree and Immediately made a charge
and the antics of O'Keefe and the steer
distracted the minds of the other men
SO they could not shoot
O'Keefe played hide and seek with
the steer until he could get a chance, to
run, when he lodged behind another
tree, Then all the men opened fire and
before they laid the enc enemy low. Here
came in 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 it
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
a deathlike grip. A half dozen bullets
in it's head made 1t 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
something for his pains he took out his
knife and neatly dressed the animal
and hung 1t up on a tree. He went
back with an express wagon and took
the beef to a meat market in Irondale
1t will be distributed to-day among the
men who assisted in the capture.